surrounded by her family on Saturday afternoon, September 9, 2006 at the
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, after a courageous battle
with cancer.
She was born in Mitchellville, Iowa on January 21, 1923 the daughter of
Trygve and Edna (Stevens) Olson and had resided in Claremont since 1953.
She attended Iowa State College and worked to support the War effort by
working in a munitions plant. She later worked for fourteen years at the
Claremont Savings Bank in the Operations Department and retired in 1995.
In 1944 she married her high school sweetheart, Don P. Woods, who was killed
in the same year piloting a B-24 over Germany.
She was the widow of Dr. William T. Wilmot, whom she married on December 21,
1947 and he died November 22, 1985.
Mrs. Wilmot was a member of the First United Methodist Church and enjoyed
cooking and traveling and loved her family and her cat.
The surviving family includes two sons, Thomas R. Wilmot and his wife
Christine of Concord and William T. Wilmot, Jr. and his wife Nancy of
Newport; two daughters, Margaret A. and the late Rick Hall of Washington
Court House, Ohio and Susan J. Levesque Wilmot of Claremont; eight
grandchildren, Stephanie and her husband Chris Ford, Scott Levesque, Lindsey
Levesque, Brent and his wife Sara Wilmot, Allison Wilmot, Michael Wilmot,
Brian Wilmot and Jenny Wilmot; two great-grandchildren, Matthew Wilmot and
Caitlyn Ford; four brothers, Don and his wife Pauline Olson; Roger and his
wife Jo Olson, Ted and his wife Beverly Olson and Richard Olson; two
sisters, Dorothy and her husband Bob Stoll and Doris and her husband Jim
Casperson also several nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was predeceased by two brothers, Robert Olson and Marion Olson.
Friends may call at the Stringer Funeral Home, 146 Broad Street on Tuesday
evening from 6 to 8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held Wednesday morning, September 13th at Eleven
O'clock in the First United Methodist Church with Rev. Margaret Long,
Pastor, officiating.
Interment will follow at the West Claremont Burial Grounds in Union
Cemetery.
The family suggests that donations may be made in her memory to the Norris
Cotton Cancer Center, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756-0001