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Herbert Hall Kinsman, 81, of Mountain Overlook Road in Wilmot, NH died Thursday afternoon, September 29, 2005 at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon. He was born in Keene, NH on September 3, 1924 the son of Lee and Mamie (Rice) Kinsman. He graduated from Rochester High School and worked as a florist and floral designer all his life. He had resided in Wilmot, NH for the past five years and had previously lived in Jacksonville, FL for thirty-two years, in Rutland, VT and Windsor, VT. Mr. Kinsman managed Chaplin's Florist in Windsor in 1954; Hunt's Florist in Rutland in 1959 and retired in 2001 after thirty-two years as a floral designer at Kuhn Flowers in Jacksonville, FL and was currently working part-time in Claremont for Floral Design by Linda Perron. He had the ability to make flowers come alive with his hands. He loved the outdoors, gardening and always kept his lawns beautiful. The surviving family includes his wife, Madelyn (Brown) Kinsman of Wilmot; one son, David Kinsman and his wife, Helen of Rutland, VT; one step-son, Robert J. Sammon and his wife, Jeanne of Claremont; two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He was pre-deceased by one sister, Marion Blanchard. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon, October 3rd at One O'clock in the Stringer Funeral Home, 146 Broad Street, Claremont, with Rev. Margaret Long, Pastor of the First United Methodist Church, officiating. Interment will follow in Mt View Cemetery. Friends may call at the Funeral Home on Monday, from twelve noon to one o'clock, prior to the services. |