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Funeral services will be held privately.
Interment will be with her husband Bill at the Oak Grove Cemetery in West Haven, Connecticut.
Carolyn S. Stinson (nee Shutter) age 96, formerly of West Haven, CT, Wyckoff, NJ, East Orleans, MA, and Naples, FL, passed peacefully at 7:10 AM on Sunday, October 11, 2015.
Carolyn was born and raised on Martin Street, in West Haven, Connecticut where her father Earl was prominent in the town as a successful owner of the Graham Bronze Foundry. As a young girl she was proud of her cast and ivory elephant collections. She and her sister Janice enjoyed the family hunting dogs and when her father came home from hunting her mother would cook the fowl caught that day. Carolyn met her husband William A. Stinson at a young age and she went to Lasell College graduating in 1939.
Her husband Bill graduated from Brown University and the two soulmates fell deeply in love and married. Bill was a senior account executive with the AETNA Life and Casualty Insurance Company and initially the family was transferred around the country several times. Carolyn had two sons, William A. Stinson, Jr. and Drake C. Stinson. Her son Bill was born in Baltimore, Maryland and her son Drake was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They finally settled to raise their boys in Wyckoff, New Jersey in 1961 while her husband Bill worked in Manhattan, New York and they lived there for seventeen years.
Carolyn’s family has many fond memories of power boating with her husband and son Drake. Mom would have the car packed and they would leave for the marina on Friday night, early Saturday a new adventure would commence with Drake as the first mate and navigator. They visited virtually every port of call along Long Island Sound listed in the Mobil guide book including Connecticut, Long Island, Rhode Island and even Block Island and Martha’s Vineyard on Cape Cod. Their first boat was a red 27 foot Chris Craft Cavalier and the next a more seaworthy 28 foot Luhrs with a flying bridge. They would meet friends and tie up their boats together at favorite anchorages Grassy and Betts Islands in Norwalk, CT and Port Jefferson, NY.
When Drake graduated Ramapo High School in Franklin Lakes, NJ, Bill opted for early retirement and they snow birded between the home on Westwood Drive, near Nauset Beach in East Orleans, Cape Cod, Massachusetts and a home on Mentor Drive, near Wiggin’s Pass Beach, in North Naples, Florida. Carolyn and Bill enjoyed enteraining guests and playing golfing in most of their spare retirement time. After William A. Stinson passed away she continued snow birding and playing golf with her son Drake for another 10 years. As the years progressed and Carolyn needed more care, she lived with her son in Andover, NJ, and then Wantage, NJ, before settling in at the Llanfair House in Wayne, NJ where she spent the last ten years of her life.
Carolyn was a feisty, spirited person who loved spending time on the boat, beaching, painting, knitting, playing cards, playing golf, and she adored her granddaughter Sasha C. Stinson, Bill Jr’s daughter.
She was the loving wife of the late William Arthur Stinson (1988); devoted mother of Drake Christopher Stinson, her second son and his fiancé Suzanne Marshall of Blairstown, New Jersey; devoted mother of the late William Arthur Stinson, Jr. (1974), his wife Katheryn (Kit) Stinson Muldoon and cherished grandmother of Sasha Christine Stinson of Hickory, North Carolina, and dear sister of the late Marguerite Janice Shutter Grant (1987).
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be given Lasell College, Newton, MA, in memory of Carolyn S. Stinson (1939), which would be greatly appreciated.
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Funeral services will be held privately.
Interment will be with her husband Bill at the Oak Grove Cemetery in West Haven, Connecticut.
Services
Funeral services will be held privately.
Interment will be with her husband Bill at the Oak Grove Cemetery in West Haven, Connecticut.
Carolyn S. Stinson (nee Shutter) age 96, formerly of West Haven, CT, Wyckoff, NJ, East Orleans, MA, and Naples, FL, passed peacefully at 7:10 AM on Sunday, October 11, 2015.
Carolyn was born and raised on Martin Street, in West Haven, Connecticut where her father Earl was prominent in the town as a successful owner of the Graham Bronze Foundry. As a young girl she was proud of her cast and ivory elephant collections. She and her sister Janice enjoyed the family hunting dogs and when her father came home from hunting her mother would cook the fowl caught that day. Carolyn met her husband William A. Stinson at a young age and she went to Lasell College graduating in 1939.
Her husband Bill graduated from Brown University and the two soulmates fell deeply in love and married. Bill was a senior account executive with the AETNA Life and Casualty Insurance Company and initially the family was transferred around the country several times. Carolyn had two sons, William A. Stinson, Jr. and Drake C. Stinson. Her son Bill was born in Baltimore, Maryland and her son Drake was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They finally settled to raise their boys in Wyckoff, New Jersey in 1961 while her husband Bill worked in Manhattan, New York and they lived there for seventeen years.
Carolyn’s family has many fond memories of power boating with her husband and son Drake. Mom would have the car packed and they would leave for the marina on Friday night, early Saturday a new adventure would commence with Drake as the first mate and navigator. They visited virtually every port of call along Long Island Sound listed in the Mobil guide book including Connecticut, Long Island, Rhode Island and even Block Island and Martha’s Vineyard on Cape Cod. Their first boat was a red 27 foot Chris Craft Cavalier and the next a more seaworthy 28 foot Luhrs with a flying bridge. They would meet friends and tie up their boats together at favorite anchorages Grassy and Betts Islands in Norwalk, CT and Port Jefferson, NY.
When Drake graduated Ramapo High School in Franklin Lakes, NJ, Bill opted for early retirement and they snow birded between the home on Westwood Drive, near Nauset Beach in East Orleans, Cape Cod, Massachusetts and a home on Mentor Drive, near Wiggin’s Pass Beach, in North Naples, Florida. Carolyn and Bill enjoyed enteraining guests and playing golfing in most of their spare retirement time. After William A. Stinson passed away she continued snow birding and playing golf with her son Drake for another 10 years. As the years progressed and Carolyn needed more care, she lived with her son in Andover, NJ, and then Wantage, NJ, before settling in at the Llanfair House in Wayne, NJ where she spent the last ten years of her life.
Carolyn was a feisty, spirited person who loved spending time on the boat, beaching, painting, knitting, playing cards, playing golf, and she adored her granddaughter Sasha C. Stinson, Bill Jr’s daughter.
She was the loving wife of the late William Arthur Stinson (1988); devoted mother of Drake Christopher Stinson, her second son and his fiancé Suzanne Marshall of Blairstown, New Jersey; devoted mother of the late William Arthur Stinson, Jr. (1974), his wife Katheryn (Kit) Stinson Muldoon and cherished grandmother of Sasha Christine Stinson of Hickory, North Carolina, and dear sister of the late Marguerite Janice Shutter Grant (1987).
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be given Lasell College, Newton, MA, in memory of Carolyn S. Stinson (1939), which would be greatly appreciated.
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