Winona T. Nile

1930 - 2006  (76 years)

• Name	Winona T. Nile
  Born	12 Apr 1930
  Gender	Female
  Died	19 Jun 2006	Massachusetts, USA
  Person ID	I60977	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2012

  
  

  Family	Neal Eddy,   b. Abt 1928
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2012
  Family ID	F23718	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  [[ Obituary: Harvard Post, The (MA) - June 30, 2006 Deceased Name: Winona T. Eddy, 76 Winona T. Eddy, 76, of Harvard and Weston, died Monday, June 19, 2006, following a threeyear struggle with cancer. She was the wife of Neal Eddy. She studied English literature at Colby College and McGill University, and worked several years as a technical editor at the Raytheon Company before her marriage. Her somewhat unusual name means "first-born daughter" in Algonquin, and after being passed along over many generations, that name has long been presumed by the family to suggest early Amerindian blood. Her maiden name of Nile, was adopted by a branch of the family who among other things, founded the town of Rangeley, Maine. They had changed their name in revulsion from the crude jokes made regarding the family's original name of Hoar. Other members of the family, descended from a young boy, notorious for having fallen overboard from the Mayflower, and barely rescued from the icy Atlantic, went on to help found the Republican party; another early and flagrantly unsuccessful president of Harvard College was conspicuously forgotten when the Harvard Houses were being named in honor of more competent Harvard presidents with less awkward names. Before moving to Harvard some six years ago, Mrs. Eddy raised her family atop a Weston four-acre bosky drumlin, her home for some 30 years. After helping a Weston neighbor battling cancer some 30 years ago, Mrs. Eddy was invited to join Parmenter Health Services as a part-time home health aide, where her gentle sympathy helped in forming many friendships with the elderly sick of both Weston and Wayland. Her memory enabled her to out-quote and amaze any who were so bold as to inquire if she might possibly identify or recite some obscure bit of early English poetry. In addition to her husband of 49 years, she is survived by a son, Jonathan N. Eddy of Natick; two daughters, Heather E. Eddy- Klassen of Olympia, Wash., and Dr. Jennifer J. Eddy-Gideonsen of Eau Claire, Wis.; two grandsons, and her step-mother-in-law, Miriam Dalton Brown Eddy, whose ability to recall obscure English poetry nearly matches Mrs. Eddy's. A private memorial service is currently being planned.