Frances F. Hemond

Montague, Massachusetts
Frances Rosalie Field Hemond, 97, of Montague, MA, died Monday, November 27, 2017, at her family home, Cold Brook Farm, in Montague. She was the wife of the late Harold C. Hemond. She was born September 22, 1920 in Springfield, MA, attended schools in Boston and Holyoke, attained a B.A. in English from UMass Amherst (then Mass State), and did graduate work at Smith College.
Fran taught school for over 30 years, at Mystic Academy in Mystic, CT, at Pine Point School in Stonington, CT, and at NFA in Norwich, CT, retiring as a high school English teacher in 1986. Her husband HC, an electrical engineer at Electric Boat in Groton, CT, designed systems for the first American nuclear submarines. Over the years, Fran and HC lived in South Hadley, MA, Mystic, CT, and Ledyard, CT.
In 1994, they moved to Cold Brook Farm, in the Field family since 1866, where she and HC spent their remaining years. Fran wrote a column for the Montague Reporter, keeping us up to date on the "breakfast club" at her bird feeder, and on the mergansers on the pond. She was an accomplished genealogist and raconteur of family lore. Loving Grandma, pie-maker, fern connoisseur, reader of palms, she and HC celebrated the Millennium at Cold Brook with the Gang, friends from their youth and for the better part of a century.
She is survived by her two sons and their wives, Professor Harold F. Hemond and Dr. Carol Thomson of Lexington, MA, and Attorney David L. Hemond and Jackie Hemond of Suffield, CT, seven grandchildren, three great grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by two brothers, Kenneth Field of Middletown, NY, and Laurence Field of Walpole, NH. Ken's wife, Anabel Field lives in Middletown, NY.
Services will be held at Montague Center Congregational Church, Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 1 p.m. Officiating will be the Rev. Mick Comstock. Burial will follow in Locust Hill Cemetery, Montague Center. There are no calling hours. Expressions of affection in the form of a charitable contribution are preferred in lieu of flowers to either the National Park Foundation, 1111 Vermont Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, D.C., 2005 or to the Montague Common Hall, P.O. Box 223, Montague, MA 01351.

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