Annie Elizabeth Angus Cutting

SALISBURY — Annie Elizabeth Angus “Ann� Cutting, 95, died Aug. 2, 2007, at the Watrous Nursing Center in Madison, Conn., with her family present. She was the widow of Lloyd W. Cutting Sr., to whom she had been married for 52 years. He passed away in 1983.

She was born Sept. 27, 1911, on the Scoville estate in the Taconic section of Salisbury. She attended local schools and graduated from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., class of 1932. She served as class secretary for 70 years, maintaining ties with the college and her classmates.

Mr. and Mrs. Cutting moved to Southport, Conn., in 1935 and later to Fairfield, living in those towns for 37 years before retiring to Largo, Fla.  Their later summers were spent in St. George, Maine, at their cottage “Mainestay,� where they entertained family and many guests over the years. 

Mrs. Cutting  taught in the Fairfield public schools, first as a substitute, then as a full-time teacher. She also served as president of the Fairfield Education Association and eventually retired as a vice principal in 1972. 

 An accomplished pianist and organist and an avid writer, she penned musicals for school performances and three books of her life-memoirs spanning 90-plus years. In her spare time, she enjoyed reading, knitting, embroidery and painting with both watercolor and oils. 

 After the death of her husband in 1983 she moved to an apartment in Florida, then returned to Connecticut in 2003, where she took up residence in an assisted-living facility in Guilford.  Though legally blind in her later years, she remained active and kept up regular correspondence with friends and family.

An accident in 2006 required a move to the Watrous Nursing Center, where she was cared for by the attending staff, and assisted in her last days by Connecticut VNA Hospice by Masonicare.  

She is survived by the families of her three children, Lloyd Jr. and Mary Ellen Cutting of Largo, Fla., Philip Cutting of Stonington, Conn., and Jean and Leonard Russman of Madison, Conn.; six grandchildren, Jeffrey Cutting, Susan Rehnberg, Christopher Cutting, Katherine Stanley, Cynthia Holthouse and Karen McPadden; and nine great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, she was pre-deceased by her older half-brother, John Alexander Angus. 

Funeral arrangements  are under the care of the  Hawley Lincoln Funeral Home in Guilford and will be private. Interment will be beside her late husband at their beloved Mainestay.

 In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to  The Building Fund, Jackson Memorial Library, 38 Main St., Tenants Harbor, Maine 04860.