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The following post just appeared on Laurence Matson's FB page:
Dear friends of Laurence Dalrymple Matson,I have been tasked by the Matson family to post here a formal announcement of his death in Hartland, Vermont on the Ides of March 2023. Mother Nature was gunning for him, it seemed. The hills above Woodstock received 2 feet of snow, nearby Dartmouth, NH just three inches. The nor'easter knocked out power for three days. With no electric power, hence no internet, and the solar panels buried under snow, Laurence was keeping the house and stables running with a gas-fired generator. He telephoned from a neighbor's who had a fireplace, on Tuesday, in the late afternoon, but could not be persuaded to stay there overnight. There were horses to care for, and water lines to protect. Betsy Wing gave him a sandwich and some soup, because he got so involved in these farm-projects that he forgot to eat. He hiked downhill through deep snow and stopped to text a photograph (!!) of the wild turkeys in the driveway. "Heading out" it said. He was found by a neighbor on Thursday morning. The autopsy said, "storm-related accidental death due to carbon monoxide poisoning." His beloved mistress, Winter, had summoned. We are heart-broken. He loved life so fiercely. He adored his children, Marie Fleur and Laurent. He was a friend for life, a reliable neighbor, an entertaining story-teller, often at his own expense, an educator who generously shared lessons hard-learned. He carried with him a "tragic sense of life." He wanted to be buried on his mountainside in Switzerland. There will be a gathering of friends here in Hartland, VT when the weather breaks and we can be together outside. Some of his ashes will be buried at Earlham College, his spiritual home in America. No date has yet been set. Finally, the rest of his ashes will go to the family home he built facing the Hasliberg.A permanent online obituary will be posted at cabotfh.com and we encourage you to leave remembrances and comments there. The family will close the FB account in a month or so.
Sincerely, Carin Pacifico
This has filled in a lot of gaps for me and I'm very grateful to Carin for posing it on FB.
I have posted it here because I know that not all forum members are on Facebook.
Dear friends of Laurence Dalrymple Matson,I have been tasked by the Matson family to post here a formal announcement of his death in Hartland, Vermont on the Ides of March 2023. Mother Nature was gunning for him, it seemed. The hills above Woodstock received 2 feet of snow, nearby Dartmouth, NH just three inches. The nor'easter knocked out power for three days. With no electric power, hence no internet, and the solar panels buried under snow, Laurence was keeping the house and stables running with a gas-fired generator. He telephoned from a neighbor's who had a fireplace, on Tuesday, in the late afternoon, but could not be persuaded to stay there overnight. There were horses to care for, and water lines to protect. Betsy Wing gave him a sandwich and some soup, because he got so involved in these farm-projects that he forgot to eat. He hiked downhill through deep snow and stopped to text a photograph (!!) of the wild turkeys in the driveway. "Heading out" it said. He was found by a neighbor on Thursday morning. The autopsy said, "storm-related accidental death due to carbon monoxide poisoning." His beloved mistress, Winter, had summoned. We are heart-broken. He loved life so fiercely. He adored his children, Marie Fleur and Laurent. He was a friend for life, a reliable neighbor, an entertaining story-teller, often at his own expense, an educator who generously shared lessons hard-learned. He carried with him a "tragic sense of life." He wanted to be buried on his mountainside in Switzerland. There will be a gathering of friends here in Hartland, VT when the weather breaks and we can be together outside. Some of his ashes will be buried at Earlham College, his spiritual home in America. No date has yet been set. Finally, the rest of his ashes will go to the family home he built facing the Hasliberg.A permanent online obituary will be posted at cabotfh.com and we encourage you to leave remembrances and comments there. The family will close the FB account in a month or so.
Sincerely, Carin Pacifico
This has filled in a lot of gaps for me and I'm very grateful to Carin for posing it on FB.
I have posted it here because I know that not all forum members are on Facebook.
