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Birth:          18 Feb 1927 Boston, Mass.
Death:          28 Apr 2015 

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Phippen's Fam Tree on ancestry
pub rec on ancestry 253 Larch Ro, Wenham, Mass.
pub rec on ancestry 253 Larch Row, Wenham, Mass.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?pid=174781869
Phippen, Susanne (LaCroix) A longtime resident of Wenham, beloved wife, mother and 
force of nature, died peacefully at her home, surrounded by loved ones on Tuesday, 
April 28, 2015. She was 88 years old. Born in Boston in 1927 to Morris F. and Esther 
H. (Paine) LaCroix, she was raised at Spooner Road, Chestnut Hill and at Beach Bluff 
Avenue in Swampscott. "Snooky" Phippen attended Windsor School in Boston and 
graduated from Smith College in 1949 and married Richard Dane Phippen in 1951. 
They moved to Wenham and built their home at Hurdle Hill Farm where they lived for 
over 60 years, and raised seven children. She cared deeply about the environmental, 
educational and cultural resources in the area. Throughout her life, she supported a 
number of non-profit organizations, but most of all she liked to participate, to organize 
and to get things done. She was active in the Wenham Village Improvement Society. 
She was a founding member of Wenham's Conservation Commission and served as 
chairman during the 1970's, after passage of the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection 
Act. She served for many years on the Board of Directors of the Trustees of 
Reservations, as a Trustee at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York and was a 
founding member and President of the Board of Trustees for Pingree School. She was 
a long-time Trustee at both the Wenham Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum, 
where she was also an enthusiastic docent. Her energy and commitment in these 
capacities were an inspiration to all who knew her. She had a strong affinity for 
natural places, and especially the northern woods, rivers and lakes of Maine and 
Quebec, the salt marshes of the North Shore and, of course, her beloved Hurdle Hill 
Farm. Family was most important her, and she strove successfully to maintain strong 
ties amongst her close and distant relations, throughout her life. Her brother, William 
LaCroix, and two sisters, Ruth LaC. Darling and Jeanne LaC. Crocker, predeceased 
her. She is survived by her husband; her sister, Edith LaC. Dabney of Chestnut Hill; 
and her brother-in-law, Nelson, J. Darling of Swampscott. She is also survived by her 
seven children, William of Wenham, Peter of Essex, Morey of Northampton, David of 
Beverly, Anne of Wenham, Henry of Beverly and Joanna of Boston; and in addition, 17 
grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and innumerable nieces, nephews, grandnieces 
and nephews. A memorial service will be held at Christ Church, 149 Asbury Street, 
Hamilton, on Thusday, May 14, at 11 a.m. Arrangements are by the Campbell Funeral 
Home, 525 Cabot Street, BEVERLY. Memorial contributions to the Wenham Museum 
would be appreciated (Wenham Museum, 132 Main Street, Wenham, MA 01984). A 
memorial service will be held at Christ Church in Hamilton on May 14 at 11 a.m. 
Information, online condolences at www.campbellfuneral.com.

Published in The Boston Globe on May 5, 2015

Parents
LACROIX Morris Felton ()
PAINE Esther Humphrey ()

Siblings
LACROIX Susanne (18 Feb 1927 - 28 Apr 2015)

Marriage To PHIPPEN Richard Dane (18 Jul 1918 - )
    m. 1951 Brookline, Mass.

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Parents
PHIPPEN Henry Osgood (2 Sep 1885 - 2 Sep 1949)
DANE Edith Whipple (1885 - 1978)

Children by PHIPPEN Richard Dane 18 Jul 1918 - 
PHIPPEN Edith Morey ("Morey") ()
PHIPPEN William ()
PHIPPEN Peter D. ()
PHIPPEN David Osgood ()
PHIPPEN Anne W. ()
PHIPPEN Henry ("Hank") ()
PHIPPEN Joanna L. ()

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