Born in Wilmington, VT, on June 12,1921, she was the daughter of Howard J. and Mabel (Whitney) Taylor. She grew up on the family farm in Wilmington and was a graduate of Wilmington High School. She married Paul Woffenden in Whitingham on November 23,1944. He died in 1991.
The family moved to White Creek in 1965 where they established the Maple Grove Farm. Mrs. Woffenden assisted her husband in the operation of the farm and raised their five children there. The farm is now operated by her children.
In earlier years she resided in Jacksonville and had been a lister for the town of Searsburg. She enjoyed the company of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She leaves her sons, Samuel and Ernest Woffenden, both of White Creek; daughters, Louise Atherton, of Wilmington, and Polly Niles and Mary Woffenden, both of White Creek; a sister, Edith and her husband Harry Morse, of Vernon; an aunt Beatrice Ward, of Vernon; nine grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; nieces, nephews, and cousins. She was predeceased by a brother and sister-in-law Henry and Marie Taylor and sister- and brother-in-law Mary and Vernon White.
Funeral services were held on Wednesday, April 22, at the Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home in Bennington. Burial followed in the Riverview Cemetery in Wilmington.
Should friends desire, memorial gifts in her memory may be made to the Cambridge Valley Rescue Squad in care of the Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home, 213 West Main Street, Bennington, VT 05201.
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