Lillian Chick
1926-2019
Lillian Chick, 92 of Rochester, NH, passed away peacefully Thursday, July 18, 2019.
Lillian was born to Joseph & Lena Mahan on October 16, 1926, in Lancaster, NH.
She attended a one room school house in Stewart's Town, NH and moved to Rochester in 1944. She worked as a fancy stitcher for Hubbard Shoe Company, Mayberry Shoe Company and after the shoe industry closed, she worked for Thompson Center Arms for 28 years and retired in 1995.
She had many hobbies and excelled at cooking, painting, poetry, ceramics, crocheting, flower arranging and knitting to name a few. She had a gift for attention to detail which she brought to her work and her hobbies. One of her favorite memories was entering a painting of the farm that she grew up on in the Rochester Fair that won a first-place ribbon. Over the years she wrote numerous poems and loved telling stories of her youth and farm life with her sisters and brothers.
Lillian is survived by her beloved husband of 25 years, Sumner Chick, her...