Hi all, I just heard about this (Facebook post from Lisa Cannon about her sister Dale) and thought it should go on our Memorials section.
[my sister...] Dale Cannon MacQueen passed away in the arms of her loving husband Tom on October 26, 2022 at their home in Woodstock, CT. Dale was born on March 11, 1951, in Jersey City, NJ, the eldest of four girls, and spent her early years in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Her family moved to Darien, CT when Dale was in high school and she graduated from Darien High School in 1969.
She went on to graduate from the University of Connecticut (UConn), earning both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. While studying at UConn, Dale met fellow student Tom MacQueen during an ultimate frisbee match. They became best friends and married on October 11, 1980 next to a pond in the woods near their home in Ashford, CT, with family and friends in attendance. Dale and Tom bought their first house on Quasset Lake, in Woodstock, where they have resided since 1983. Seeing the lake and the surrounding foliage and wildlife from their house and porch overlooking the water brought Dale much pleasure throughout her life.
Their daughter, Kyle Linn MacQueen, was born in the spring of 1985.
Dale spent the first years of her career as a dietician at Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam, CT. She later made a career change as an educator and became an instructor at Data General Corporation, one of the first minicomputer firms of the late ‘60s. Dale later acquired her teaching certification and held long-term teaching assignments at Woodstock Middle School and Woodstock Academy. The flexibility of these roles allowed her to attend all of Kyle’s sporting events throughout middle and high school; she loved watching and cheering for her daughter. Before retiring in 2016, Dale spent the last 15 years of her career as a Tutor at The Rectory School, a private boarding school, in Pomfret, CT, where she also helped coach the Cross Country and Track and Field teams. Dale was devoted to her students from around the world, and made many lasting friendships with her students and their families.
Dale enjoyed reading (especially mysteries), playing guitar, gardening, and was a huge animal lover, always enjoying the company of dogs and cats in her home throughout her life. She especially relished vacations with Tom in Mexico, as well as visiting family in California, Pennsylvania (where she had fond memories of childhood camp), North Carolina, New Hampshire, and Norway. She was preceded in death by her parents Linn and Joe Cannon.
She was beloved and is survived by her husband, Tom MacQueen, her daughter Kyle Feldman (William), grandson Landon, her three sisters: Page Cannon (Jeanne North), Hope Brown (Doug), and Lisa Nelson (Mark), and also three nephews and many cousins.
A memorial celebration of life will be held at a later date. Gagnon and Costello https://gagnonandcostellofh.com/ is handling arrangements. In lieu of flowers or gifts, the family requests that memorial contributions in Dale’s honor may be directed to the Environmental Defense Fund.
A side note about the tainted water at the NCO CLUB. ALL MY DRINKS WERE WHISKEY AND WATER. JUST AS GOOD AS RAISEN BREAD WE BOUGHT IN NAM. AT LEAST UNTIL WE FOUND THE RAISINS WERE ACTUALLY FLIES THAT FLEW IN THE DOUGH NEVER ARE RAISEN BREAD AGAIN THE LITTLE WINGS GOT CAUGHT IN MY TEETH
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In 1970 to 71 I was exposed to Agent Orange and suffered from SKIN problems for over 50 years. I was sent to Camp Lejeune where I was with Lima 3/6. Now I find out I may have been poisoned by the water. Some things just keep on giving
You might remember me from working at Linden Cleaners in the summer of 1969. I'm so very sorry to hear of the health challenges you are facing! You will be in my prayers for healing and strength.
Sad news about Steve. Will never forget the great speech he gave when running for Class President. His opening was "There is a smell in this school. The smell of apathy." May he rest in peace.
Dennis Quinn lost his battle with cancer Friday morning. May he rest in peace. Friends and family, there will be a brief visitation at Cyril F. Mullins Funeral Home in Trumbull from 12-1 pm on Wednesday March 23. We will then have a private blessing at 1 pm. Cards/flowers can be sent to our home at 13 Holbrook Street, Ansonia, 06401. We are also encouraging donations to Boys Town, a charity that Dennis supported throughout his adult life. Click to contribute
Russ Wadhams and I were roomates in Fort Greene Brooklyn 1972-3. We later lived a few blocks from each other in the West Village on the fringe of the wild-west meat packing district and saw a great deal of each other into the 70's. Russ was an industrious, cultured, and private man, holding his own in that great era of downtown. One night I took a deep breath and dragged him to see the Ramones and he loved every minute.
Just read that New Canaan lost 90% power. I have a pack of "D" cell batteries I can give them (at cost of course). I can't believe I will be 70 next week. What the hell happened.
And a reminder that Class of 69 has the record for the most beers consumed for our skipday at Pound Ridge. A record which I tried to keep with my 4 years in the Marines of which I only remember 3 years
In additon to their high academic rating, how about the level of atheletic accomplishments of DHS? Pretty great for a town of that size. Since New Canaan and Greenwich, relatively comparably populated towns, are also high up both lists what's the deal with Fairfield County? Something in the water? Impressive stats by any measurement.
On a side note, bigs thanks to Heuvel for his excellent work maintaining this site. He still has the Spirit of '69!
Hope everyone's OK during this nightmare of a Twilight Zone episode. A douchebag on the other side of the world eats a bat and the world takes a shit. Breathe carefully!!
'Made a quick trip to the market yesterday, too, for chicken, brocoli and TP. When I got home I discovered that the brocoli was actually jelly donuts. Hate it when that happens.
With my diet going in the tank hanging near the kitchen, I went to the store and bought the healthiest stuff I could find - broccoli, strawberries, carrots, bananas, etc and made a delicious smoothie!
I only know of one friend in Fairfield who has contracted covid-19. She is not a classmate of ours and believes she caught the virus on a flight from the west coast. Some guy sneezed all over her. She reported that covid is much worse than the flu, very high temp, difficulty breathing....even some hallucinations. She has now recovered but is exhausted and her lungs still hurt.
John;
I hope everyone in our class is Ok with this pandemic. Have you had any word of anyone having the Covid-19. I hope all is well. We can't afford to lose any more classmates.
Jim
For those who are asking if any of our classmates have had Covid-19. The answer is, yes, Penny Fox has been quite ill from the virus. She is recovering, but it has been a very long "storm" (her words).
Took advantage of AM "senior shopping hours" to pick up some groceries today. This particular market was not allowing customers to bring their reusable bags into the store. Instead, they've gone back to supplying free paper bags at checkout. Smart move. Then, at the liquor store they weren't even allowing people into the shop. They'd set up a table at the front door, took your order and brought it out to you and you paid out front. Glad I knew what I wanted (Boon's Farm '69) and didn't have to browse.
It's always a pleasure to bask in the afterglow of a huge gulp of the difficult to find Boone's Farm. Particularly the '69 vintiage. Exquisite!! 99/100 from Wine Spectator.
Enjoy, Patti and Craigbo!! You're lucky quarantined DHS grads! I'm green with envy, not COVID-19 (so far)!
Holy crap ... I knew that Boone's Farm was in the 90s, but a 99? That's better than my go-to alternative when my packy is out of Boone's: Kickapoo '32 - hints of boysenberry and carmelized kumquats, with a touch of road tar on the finish.
Oh PShaw! Floral essence and road tar are so yesterday. Gimme the new Boone's Reserva with dog peed road slurry....cloudy and crunchy. Or, the very rare and desirable Yocumberry Tonic. Fuiltered through wool socks, it has the organic backcountry fragrance of toe jam and mildew on the nose.
'Just spoke with my cousins in Sacramento. Prolific travellers, they are busy undoing /redoing their travel plans for the rest of the year. They report that rescheduling has been, generally, easy and trouble-free. However, one snag seems to occur when rescheduling hotel accomodations. Some establishments have required an automatic 'upgrade' to honor a reschedule. FYI.................Bye for now. Gotta go wash my reuseable grocery bags.
This is the first time in recent memory that it is St. Patrick's Day and I don't a big corned beef cooking on the stove. Not by choice, I assure you. I could find one! I made one last search yesterday and came up empty again. In fact, I couldn't find any chicken or eggs either. Whole shelves were empty. Happy St. Patrick's Day from 'Twilight Zone'.
Whole thing is weird. Stop and Shop is letting us 'old timers' (over 60) shop by ourselves from 6 - 7:30 am. With the market going down, I'll need food stamps!
OK....so, now that we're spending lots of quality time at home, we've got more time to catch up with classmates. 'Just heard from Tigger Smith from Aspen, where, I guess, the virus numbers are really high. He said that his family is 'self isolating' and that it seems to be going 'OK'. It seems hard to imagine. More soon.......................
Best wishses to Coach Trifone but really am going to miss watching his teams play. Are there any replacements being considered? Any Marinellis interested?
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You might remember me from working at Linden Cleaners in the summer of 1969. I'm so very sorry to hear of the health challenges you are facing! You will be in my prayers for healing and strength.
nee Penny Fox
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