from the February 23, 1998 issue of The Country Chronicle
Enfield, NH–Frances Helen Sears, 87, died Friday February 13, 1998 at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. She was born in Springfield, NH, May 9, 1910, the daughter of the late George Alfred & Lottie Ellen (Osborne) Grace, Sr. She was married Oct. 30, 1941 to Joseph Hurshell Sears who passed away May 10, 1979. Frances had worked at the Smith Mica Shop in Canaan, NH; made flowers and sewed doll clothes at home; worked at H.W. Carter’s overall shop in Lebanon for 16 years; and sewed for the Hanover Inn and the Hanover Terrace. She loved gardening, painting pictures, making quilts, doing things for others; and she dearly loved her family. She was a warm, caring, loving person and never had a bad word to say about anybody.
Survivors include: a son, Joseph Hurshell Sears, Jr., Enfield; 2 daughters, Frances (Sears) Lassen, Enfield, Lottie (Sears) Shippen, Enfield; 4 brothers, Elmer Grace, Danbury, NH, Elwin Grace, Orange, NH, Donald Grace, Campton, NH, George Grace, Jr., Canaan, NH; 2 sisters, Doris Crate, East Plainfield, NH, Evelyn Bentley, Bradenton, FL; and many nieces and nephews.
Frances is preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Hurshell Sears; her father George Alfred Grace, Sr.; her mother, Lottie Ellen (Osborne) Grace; a grandson, Jody Sears, Sr.; 3 brothers, Alfred Grace, Wesley Grace, Howard Grace; 2 sisters, Bertha Withington and Hazel Reed.
Burial will be in the spring at the Wells Cemetery in Canaan, NH. Arrangments were made by the Ricker Funeral Home in Lebanon, NH.