Renata L.
Gilmore, 88, of Cable Gardens, Ipswich, died Thursday August 24,
2017 in Beverly Hospital following her sudden illness.
Born in Ipswich
February 16, 1929 daughter of the late George L. and Doris M. (Estey)
Gilmore she was raised in Ipswich and was a 1947 honor graduate
of the former Whipple Memorial High School. In 1948 she was
employed by New England Telephone Company in Ipswich as an
operator until her transfer to the engineering dept. in Salem
where she became an outside plant engineer. She finished her
forty-one year career with the telephone company in March of
1989.
Renata was an
Ipswich “Townie.” She loved the town, enjoyed Crane Beach,
swimming and gardening. She loved to get her “mess” of clams as
one of the few woman recreational clammers at the time. In her
retirement Renata took up the art of water color painting and
enjoyed painting scenes of Ipswich and Cape Ann many of which
now reside with family and area buyers. Renata also
participated in “The People & Places Book” of Ipswich. Here she
shared her cherished years of growing up in her Ipswich River
neighborhood.
She was a member
of the Telephone Pioneers of America, the Ipswich YMCA and the
Guild of Beverly Artists.
Renata enjoyed
and dearly loved her surviving sister Mary V. Ross of Merrimac
and her family of five children, Barry Ross of Long Meadow, Paul
and David Ross both of Ipswich, Daniel Ross and Lucinda Ross
both of Merrimac and all their children. In addition to her
parents Renata was predeceased by a sister, Doris A. Gilmore and
brother, Alfred Estey .
Family and
friends are respectfully welcomed to visiting hours 4 to 7 pm
Wednesday, August 30 in the Whittier-Porter Funeral Home, 6 High
St., Ipswich. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions in her
name may be made to Ipswich Humane, P.O. Box 873, Ipswich, MA
01938.