Springfield Union-News, Springfiled MA, 1999-5-18

Marie T. Packard, at 85;
former area teacher

     DEARBORN, Mich. - Marie (Schroeder) Lake Thomas 
Packard, 85, of Henry Ford Retirement Village, a former
Western Massachusetts teacher, died at home on March
28.
     She taught at Williamsburg (Mass.) High School for 15
years and retired in 1971.  She taught previously in the
Chesterfield (Mass.), Hampden (Mass.) and Warrenton 
(Va.) school systems.  She also ran a private kindergarten
in the Haydenville section of Williamsburg in the early 1950s.
     Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she lived in Haydenville, Goshen 
and Williamsburg from 1950 to 1982, when she moved to
Fort Pierce, Fla.  She attended the Calhoun School in New
York, was a 1935 graduated of Sweet Briar College and
studied at the University of Munich, Germany.
     She was predeceased by her first husband, Cecil Thomas,
and her second husband, Leslie H. Packard, died in 1987.
     She leaves a son, Cecil A. P. Thomas Jr. of Canton; a
daughter Sarah E. Thomas of Ithaca, N.Y.; a stepson, Ronald
L. Packard of Salem, N.H.; a stepdaughter, Constance
(Packard) Allen of Providence, R.I.; a sister, Jeannette Green
of Hampden; seven grandchildren; and three great-grand-
children.
     There will be a memorial service Saturday morning in
Prospect Hill Cemetery, Hampden, and in Village Hill Ceme-
tery, Williamsburg, on Sunday afternoon, followed by a recep-
tion at Williamsburg Congregational Church.
     Memorial contributions may be made to the Meekins
Library Fund, Williamsburg, MA.

There is no DEATH NOTICE.