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- Record-Journal (Meriden, CT)
January 13, 2010
LOMBARD, Ill. - Margaret Denton Eaton, 96, died Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009, at the Beacon Hill Assisted Living Community.
She was born in Caribou, Maine, Jan. 18, 1913, the daughter of Ludlow and Lucy (Small) Denton.
Margaret received a bachelor's degree in Latin from the University of Maine in 1933, a master's degree in communications from Southern Connecticut State College in 1958, and a master's degree in arts and liberal studies from Wesleyan University in 1960. She married Elwood Newell Eaton, of Deer Isle, Maine, in 1936 and they lived on Long Island, N.Y., through World War II before moving back to Deer Isle in 1946. She taught at Mc Kinley High School in Deer Isle until 1957, when they moved to Wallingford. There, Margaret taught at the junior high and high school levels and before retiring served as school librarian in Berlin. After they retired in the mid-1970s, Margaret and Elwood traveled extensively throughout the United States in their motor home and had a winter home in North Fort Myers, Fla., for 20 years. They moved to Beacon Hill in Lombard, Ill., in 1999.
Margaret is survived by two daughters, Barbara Eaton, of Wheaton, Ill., and Beverly (Howard E.) Price of Salem, Ore.; seven grandchildren, Scott (Vale) Price, Amy Price, and Jennifer (Paul) Welcome, of Oregon, Cindy (Larry) Chambers, of Washington, and Lucy Ladner, John J. Ladner III, and Sarah (Maurice) Bell, of Illinois; and five great-grandchildren, Mitchell Reed Chambers, Chad Ryan Chambers and Kevin Reagan Chambers, of Washington, and Benjamin Eaton Bell and Olivia Margaret Bell, of Illinois; and several nieces and nephews. She is also survived by her dear friend and sister-in-law, Sylvia M. Eaton, of Deer Isle, Maine.
In addition to her husband and her parents, she was predeceased by her sister, Lona D. Ingraham, and her brother-in law, Albert A. Ingraham.
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