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- New Hampshire Union Leader (Manchester, NH)
February 17, 2006
KITTERY POINT, Maine -- Audrey Jane Woodman, 94, of 611 Haley Road died Feb. 8, 2006, at her home.
She was born in Spokane, Wash., on Sept. 13, 1911, to Robert Flint Chandler and Harriet Clark (Loring) Chandler. The family moved to New Gloucester in 1912. She graduated from New Gloucester High School and attended Portland School of Art.
She married George M. "Billy" Woodman in 1934. They lived in Staten Island, N.Y., until moving to Hingham, Mass., where they founded The Country Loft, a reproduction tinware business.
Mrs. Woodman was a member of Historical Society of Early American Decoration and taught in Hingham and later at Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth, N.H. She also lived in Newfields, N.H., York and Big Pine Key, Fla. She moved to Kittery Point in 1992.
Mrs. Woodman was an accomplished watercolorist and had a passion for genealogy. She was a member of the Mayflower Society.
She was predeceased by her husband in 1988, and a son, George M Woodman III, in 1963.
Family includes three sons, Chandler Woodman of Thomaston, Timothy Woodman of Brookline, N.H., and Jonathan Woodman of Seabrook, N.H.; a daughter, Debby Ronnquist of Kittery Point; eight grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren; a sister, Esther E. Chandler of Hull, Mass., and many nieces, nephews, greatnieces and greatnephews.
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