Ellen Sadie Frizzell

Mrs. Ellen Sadie (Jesseman) Frizzell, 86, of Columbia, New Hampshire, passed away early Tuesday morning, April 11, 2006, at the Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital in Colebrook, New Hampshire. Mrs. Frizzell was born November 1, 1919, in Sugar Hill, NH, daughter of the late Scott and Bertha (Hutchinson) Jesseman. She attended school in Canaan, Vermont, graduating in 1937, and married her late husband, Kenneth E. Frizzell, on September 16, 1939. She was primarily a homemaker, but worked at the Gilman Paper Company and in Littleton at Profile Cleaners and the Littleton Shoe Shop. Together, she and her husband owned and operated the Little Country Store in Danby Four Corners, VT, and the Brownington Country Store in Brownington, VT. She was a lifetime member of the Mohawk Grange for over 70 years, a member of the Upper Coos Pomona Grange and affiliated with the Stratford Grange. Her interests included crocheting, knitting, tatting and quilting, but her greatest joy was spending time with her family. Mrs. Frizzell is survived by two sons, Robert Frizzell and wife, Audrey, of East Charleston, VT, and Kenneth Frizzell, Jr. and wife, Grace, of East Charleston, VT; four daughters, Edie Jones and husband, Gary, of Riviera Beach, FL, Joan Henry and husband, Charles, of Claremont, NH, Carol Bolduc and husband, Henry, of Haverhill, MA, and Genie Davis and husband, Martin of East Charleston, VT; a brother, Eddie Jesseman of Haverhill, NH; twenty-one grandchildren; twenty-eight great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Mrs. Frizzell is preceded in death by her parents; her loving husband of 61 years, Kenneth E. Frizzell; a brother, Fred Jesseman; and a sister, Edith Wells. Calling hours will be held on Thursday, April 13, 2006, from 2-4 & 7-9 p.m. at the Jenkins & Newman Funeral Home in Colebrook with a Grange Service to be held Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. by the Mohawk Grange at the funeral home. A funeral service will be conducted on Friday, April 14th at 11:00 a.m. at the Trinity United Methodist Church with The Reverend Randall Scheri officiating. An interment service will be held on Saturday, June 3, 2006, at 11:00 a.m. at the Colebrook Village Cemetery.Expressions of sympathy in Mrs. Frizzell’s memory may be made to the Mohawk Grange, c/o Ann Woodard, P.O. Box 306, Colebrook, NH 03576 or to the Stratford Grange, c/o Patricia Allin, 44 Spur Road, North Stratford, NH 03590 or to the Upper Coos Pomona Grange, c/o Frances Pepau, 348 Percy Road, Stark, NH 03582.

Ellen Sadie Frizzell

November 1, 1919 - April 11, 2006