Anne Tracy

Obit photo Anne Tracy

Anne Tracy died on February 17, 2023, at age 83. Anne was born in Nashua, NH, September 27, 1939, daughter of Stephen P. Tracy and Dorothy (Lougee) Tracy.

She graduated from Colby Junior College (now Colby-Sawyer College) in 1959 and Middlebury College in 1961, moving to the ancestral farm in Cornish, NH in 1965. There she farmed and bred Border Collies, Thoroughbred and Anglo-Arab horses, Suffolk and Romney sheep, Alpine goats, donkeys, and part-Siamese cats.

She was also a free-lance writer and photographer, especially at the Green Mountain Horse Association in South Woodstock, VT. She moved to Meriden, NH in 2015, where her father was born and her grandfather was headmaster at Kimball Union Academy. She was a member of the Meriden Congregational Church.

She leaves a sister, Barbara Tracy Ross of Princeton, New Jersey, and cousins. There will be no calling hours. She will be buried in the family plot in Meriden’s Gleason Cemetery in a private ceremony. A celebration of her life will be held later in the spring.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in her memory may be made to the Meriden Congregational Church, 8 Mitchell Drive, Meriden NH 03770; the Meriden Library, 22 Bean Road, Meriden NH 03770, or Kimball Union Academy, 7 Campus Center Drive, Meriden, NH 03770. Ricker Funeral Homes & Crematory of Lebanon and Enfield, NH has been entrusted with arrangements.