LANCASTER - Betty-Anne Sunderman, 94, of Whitefield died after a short illness on Friday December 12, 2014 at Weeks Medical Center.
Mrs. Sunderman was born on September 13, 1920 in New Rochelle, New York, the daughter of Dorothy (nee Douglas) Davis and George Moulton Davis.
Betty attended the New Rochelle schools and graduated from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts in 1942. She married Lieutenant Irwin Sunderman USNR on October 14, 1944. After WWII they lived in Westfield, New Jersey, and Greenwich Connecticut. After vacationing in the White Mountains since the 1920's they moved permanently to Whitefield in 1983.
Mrs. Sunderman worked as a volunteer for the hospital auxiliary guilds in New Jersey and Connecticut. More recently, she was a member of the White Mountain Garden Club and the Sugar Hill Historical Museum. She was very active each summer on the alter guild of the chapel of the Transfiguration in Whitefield. During the year she was a regular parishioner at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Lancaster.
A daughter of the American Revolution on both sides of the family, she is survived by her husband, Irwin "Win" Sunderman; 2 daughters, Anne (Mark) Patterson of Saratoga Springs, New York; and Laurie (Randall) Atcheson of Greenwich, Connecticut; a grandson, Stephen Patterson and his partner, Stephanie Knapp of Vero Beach Florida.
There will be a private service for the family. Internment will take place in the spring in New Rochelle, New York at the Davis family plot.
The family would like to think the Whitefield Rescue Squad, and Dr. Benson and the nurses in the emergency room and ICU at Weeks Medical Center. "We will always be grateful to her caregivers."