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Esther W. Kohr, 91
Mrs. Esther W. (Collinson) Kohr, 93, of Magnolia, formerly of Truro, died on Tuesday, May 15, at Ledgewood Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Beverly. She was wife of the late John M. Kohr.
She was born on Jan. 28, 1914, in Waverly, daughter of the late Claude Merrilliam and Ethel F. (Cobb) Collinson. She lived in Provincetown in the sea captain’s house belonging to her great uncle, Captain John Banks Rich, who sailed in the China trade. She was also a descendent of Elisha Cobb, a sea captain for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He built the homestead in Truro, which is the oldest house still standing and has been a summer retreat for Esther and her family.
Esther grew up on Cape Cod and went to Boston University where she met her husband John, who attended MIT. The couple moved to Magnolia on Cape Ann. John went to work for Gorton’s of Gloucester and was the inventor of the fish stick. In 1960, Esther decided to create her own career and joined Endicott College. She began as the general office manager, handling 75 secretaries around campus, and then moved on to become an administrator until her retirement 1990. She also founded the Center for Creative Aging, where people from the North Shore could come and take a wide variety of classes.
Mrs. Kohr’s favorite hobby was genealogy. She traced her Cobb roots back to Elder Brewster, the minister who sailed on the Mayflower, and also to all her ancestors who finally settled and established in the town of Truro. Esther also was a member of many clubs, including the Massachusetts Mayflower Society, Plimouth Plantation Society, Gloucester Business Women’s Club and the Perpetual Care Committee for Truro Cemeteries. She was an honorary member of Phi Theta Kappa at Endicott College. She was also an active member of the Wesley Methodist Church in Gloucester, now known as the Riverdale Methodist Church.
She is survived by her daughter, Barbara K. Anderson, and her husband Richard, of Lynnfield; a granddaughter, Kirsten Lamattina, and her husband Michael, of Groveland; and three great-grandchildren, Noelle, Nicholas and Alexander, all of Groveland.
A funeral service was held on Monday at the Campbell, Lee, Moody, Russell Funeral Home, 525 Cabot St., Beverly.
Interment was scheduled to be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 23, at the Pine Grove Cemetery, Truro. Contributions may be made in her memory to the Hospice of the North Shore, 10 Elm Street, Danvers, MA 01923. Information, directions, condolences at www.campbellfuneral.com.
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May 24th, 2007