Joan Hughes Hutchinson, a former Greenwich resident, gracefully passed away on October 25 in Chesapeake, Virginia.
Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts she was the daughter of the late John E. and Florence S. Hughes of Stamford, CT. She was a graduate of Stamford High School, the Greenwich Hospital School of Nursing and Saint Josephs college in Standish Maine. She retired in 1995 after more than 20 years as a nurse epidemiologist at the Stamford hospital. She had been a member of the Presbyterian Church of Old Greenwich, the nurses alumni of Greenwich Hospital, had played French horn with many local symphony orchestra’s and was active in community affairs, before retiring to Florida in 1999.
She was predeceased by her husband of 57 years, John A. Hutchinson III of the Villages, Florida. She is survived by two sons, John A. Hutchinson of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, James A. Hutchinson of Colebrook, New Hampshire; and a daughter, Jill E. Leach of Virginia Beach, Virginia. During her lifetime, Joan was blessed with nine grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
It can’t be bought for money
Or sold like Precious Gold
And all who have possessed it
Have found it hard to hold
Its Source is Everlasting
Like Moonlight in the soul
It generates a power to comfort and console
Unseen it seems to blossom upon the Human vine
Like roses in a garden
So fragile yet Divine
Love Always & Forever
Amen
Service and Internment at The First Congregational Church, Old Greenwich, in the spring of 2023, date to be announced.
Memorial donations to Americares, New Canan, CT.
