JMA# 8.11.322
Biography upon memorial transfer 16 March 2021:
Stanley Bassett Coville, 87, a long-time community leader of Tamworth and a forester with the New England Forestry Foundation for nearly four decades, died on Aug. 17.
The son of Stanley Coville (Washington, D.C.) and Iris Bassett (Rochester, N.Y.), both graduates of Cornell University, he was born Jan. 22, 1926, in Rochester, N.Y., and grew up in New Lisbon, N.J. He graduated from Pemberton High School and Pennsylvania State University, where he was president of his fraternity, Phi Kappa Sigma, and also of the campus Christian Association.
His love of the outdoors and especially the White Mountains came from his familys roots in agriculture and horticulture. His grandfather, Frederick V. Coville, who was the chief botanist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, led the development of the hybridization of the modern cultivated blueberry.
The True Blu blueberry brand and its delicious berries were the product of a cooperative of New Jersey and North Carolina berry farmers, led by his father. As a boy, he spent summers working in blueberry fields, learning the production process of one of the most successful blueberry operations on the east coast.
His love of New Hampshire came from childhood summers in Greenfield, where his family vacationed each August after the blueberry harvest. He decided early on that he would grow up to be a forester in New Hampshire. After college and a summer fighting forest fires in California, he worked for the New England Forestry Foundation for 38 years.
Later, based in Wonalancet, a hamlet of Tamworth, he worked as an independent land surveyor and forester. His contributions to sustaining good land and forestry practices in the state of New Hampshire were recognized by many organizations, including the American Forestry Institute, the Society of American Foresters, and the Carroll County Cooperative Extension Council.
He was a dedicated community member, serving on the Tamworth School Board for 10 years, the Tamworth Outing Club for 62 years, as a member of the vestry of St. Andrews Church, and as a founding member of the Wonalancet Preservation Association. He lived his passions as a friend of the New England Sled Dog Club, square dancing in Tamworth, and baseball for all ages.
LORD FUNERAL HOME
Biography upon memorial transfer 16 March 2021:
Stanley Bassett Coville, 87, a long-time community leader of Tamworth and a forester with the New England Forestry Foundation for nearly four decades, died on Aug. 17.
The son of Stanley Coville (Washington, D.C.) and Iris Bassett (Rochester, N.Y.), both graduates of Cornell University, he was born Jan. 22, 1926, in Rochester, N.Y., and grew up in New Lisbon, N.J. He graduated from Pemberton High School and Pennsylvania State University, where he was president of his fraternity, Phi Kappa Sigma, and also of the campus Christian Association.
His love of the outdoors and especially the White Mountains came from his familys roots in agriculture and horticulture. His grandfather, Frederick V. Coville, who was the chief botanist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, led the development of the hybridization of the modern cultivated blueberry.
The True Blu blueberry brand and its delicious berries were the product of a cooperative of New Jersey and North Carolina berry farmers, led by his father. As a boy, he spent summers working in blueberry fields, learning the production process of one of the most successful blueberry operations on the east coast.
His love of New Hampshire came from childhood summers in Greenfield, where his family vacationed each August after the blueberry harvest. He decided early on that he would grow up to be a forester in New Hampshire. After college and a summer fighting forest fires in California, he worked for the New England Forestry Foundation for 38 years.
Later, based in Wonalancet, a hamlet of Tamworth, he worked as an independent land surveyor and forester. His contributions to sustaining good land and forestry practices in the state of New Hampshire were recognized by many organizations, including the American Forestry Institute, the Society of American Foresters, and the Carroll County Cooperative Extension Council.
He was a dedicated community member, serving on the Tamworth School Board for 10 years, the Tamworth Outing Club for 62 years, as a member of the vestry of St. Andrews Church, and as a founding member of the Wonalancet Preservation Association. He lived his passions as a friend of the New England Sled Dog Club, square dancing in Tamworth, and baseball for all ages.
LORD FUNERAL HOME
JMA# 8.11.322
Biography upon memorial transfer 16 March 2021:
Stanley Bassett Coville, 87, a long-time community leader of Tamworth and a forester with the New England Forestry Foundation for nearly four decades, died on Aug. 17.
The son of Stanley Coville (Washington, D.C.) and Iris Bassett (Rochester, N.Y.), both graduates of Cornell University, he was born Jan. 22, 1926, in Rochester, N.Y., and grew up in New Lisbon, N.J. He graduated from Pemberton High School and Pennsylvania State University, where he was president of his fraternity, Phi Kappa Sigma, and also of the campus Christian Association.
His love of the outdoors and especially the White Mountains came from his familys roots in agriculture and horticulture. His grandfather, Frederick V. Coville, who was the chief botanist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, led the development of the hybridization of the modern cultivated blueberry.
The True Blu blueberry brand and its delicious berries were the product of a cooperative of New Jersey and North Carolina berry farmers, led by his father. As a boy, he spent summers working in blueberry fields, learning the production process of one of the most successful blueberry operations on the east coast.
His love of New Hampshire came from childhood summers in Greenfield, where his family vacationed each August after the blueberry harvest. He decided early on that he would grow up to be a forester in New Hampshire. After college and a summer fighting forest fires in California, he worked for the New England Forestry Foundation for 38 years.
Later, based in Wonalancet, a hamlet of Tamworth, he worked as an independent land surveyor and forester. His contributions to sustaining good land and forestry practices in the state of New Hampshire were recognized by many organizations, including the American Forestry Institute, the Society of American Foresters, and the Carroll County Cooperative Extension Council.
He was a dedicated community member, serving on the Tamworth School Board for 10 years, the Tamworth Outing Club for 62 years, as a member of the vestry of St. Andrews Church, and as a founding member of the Wonalancet Preservation Association. He lived his passions as a friend of the New England Sled Dog Club, square dancing in Tamworth, and baseball for all ages.
LORD FUNERAL HOME
Biography upon memorial transfer 16 March 2021:
Stanley Bassett Coville, 87, a long-time community leader of Tamworth and a forester with the New England Forestry Foundation for nearly four decades, died on Aug. 17.
The son of Stanley Coville (Washington, D.C.) and Iris Bassett (Rochester, N.Y.), both graduates of Cornell University, he was born Jan. 22, 1926, in Rochester, N.Y., and grew up in New Lisbon, N.J. He graduated from Pemberton High School and Pennsylvania State University, where he was president of his fraternity, Phi Kappa Sigma, and also of the campus Christian Association.
His love of the outdoors and especially the White Mountains came from his familys roots in agriculture and horticulture. His grandfather, Frederick V. Coville, who was the chief botanist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, led the development of the hybridization of the modern cultivated blueberry.
The True Blu blueberry brand and its delicious berries were the product of a cooperative of New Jersey and North Carolina berry farmers, led by his father. As a boy, he spent summers working in blueberry fields, learning the production process of one of the most successful blueberry operations on the east coast.
His love of New Hampshire came from childhood summers in Greenfield, where his family vacationed each August after the blueberry harvest. He decided early on that he would grow up to be a forester in New Hampshire. After college and a summer fighting forest fires in California, he worked for the New England Forestry Foundation for 38 years.
Later, based in Wonalancet, a hamlet of Tamworth, he worked as an independent land surveyor and forester. His contributions to sustaining good land and forestry practices in the state of New Hampshire were recognized by many organizations, including the American Forestry Institute, the Society of American Foresters, and the Carroll County Cooperative Extension Council.
He was a dedicated community member, serving on the Tamworth School Board for 10 years, the Tamworth Outing Club for 62 years, as a member of the vestry of St. Andrews Church, and as a founding member of the Wonalancet Preservation Association. He lived his passions as a friend of the New England Sled Dog Club, square dancing in Tamworth, and baseball for all ages.
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