Rosamond Hawthorne Mikkelsen died at the age of 104 at Danbury Hospital. She was the only child of Gwendolen Hawthorne Mikkelsen and Michael Andreas Mikkelsen, and a great-granddaughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. When she was about two years old, her parents brought her to the farm they had recently purchased in West Redding. She never married, and would spend almost her entire life there at that home on Wayside Lane.
A gifted writer and a skillful painter of portraits and landscapes, by her forties she had set aside those pursuits, devoting herself to maintaining her home as a gathering place for the extended family. Doing much of the physical work herself, she landscaped the property, planting flowers, trees, and shrubs, building terraces, and digging a pond. She redecorated indoors as well, painting walls and floors and hanging wallpaper. She designed, and supervised the construction of, a large addition to the house. She sewed her own clothes, grew her own food (she was one of the first, locally, to experiment with organic gardening), and made her own wine. She led an active social life and was an excellent tennis player, usually placing high in the yearly tournaments in Redding and Weston. She continued to garden, and to mow her lawns herself, into her late nineties.
Passionately interested in science and world affairs, she was always eager to implement any idea she thought would benefit humanity. It was in this spirit that she became the first to donate property to the Redding Land Trust after it was founded in 1965. [excerpted from the full obit which was published in The News-Times, Danbury, Connecticut, January 16, 2016]
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A gifted writer and a skillful painter of portraits and landscapes, by her forties she had set aside those pursuits, devoting herself to maintaining her home as a gathering place for the extended family. Doing much of the physical work herself, she landscaped the property, planting flowers, trees, and shrubs, building terraces, and digging a pond. She redecorated indoors as well, painting walls and floors and hanging wallpaper. She designed, and supervised the construction of, a large addition to the house. She sewed her own clothes, grew her own food (she was one of the first, locally, to experiment with organic gardening), and made her own wine. She led an active social life and was an excellent tennis player, usually placing high in the yearly tournaments in Redding and Weston. She continued to garden, and to mow her lawns herself, into her late nineties.
Passionately interested in science and world affairs, she was always eager to implement any idea she thought would benefit humanity. It was in this spirit that she became the first to donate property to the Redding Land Trust after it was founded in 1965. [excerpted from the full obit which was published in The News-Times, Danbury, Connecticut, January 16, 2016]
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Rosamond Hawthorne Mikkelsen died at the age of 104 at Danbury Hospital. She was the only child of Gwendolen Hawthorne Mikkelsen and Michael Andreas Mikkelsen, and a great-granddaughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. When she was about two years old, her parents brought her to the farm they had recently purchased in West Redding. She never married, and would spend almost her entire life there at that home on Wayside Lane.
A gifted writer and a skillful painter of portraits and landscapes, by her forties she had set aside those pursuits, devoting herself to maintaining her home as a gathering place for the extended family. Doing much of the physical work herself, she landscaped the property, planting flowers, trees, and shrubs, building terraces, and digging a pond. She redecorated indoors as well, painting walls and floors and hanging wallpaper. She designed, and supervised the construction of, a large addition to the house. She sewed her own clothes, grew her own food (she was one of the first, locally, to experiment with organic gardening), and made her own wine. She led an active social life and was an excellent tennis player, usually placing high in the yearly tournaments in Redding and Weston. She continued to garden, and to mow her lawns herself, into her late nineties.
Passionately interested in science and world affairs, she was always eager to implement any idea she thought would benefit humanity. It was in this spirit that she became the first to donate property to the Redding Land Trust after it was founded in 1965. [excerpted from the full obit which was published in The News-Times, Danbury, Connecticut, January 16, 2016]
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A gifted writer and a skillful painter of portraits and landscapes, by her forties she had set aside those pursuits, devoting herself to maintaining her home as a gathering place for the extended family. Doing much of the physical work herself, she landscaped the property, planting flowers, trees, and shrubs, building terraces, and digging a pond. She redecorated indoors as well, painting walls and floors and hanging wallpaper. She designed, and supervised the construction of, a large addition to the house. She sewed her own clothes, grew her own food (she was one of the first, locally, to experiment with organic gardening), and made her own wine. She led an active social life and was an excellent tennis player, usually placing high in the yearly tournaments in Redding and Weston. She continued to garden, and to mow her lawns herself, into her late nineties.
Passionately interested in science and world affairs, she was always eager to implement any idea she thought would benefit humanity. It was in this spirit that she became the first to donate property to the Redding Land Trust after it was founded in 1965. [excerpted from the full obit which was published in The News-Times, Danbury, Connecticut, January 16, 2016]
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