Daughter of Dwight G. W. and Dorothy (Tryon) Hollister. She was a longtime member of Grace Episcopal Church in Vineyard Haven where she helped to organize the first nursery school program there. She was actively involved in the community chaperoning school sports trips, helping introduce field hockey to the high school, becoming a certified field hockey referee, baking for every imaginable occasion and primarily being on call for her children, numerous dogs and cats, and her doctor husband whose office was situated through all those formative years in their house. Later on she volunteered with the Samaritans and NAMI: the National Alliance on Mental Illness and was active in MV Community Services. She also returned to her teaching roots helping with reading programs at Tisbury School and eventually becoming "the most important substitute teacher" in the Chilmark School where she was affectionately known as the "Grandmother of the School." In her leisure she enjoyed cooking and baking, collecting Indian artifacts, antique bottles, jokes, watching Boston sports, especially the Bruins and volunteering as a reading tutor in the Chilmark School until "the old knees gave out" and she couldn't get down on the floor with the kids anymore. Predeceased by her husband Dr. Russell Hoxsie in 2011, and daughter Pamela Hoxsie. Survived by her children Steven Hoxsie and his wife Martha, Deborah Lomas and her husband Duncan, Russell Hoxsie, Jr., and Christopher Hoxsie and his ex-wife, Pamela. Cherished grandmother of seven.
Published in The Boston Globe on September 23, 2012
Published in The Boston Globe on September 23, 2012
Daughter of Dwight G. W. and Dorothy (Tryon) Hollister. She was a longtime member of Grace Episcopal Church in Vineyard Haven where she helped to organize the first nursery school program there. She was actively involved in the community chaperoning school sports trips, helping introduce field hockey to the high school, becoming a certified field hockey referee, baking for every imaginable occasion and primarily being on call for her children, numerous dogs and cats, and her doctor husband whose office was situated through all those formative years in their house. Later on she volunteered with the Samaritans and NAMI: the National Alliance on Mental Illness and was active in MV Community Services. She also returned to her teaching roots helping with reading programs at Tisbury School and eventually becoming "the most important substitute teacher" in the Chilmark School where she was affectionately known as the "Grandmother of the School." In her leisure she enjoyed cooking and baking, collecting Indian artifacts, antique bottles, jokes, watching Boston sports, especially the Bruins and volunteering as a reading tutor in the Chilmark School until "the old knees gave out" and she couldn't get down on the floor with the kids anymore. Predeceased by her husband Dr. Russell Hoxsie in 2011, and daughter Pamela Hoxsie. Survived by her children Steven Hoxsie and his wife Martha, Deborah Lomas and her husband Duncan, Russell Hoxsie, Jr., and Christopher Hoxsie and his ex-wife, Pamela. Cherished grandmother of seven.
Published in The Boston Globe on September 23, 2012
Published in The Boston Globe on September 23, 2012
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