1905 – 2003

WILTON – Glynnese Mayo Raymond, 97, of Wilton, died peacefully at her home early Monday, Oct. 20.

Born Glynnese Ethel Mayo in Wilton, Nov. 10, 1905, the daughter of Granville Elmont and Ethel Jessie (Hood) Mayo, she received her education in Wilton schools, graduating from Wilton Academy in 1924.

On Oct. 24, 1925, she was married to Philip Stevenson Raymond of North Jay by a minister in Livermore Falls. Mr. Raymond died Oct. 13, 1959.

She and her husband lived in North Jay until moving to Wilton in 1946 and finally moving to Suncook, N.H. in 1954 with brief moves in between to Conway, N.H., Mount Airy, N.C. and North Chelmsford, Mass., following her husband’s career in the granite industry.

During this time she was a charter member of the Phippstown Club, the Jay Fireman’s Auxiliary, the Woodbine Temple No. 47 Pythian Sisters and the Jay Historical Society. She was a past member of the North Jay Grange. She also traveled throughout the area, giving readings and performing humorous musical mime skits.

Mrs. Raymond moved back to Wilton following her husband’s death and went to work as a premier stitcher at Norwock Shoe Company in North Jay and Bass Shoe Company in Wilton to provide her teenage son the same home life her older son had been given earlier. She finally retired at age 76 in 1981.

Survivors include two sons, Philip Mayo Raymond and his wife, Shirley and James Granville Raymond and his wife, Jane Cummings; one special granddaughter, Catherine Marie Chobot and her husband, Peter; one great-grandson, Steven Philip Shwartz; two great-granddaughters, Kimberly Ann Chobot and Tersa Marie Chobot; several nephews and nieces; and many grandnephews and nieces.

Besides her husband, she was predeceased by her infant son, George Evans Raymond; her sister, Norma Kathleen Smith; her brothers, Kermit Evans Mayo and Hazen Elbert Mayo; and three nephews.