GREEN TOWNSHIP, OHIO — Chloe McIntire Colby, 79, of Green Township, Ohio, and Papoose Pond in Waterford, passed away at her home on Dec. 18, 2009.

She was born in South Paris on Dec. 20, 1929, the daughter of Glenn R. and Marguerite Pearman McIntire. She grew up in Brunswick and graduated from Brunswick High School. After graduation she went on to Tufts, from there to a scholarship to the University of Michigan, where she earned a master’s degree in clinical psychology. She met her husband, Edward Eugene Colby, in high school. They went their separate ways for college and where married in 1953. They moved to Cincinnati, where they raised four children. She was an elder at North Presbyterian Church in Northside and helped to start a daycare center. She was a room mother for the elementary school classes, a Sunday school teacher, a den mother for the Cub Scouts and a Girl Scout leader. Once the children were grown, she and her husband enjoyed traveling to France, Hungary, Norway, and on a cruise north of the Arctic Circle. She had a great interest in genealogy and formed Living Roots, a research consulting firm, that took her to many places around the country. Her roots were always at Papoose Pond in Waterford, where she and her family spent many happy times. It is a place full of memories that her children and grandchildren will continue to visit; the camp has been in her family for over 100 years. She enjoyed visitors at Papoose Pond, especially her five grandsons, in whom she took particular pride and delight. She became an active contributor to the Waterford Historical Society.

She is survived by her husband, Gene Colby, of Green Township, Ohio and Papoose Pond, Waterford; children, Edward, Jr., and (Jennifer O’Mahony), Roy S. and (Judy), Margaret Ann Colby and Grace Elizabeth Colby; five grandsons, Daniel, Jeffrey, Sean, Seth and Tiernan; a brother, Justin McIntire, and (Louise) of Harpswell; a sister, Sally Richard, of Fairfax, Va., and Papoose Pond, Waterford.

She was predeceased by a brother-in-law, Pete Richard.