Obituary: Alice Stone Trainer, 100, of Southbury

Alice Stone Trainer, 100, died Tuesday, July 10, 2012 in Southbury.

Born Alice Tufts Stone, in Hull, MA, the second child of Edward Carleton Stone and Katharine Leggett Brooke. Reared in Lexington MA, she graduated in 1929 from The Emma Willard School, where she later served as a member of the Board of Trustees. She received her AB from Vassar College in 1933.

She married John Newlin Trainer of New York City in 1936 and they made their home until 1988 in Petersville Farm, Mt. Kisco, NY. Mrs. Trainer was active in local arts organizations and the Rusticus Garden Club. She and her family spent summers at Oyster Harbors, Osterville, Cape Cod until the mid 1960’s, when she and her husband began to travel extensively to Africa on safaris and India as well as other countries.

In 1967 they purchased a small camp on Great Pubnico Lake in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, where they spent the greater part of the year, with frequent visits from their children, grandchildren and friends. They called it Nigunak. They also lived in Southbury CT at Heritage Crest until Mr. Trainer’s death in 1997, at which point Mrs. Trainer moved to Pomperaug Woods in Southbury, though she still continued to visit her beloved Nigunak for another 7 or 8 years.

Mrs. Trainer is survived by her two sons and their wives, Mr. and Mrs. John Newlin Trainer of Nashville TN, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stone Trainer of Kennebunk ME. Mrs. Trainer is also survived by five grandchildren, David Browning Trainer, John Newlin Trainer III, Matthew Stone Trainer, John Booth Trainer, and Kirsten Trainer Mallik and eight great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Trainer was predeceased by her sister Caroline Ayers of Easton PA, and is survived by her sister Kitty White of Concord MA and brother Henry Stone of Dover MA.

Special mention must be given to Lorna and Marsha Gayle, her two caregivers in the final year of her life, for their tireless and loving contributions to her quality of life, pushing her over the 100 year old mark.

The first of two memorial services will be held Friday, July 13 at the Southbury Funeral Home of Munson-Lovetere, 235 Main St. North at 2 p.m. The second service will be held in Massachusetts in September. Complete date and time for that service will be announced.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Southbury Ambulance Association, 68 Georges Hill Road, Southbury, 06488.