Corabelle "Cora" Alice Lovejoy Russo
Eddy, 73, of Royalton, Vt., died
Thursday, April 2, 2015, at Dartmouth
Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.
She was born June 25, 1941, the only
child of Clayton and Goldie (Hudson)
(Austin) Lovejoy. She attended grade
school in Burke Hollow, Vt., and high
school at Lyndon Institute in Lyndon,
Vt. In 1960 she attended Fanny Allen
School of Nursing and became a LPN,
and in the 1990s attended Vermont
College and became a Registered
Nurse, fulfilling a lifelong dream. She
was always a nurse in specialty units,
Intensive Care, Cardiac Care, and
Nursery. At the end of her career she
was a psychiatric nurse at the VA
Hospital in White River Jct. where she
was known as Grandma Cora by the patients.
Her Baha'i faith was a comfort to her
throughout her long illness.
She married Gene Raymond Russo in 1963 and had three sons,
Turner (Randy) Russo of Randolph, Vt., Craig A. Russo and his
wife, Margaret of Claremont, N.H., and Clifford A. Russo of
Newtown, Conn. She married Ralph G. Eddy in 1976, and had
one son, Robert G. Eddy and his wife, Sharon of Moscow, Idaho.
She had many hobbies and interests, sewing, knitting,
crocheting, cooking, ceramic, gardening, and genealogy, among
many others. She was a nurse to all living things and could get
houseplants and animals to grow and thrive when others would
consider them lost causes. Her love of animals was a lifelong
passion. Her cats, dogs, and other pets were her adopted
children. Above all, she had a kinship with turtles, she was a
veritable turtle whisperer.
She was predeceased by her first husband; her parents; two
brothers, Pearly Austin and Vern Austin, and nephews Norman
Austin and Nathan Austin.
She is survived by her second husband, her four sons, and
much loved grandchildren, Isobel Russo, Gretchen Eddy,
Imogen Eddy, and Rohen Eddy, five nieces and one nephew and
many cousins.
She is being buried June 12, 2015, with Oscar, her last cat of
19 years that passed a few weeks before her, in the East Haven
Cemetery, East Haven, Vt.
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