Iris Marie Coville Thompson Ortner

 

5-27-17-marie-t.-ortnerIris Marie Coville Thompson Ortner, 95, died in Nashua on April 19, 2017.

She was an independent woman who loved helping others. Known from childhood as Mar-ie (emphasis on the first syllable), she was born April 14, 1922, to Stanley Coville and Iris Marie Bassett and spent her childhood in New Lisbon, N.J., where her father grew blueberries and managed the TruBlu blueberry growers coop. Her grandfather Frederick Vernon Coville domesticated blueberries as a cultivated crop and it was his collaboration with Elizabeth White of Whitesbog, N.J., that brought her parents to New Jersey.

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