Eleanor Mackenzie Mudgeof Lyme, died peacefully at Kendal at Hanover on June 9th surrounded by two of her four children. She was 103.

Eleanor was born in New York City on June 17, 1917, the daughter of Dr. George M. Mackenzie and Eleanor Hobson Mackenzie. When Eleanor was ten, the family moved to Cooperstown, New York, where her father was appointed Chief Physician and Director of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital. Eleanor graduated from Milton Academy in 1933 and from Bryn Mawr College in 1938. During her junior year at Bryn Mawr she studied in France and developed a life-long love of France and French culture, which included teaching French to high school students. After Bryn Mawr, she received a Masters Degree in Political Science from Columbia University. In July 2018 Eleanor was honored as the oldest resident of Lyme and became the holder of the Boston Post Cane in Lyme. At the time of her death, Eleanor was the oldest resident of Kendal and the oldest alumna of Milton Academy.

In 1941 Eleanor married Dr. Gilbert Horton Mudge, a graduate of the Columbia University School of Medicine. Eleanor and her husband moved to Lyme in 1962 when he was appointed Dean of the Dartmouth Medical School. They bought an old farmhouse overlooking the Connecticut River that was to be their home for over half a century. Eleanor tremendously enjoyed working in her garden and sharing flowers and vegetables from the garden. For twelve years she served on the Board of Trustees of the Converse Free Library in Lyme. During those years she was active in planning the expansion of the library, a project that included new and expanded town offices. During the winter she enjoyed skiing and for many years was a volunteer instructor with the Ford Sayre Ski Program. The family had a summer cottage in Randolph, New Hampshire, where she enjoyed hiking with friends and relatives in the White Mountains.

Eleanor enjoyed travel with her family. This included trips to Normandy in 1961 and again in 1989 on the 45th anniversary of D-Day to dedicate two monuments to pilots in her husband's squadron who were lost in action in World War II. In Lyme, Eleanor quietly enjoyed her community activities, her garden, playing her piano, and painting numerous scenes of the Lyme countryside.

After her husband's death in 1996, Eleanor continued to live indepenently in her home until 2014 when, at age 97, she moved to Kendal. On her 100th birthday she happily said, "This is so exciting, I can't wait 'til my 200th." A few weeks after that, as she slowly moved into her recliner, she joked, "Old age is creeping up on me. "She is survived by her four children, George Alfred Mudge of Sharon, Connecticut, Gilbert Horton Mudge, Jr. of Vass, North Carolina and Vershire, Vermont, John Mudge of Lyme, and Eleanor Mudge Cares of Boulder, Colorado, five grand-children, ten great-grandchildren, and many nephews and nieces. She was pre-deceased by her husband in 1996, by a grandson in 1990, and by her three brothers.

The family would like to express its gratitude to the entire staff at Kendal for the wonderful care that Eleanor received during the time that she lived there.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Rand-Wilson Funeral Home in Hanover. Services and burial in the Lyme cemetery will be held at a date that is convenient for the family.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Lyme Fast Squad, PO Box 126, 1 High Street, Lyme, NH 03768.