IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Olivia Kloman

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Chappell

Aug 30, 1934 — Nov 16, 2014

Obituary

Olivia Lewis (Kloman) Thomas Chappell of Hopewell, New Jersey and Tenant's Harbor Maine, 80, died at 12:50 a.m. on Sunday November 16, 2014 at University Medical Center of Princeton in Plainsboro, New Jersey. "Cis", as she was known to one and all, the daughter of the late Very Rev. E. Felix Kloman and Olivia Rogers Pragoff Kloman was born August 30, 1934 in New York City, New York. She attended Springside School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, graduating from National Cathedral School for Girls in Washington, D.C. in 1952. She attended Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

She is survived by sons Edward ("Tad") Thomas of Washington D.C., Christopher M. Thomas ("Kip" married to Evan) of Ringoes, New Jersey, Stephen L. Thomas ("Tebo") of Hopewell New Jersey; daughters Elizabeth R. ("Lissa" wife of John Hastings) of Tuscon Arizona, Olivia T. ("Tucker") Thomas, Hilleary T. Thomas of Hopewell, New Jersey; husband Hayward Chappell; brothers Henry Felix Kloman (Ann) of Lyme Connecticut, Christopher Rogers Kloman (Pamela) of Virginia; sister Eleanor Trapnell Kloman Wallace of Fort Wayne, Indiana; grandson Hunter A. Hastings; granddaughters Annabel M. Thomas and Elizabeth J. Thomas and numerous nieces and nephews.

Cis led a joyful life helping to birth babies, substitute teaching, working as a real estate agent in New Jersey, and, above all, generously helping friends in need of assistance, with her presence and unfailing good humor. She was a co-founder of Concord Hill School. She served on the Board of The Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation and volunteered and raised funds for the Frontier Nursing Service in Wendover, KY. She was also a member of the Junior League in Washington DC.

She found solace and delight in her home in Tenant's Harbor, Maine which, she wrote, was her open- house sanctuary and community center, where she along with her beloved dog Gracie was "Gonna sleep with the stars, and a slice of the moon hanging right above my bed. Gonna dream not of things that I've left behind but of those I found instead." (Mary Chapin Carpenter)

A Memorial Service will be held at Trinity Episcopal Church, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton NJ on Saturday December 13, 2014 at 1:00 PM. In lieu of flowers please send donations to Frontier Nursing Service, 132 FNS Drive, Wendover, Kentucky 41775 and/or to The Concord Hill School, 6050 Wisconsin Ave, Chevy Chase, MD 20815.
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