Elizabeth A. Marciano
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Elizabeth Ann (LaFlame) Marciano, of Woodstock, VT, formerly of Lecanto, FL, Standish, ME, and Andover, MA, passed away peacefully on Saturday, February 29, 2020.
Born in Athol, Massachusetts on November 23, 1932, to James Henry Carl LaFlame and Sadie Ruany (Goodwin) LaFlame, Betty graduated from Leominster High School in 1950 andState Teachers College at Fitchburg in 1954, and began her teaching career in Newton, MA.
In 1959 she married Richard "Dick" Marciano, and that same yearthey also welcomed the arrival of the first of their five children and built a home in west Andover, Massachusetts, where they were founding members of St. Robert's Bellarmine Parish, a faith community that would be one of the pillars of their lives throughout their years in Andover.
In 1970, after taking ten years off from teaching to concentrate on motherhood and family life, Betty began what would turn into 26 years of teaching at Sanborn Elementary School, mostly second grade, the deep bonds that she formed with her colleagues there becoming another pillar of the family's life in town.
In the late 1970s, Betty and Dick became involved in Marriage Encounter and then Engaged Encounter, giving weekend retreats to reinforce the communication skills that form the basis of healthy marriages, which they would for more than twenty years.
After retirement in 1997, they spent the summers at their home in Standish, Maine, and winters in Lecanto, Florida.
As she began to slow physically, she decided to move back north so as not to burden her Florida friends. Her eldest daughter Robyn and her husband Karl welcomed her into their home in Woodstock, VT.
She was predeceased by her husband and is survived by her brother H. James LaFlame (Swansea, MA), five children and their spouses, Robyn and Karl Huck (Woodstock, VT), Richard and Nancy Marciano (Buxton, ME), Jay and Liane Marciano (Amherst, NH and Bonn, Germany), John and Allison Marciano (Andover, MA), and Elizabeth and Jonathan Ross (Standish, ME), as well as eleven grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and many loving friends and relatives.
Services will be held at 1 PM on Saturday, 14 March 2020, at the First Congregational Church of Woodstock, Vermont, with a reception immediately following in the church's fellowship hall.
The Cabot Funeral Home in Woodstock is assisting in arrangements. An on line guest book can be found at cabotfh.com