Daughter of John Richard and Huldah Georgia (Bradbury) Currier
Wife of Chester Albert Barker
Mother of Gary, Keith, Kent, Kyle and Kevin
Althea was born in her parent's farmhouse. Althea received her elementary school education in a one-room schoolhouse in Danbury. She skipped two grades, graduated high school in Franklin and entered Colby Sawyer College at age 16. At her father's urging, she took airplane flying lessons and piloted a 1920's biplane. Althea graduated in 1950 with a bachelor's of science degree with a major in medical science. She was employed as a histology technician at St. Joseph's Hospital in Nashua for many years and held a real estate broker's license for 25 years.
Althea and her husband, Chester, were avid dancers in their younger years and graced many a dance floor with style and flair. Busy raising five sons, she still found time for knitting, baking and serving as a Cub Scout den mother. She enjoyed summer cookouts and house parties in a close neighborhood in Milford during the 1960s and '70s. Althea and Chester retired to Concord in 1989 to be closer to her sister and brother-in-law, Jean and Henry Amsden, and to be closer to their vacation cabin in North Wilmot. They enjoyed traveling to Europe, North and South Carolina, Nova Scotia and other destinations, making many new friends along the way.
Althea was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1981. Though the disease eventually robbed her of her ability to walk, she stubbornly refused to submit to its symptoms until past the age of 85.
[Info from the Concord Monitor. 02.03.2016]
Wife of Chester Albert Barker
Mother of Gary, Keith, Kent, Kyle and Kevin
Althea was born in her parent's farmhouse. Althea received her elementary school education in a one-room schoolhouse in Danbury. She skipped two grades, graduated high school in Franklin and entered Colby Sawyer College at age 16. At her father's urging, she took airplane flying lessons and piloted a 1920's biplane. Althea graduated in 1950 with a bachelor's of science degree with a major in medical science. She was employed as a histology technician at St. Joseph's Hospital in Nashua for many years and held a real estate broker's license for 25 years.
Althea and her husband, Chester, were avid dancers in their younger years and graced many a dance floor with style and flair. Busy raising five sons, she still found time for knitting, baking and serving as a Cub Scout den mother. She enjoyed summer cookouts and house parties in a close neighborhood in Milford during the 1960s and '70s. Althea and Chester retired to Concord in 1989 to be closer to her sister and brother-in-law, Jean and Henry Amsden, and to be closer to their vacation cabin in North Wilmot. They enjoyed traveling to Europe, North and South Carolina, Nova Scotia and other destinations, making many new friends along the way.
Althea was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1981. Though the disease eventually robbed her of her ability to walk, she stubbornly refused to submit to its symptoms until past the age of 85.
[Info from the Concord Monitor. 02.03.2016]
Daughter of John Richard and Huldah Georgia (Bradbury) Currier
Wife of Chester Albert Barker
Mother of Gary, Keith, Kent, Kyle and Kevin
Althea was born in her parent's farmhouse. Althea received her elementary school education in a one-room schoolhouse in Danbury. She skipped two grades, graduated high school in Franklin and entered Colby Sawyer College at age 16. At her father's urging, she took airplane flying lessons and piloted a 1920's biplane. Althea graduated in 1950 with a bachelor's of science degree with a major in medical science. She was employed as a histology technician at St. Joseph's Hospital in Nashua for many years and held a real estate broker's license for 25 years.
Althea and her husband, Chester, were avid dancers in their younger years and graced many a dance floor with style and flair. Busy raising five sons, she still found time for knitting, baking and serving as a Cub Scout den mother. She enjoyed summer cookouts and house parties in a close neighborhood in Milford during the 1960s and '70s. Althea and Chester retired to Concord in 1989 to be closer to her sister and brother-in-law, Jean and Henry Amsden, and to be closer to their vacation cabin in North Wilmot. They enjoyed traveling to Europe, North and South Carolina, Nova Scotia and other destinations, making many new friends along the way.
Althea was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1981. Though the disease eventually robbed her of her ability to walk, she stubbornly refused to submit to its symptoms until past the age of 85.
[Info from the Concord Monitor. 02.03.2016]
Wife of Chester Albert Barker
Mother of Gary, Keith, Kent, Kyle and Kevin
Althea was born in her parent's farmhouse. Althea received her elementary school education in a one-room schoolhouse in Danbury. She skipped two grades, graduated high school in Franklin and entered Colby Sawyer College at age 16. At her father's urging, she took airplane flying lessons and piloted a 1920's biplane. Althea graduated in 1950 with a bachelor's of science degree with a major in medical science. She was employed as a histology technician at St. Joseph's Hospital in Nashua for many years and held a real estate broker's license for 25 years.
Althea and her husband, Chester, were avid dancers in their younger years and graced many a dance floor with style and flair. Busy raising five sons, she still found time for knitting, baking and serving as a Cub Scout den mother. She enjoyed summer cookouts and house parties in a close neighborhood in Milford during the 1960s and '70s. Althea and Chester retired to Concord in 1989 to be closer to her sister and brother-in-law, Jean and Henry Amsden, and to be closer to their vacation cabin in North Wilmot. They enjoyed traveling to Europe, North and South Carolina, Nova Scotia and other destinations, making many new friends along the way.
Althea was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1981. Though the disease eventually robbed her of her ability to walk, she stubbornly refused to submit to its symptoms until past the age of 85.
[Info from the Concord Monitor. 02.03.2016]
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