Elizabeth Campbell Chromec, 1947-2022 – The Vermont Journal & The Shopper

SAXTONS RIVER, Vt. – Liz handed away at her residence in August of 2022. Born in 1947 in New York Metropolis, her household moved to Saxtons River in 1949. She attended Saxtons River Elementary Faculty and Bellows Falls Excessive Faculty. She graduated in 1965 from The American Faculty of Paris and attended Middlebury School. Liz then lived in New York Metropolis, Burlington, Vt., and Honolulu, Hawaii, earlier than returning to Saxtons River to boost her daughter.

After attending Norwich College’s accelerated program for educating, she turned a long-term substitute instructor in Cornish, N.H. faculties and labored in particular training at Bellows Falls Union Excessive Faculty.

Liz was entranced by nature and liked dwelling the place she might expertise it day by day. She loved hikes by way of the forest and taught her daughter the right way to monitor the numerous animals that lived within the snowy hills and fields of the household farm. Within the Nineties, she volunteered at a wild fowl sanctuary, nursing injured birds again to well being. She had a knack for soothing the injured birds and lived for the day after they have been launched again to the wild.

She was a gifted artist and author. Within the Seventies, she created probably the most extraordinary embroidered clothes as items for her family members. She embraced spirituality and studied religions of the world, most formatively the teachings of the Dali Lama and traveled to India to check Buddhism.

A lot of her strongest friendships have been solid in her youth, with these she was mates with from grade college by way of highschool. She turned like a second mom to a number of of her daughter’s highschool mates, extending nice kindness and assist to them in occasions of want.

Liz struggled with psychological sickness for the final third of her life. This finally affected her relationships and skill to attach with society. Whereas she did withdraw from many family members within the final years of her life, she was by no means forgotten and was very a lot liked.

Liz is survived by her daughter, Rachael Campbell Chromec of Yellow Springs, Ohio; her siblings, Robert Campbell Jr. of Saxtons River, Averill Larsen of Saxtons River, Michael Campbell of East Boston (Erin O’Hearn), Sean Campbell (Joan) of Saxtons River, Peter Campbell of Greenfield, Mass., Margaret Lacoste (Don) of Wolfeboro, N.H., Charles Campbell (Julie) of Fairfield, Va., William Campbell (Gina)of Greenfield, Mass., Sarah Campbell of Saxtons River, and Matthew Campbell of Greenfield, Mass., in addition to many nieces and nephews. Liz is predeceased by her mother and father, Bob and Beth Campbell of Saxtons River. Providers might be non-public.

Donations to honor Liz could also be made to Nationwide Alliance for Psychological Well being (NAMI) Vermont.