NATALIE HOYT NELSON

Natalie Hoyt Nelson, 92, passed away peacefully on August 7, 2019 in Tallahassee, FL.  Born on Sept 7, 1926 in Fort Fairfield, ME, she was the daughter of Albert Franklin and Ella Armstrong Hoyt.    She graduated from Ft. Fairfield High School in 1944.  Later she lived in Los Angeles, Miami and San Francisco, eventually retiring to Boston.  She spent her last five years in Tallahassee, FL, near her daughter.  She was a former member of the New Orleans Jazz Club of Northern California.  Her friendly nature and ready smile came from a love of people, parties, jazz music and dancing.   She was an avid reader, loved traveling and enjoyed the theater.  She is survived by a daughter, Joyce Nelson of Quincy, FL, a sister, Pamela Newell, of Mattapoisett, MA; a niece, Jennifer Newell (Joseph Smith) of Dedham, MA; a nephew, Peter Newell (Eileen) of Mattapoisett, MA; three great nieces and a great nephew; and cousins, David Armstrong, Dale Armstrong and Linda Hayes of Fort Fairfield, ME. 

 

Afterglow

by Helen Lowrie Marshall

 

“I’d like the memory of me
to be a happy one.
I’d like to leave an afterglow
of smiles when life is done.
I’d like to leave an echo
whispering softly down the ways,
Of happy times and laughing times
and bright and sunny days.
I’d like the tears of those who grieve,
to dry before the sun
of happy memories
that I leave when life is done.”