Award-winning weaver who enjoyed the arts and the symphony
Published January 17, 2019
FALMOUTH, Maine — Helen Ione (Carver) Hoyt, 99, died January 10, 2019, at Falmouth by the Sea, in Falmouth, Maine, where she had resided for the last year.
Born May 2, 1919, in Osgood, Missouri, she was the daughter of Earl and Venice Carver. She grew up on the family farm in Osgood, and attended the Clearview School there, fondly remembering riding her horse to school. She attended high school in Kirksville, Missouri. Following high school, she attended the Kirksville College of Nursing.
In 1942, she married W. Hadley Hoyt, Jr., D.O. While he interned in Boston, she lived with his family in Walpole, Mass. The Hoyts settled in North Reading, Mass. where they raised three children. In 1963, they moved to Kirksville, Missouri.
In 1981, she and her husband moved to Kensal Rise, London, and in 1983 they retired in Portland, Maine. In Portland, Helen was an advisor to the UNE Student Spouse Association. She was an award-winning weaver, and member of the Mainely Weavers Guild, the Retired Nurses Association, and delighted in attending classes at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute for many years. She enjoyed the arts, the symphony, and international travel.
Helen was preceded in death by her husband, her daughter Mary Junia Hoyt McCoy, and two brothers, Woody and Joe Carver.
She is survived by two children, Martha Hoyt Emerson of Portland, Maine, and W. Hadley Hoyt III, D.O. and his wife Anita of Osage Beach, Missouri; four grandchildren, W. Hadley Hoyt IV, D.O. and his wife Autumn Clark, D.O., Thomas Robert McCoy and his wife Kathy, Tiffany Hoyt Tinson and her husband Jim, and Jared Cooper Emerson; eight great-grandchildren, Connor, William and Maxwell Tinson, Monica and Willis Hoyt, and Alyssa, Austin and Dominic McCoy; and two sisters, Gloria Carver Hansard of Bozeman, Montana, and Peggy Carver Sweet of Fallbrook, California.
The family will gather to inter Helen’s ashes in the Newington, New Hampshire Cemetery.
