Eleanor Kenison, 87, died Sunday May 18, 2025, at Lebanon Genesis Eldercare.
She was born October 30, 1937 in Hanover, N.H. a daughter of Troye and Eleanor Clara (Webster) Allard. Eleanor attended schools in Pomfret and East Barnard before graduating from Woodstock High School Class of 1955. Later that year she married Bradley Kenison on Nov. 25. She worked as a telephone operator for several years in Woodstock before having a son, Bradley Jr. The family settled in West Hartford where they built a home themselves that they would live in for the next forty years. Eleanor has lived at Greystone Village in White River Jct. for the past seventeen years.
Eleanor was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Hanover Ward. In her free time, she enjoyed painting with watercolors and enjoying the simple things in life like listening to rain on the roof or taking a walk in the crisp morning air.
She was predeceased by her husband, Bradley in 2005 and a sister Shirley Hebert earlier this year.
She leaves her son, Bradley Jr. of West Hartford, a cousin Emily Green and many friends and neighbors.
A memorial service will be held at the Knight Funeral Home in White River Jct. on Thursday, May 29 at 7 p.m.
Condolences to Eleanor’s family may be made in an online guestbook at knightfuneralhomes.com.
Contributions in her memory may be made to the American Kidney Fund, 11921 Rockville Pike, Suite 300, Rockville, MD 20852. or at kidneyfund.org.
