Stott, Elizabeth

Elizabeth ("Betsy") Hubbard Stott, 102, a resident of the Duncaster Retirement Community in Bloomfield since 2001, passed away on January 3, 2022 in the Caleb

Hitchcock Health Center with her children at her side. Born in Pelham Manor, NY November 13, 1919, Mrs. Stott was the daughter of the late Allen S. Hubbard, a founding partner of the New York law firm of Hughes, Richards, Hubbard, and Ewing and Harriet Richardson Hubbard, both originally of Auburn, New York. She graduated from the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury and Vassar College before entering war service in the Army's "Special Branch" in the Pentagon, translating Japanese messages for Military Intelligence. In 1945 she married Gordon D. Stott, a New York investment broker who was working in an allied Intelligence office in the Pentagon. After the war, they settled in Mount Kisco, New York where they raised their three children. With a Columbia University Master's Degree in Education, Betsy taught history and English at Cisqua School in Mount Kisco and at later at the Rippowamcisqua School in Bedford. The couple would later move to Somers, NY, and in 1992 to the Gables in Farmington.

After retiring from teaching in 1976 and with a further Masters degree in Museum Education from NYU, she spent over a decade volunteering at the Katonah Art Gallery (now the Katonah Museum of Art) as a docent and exhibit designer, notably on Southeast Asian Shadow Puppets and on Finnish Art.

Mrs. Stott retained a lifelong devotion to art: she started painting at the age of fourteen and continued into her 102nd year. Among her mentors were Guy Pene du Bois, Wayman Adams, Caesar Borgia and Bob Norieka. Her media ranged from charcoal, pastels, graphite pencil, and oils, although she spent much of the latter part of her life specializing in watercolors. (In her final years, she even started drawing on her ipad.) She had several retrospective exhibits of her watercolors, most recently in 2017.

As a former history teacher, with an ever-inquisitive mind, she researched the local history of Norfolk, CT. The result was Doolittle Woods, 200 Years of Change, a history of European settlement around Norfolk's

Doolittle Lake. As a summer resident there at the camp built for her father in the 1920s, Mrs. Stott gave numerous talks and led tours about the history of the area.

She is survived by her son Peter Stott of Boston, daughters Janet Stott of Los Angeles and Sarah Stott of Bristol, VT, and sons-in-law Arthur Pembleton and Howard Jennings. She was predeceased by her husband Gordon Stott, brothers Allen S. Hubbard Jr, David R. Hubbard and sister Charlotte Fries.

Betsy will be remembered for her inquisitive mind, her determination to persevere on whatever held her interest and her positive outlook. A memorial service will be held at the Colebrook, CT Congregational Church later in the Spring. Donations in her memory can be made to the Norfolk Historical Society, 13 Village

Green, Norfolk, CT 06058.

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