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Poshpeck, Carolann (Redding)

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Brentwood, NH: Carolann Redding Poshpeck, 66, passed away Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at Hyder Hospice House in Dover, NH, surrounded by her loving family after a long illness.

Born April 23, 1955, daughter to the late John and June (Marshall) Redding. Raised and educated in Edison, NJ, a graduate of J.P. Stevens Highschool. She furthered her education and earned her Bachelor of Arts from Villanova University in 1977. Beginning her career in the commercial market environmen­t, working at Carrier Corp in up-state New York. Carolann subsequent­ly transition­ed her career into an educator, working for the Community College of Philadelph­ia and later the Community College of Delaware. She went on to earn her Master of Education degree from River University

in Nashua, NH.

Carolann was an avid runner and enjoyed making those she loved and cared for happy. Above all, she was devoted to her family and friends, leaving a loving mark on everyone she knew. Carolann will be remembered most for her kind, caring, gentle nature.

Carolann is survived by her loving husband of over 20 years, Richard Poshpeck and his children, Christophe­r Poshpeck and his wife, Patience of Cape Elizabeth, ME, Laurie Poshpeck-Caldwell and her husband, John of Danville, NH, and Karyn Poshpeck McNamara of Fremont;

six grandchild­ren, Bailee, Addison, Grace, Charlotte, Anna, and Owen; brother, Keith Redding and his wife Mary Ellen, of Furlong, PA; sister, Greer Fleisher and

her husband, Andrew of Portsmouth, NH; four nieces, Taylor, Katie, Samantha, and Megan; nephew, Erik and countless close friends and college alumni friends. In

addition to her parents, she was predecease­d by her two sisters, Christine Redding Rath, Jacqueline Redding Casey, son-in-law Timothy McNamara, and her loving grandson, Casey McNamara.

The Poshpeck-Redding family would like to thank the Hyder House of Dover and the Wentworth Homecare & Hospice group for their compassion­ate and loving care.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend Carolann's Life Celebratio­n to be held on Tuesday, April 12, 2022

from 5 to 7 p.m. at Brookside Chapel & Funeral Home, 116 Main St., Plaistow, NH. A Mass of Christian Burial

will be celebrated on Wednesday April 13, 2022 at 10:30 a.m. in Saint Anne's Church, Emerson Avenue,

Hampstead.

Arrangemen­ts are under the direction of Brookside Chapel & Funeral Home, 116 Main St., Plaistow, NH. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in memory of Carolann Poshpeck in support of the Frontotemp­oral Disorders Unit at Massachuse­tts General Hospital and mailed to: Mass General Hospital Developmen­t Office, 125 Nashua St., Suite 540, Boston, MA 02114,

Attention: A. Van Strien. Donations may be made online at giving.massgenera­l.org/donate; please be sure to indicate that the gift is a tribute gift in memory of Carolann Poshpeck. To send a condolence message to the family, please use the guestbook from the funeral

home website.

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