- Date Of Birth: June 13, 1944
- Date Of Death: June 5, 2020
- State: Massachusetts
Susan Lewis Dillon, 75, of Dennis, passed away peacefully on June 5, 2020 at Eagle Pond Nursing Home in Dennis.Susan was born in Putnam, CT on June 13, 1944, the third daughter of M. Keith Lewis and Ruth (Young) Lewis. She was predeceased by her parents and her beloved husband, Thomas F. Dillon. She is survived by her two sisters and their families, Nancy Mayhew and Joanne Korner. She also leaves behind three daughters, Robin Driscoll and her husband Dennis of Cape Coral, FL, Melissa Cummins and her husband Thomas of Richmond, RI and Eileen McGee and her husband Stephen of Harwich. Susan dearly loved and will be greatly missed by her six grandchildren, Rachel Gabriele and her husband Jeffrey, Kathleen and Sarah Driscoll, Emmett and Sullivan Cummins and Thomas McGee. Her first great granddaughter Iris Gabriele was born on May 3. Sue grew up in Eastford, CT, riding horses and enjoying the family cottage on Crystal Pond, or just “the Lake”. She loved swimming, boating and waterskiing. As a student at Woodstock Academy she played basketball and ran track. After High School Susan attended the Carnegie Institute in Boston and then worked as an Operating Room Technician at Hartford Hospital and Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam. In 1979 Sue and Tom moved their family to Dennis, an area they had previously loved to vacation, and owned and operated a Carvel Ice Cream store for many years. Susan later worked in Hyannis at Cape Cod Surgical Associates. When Susan was not working, she loved to garden in her yard and tend to her home. Sue liked to keep busy and could always dream up another project. Her children have fond memories or her making and canning pickles and grape jelly and she loved to bake. Susan loved to walk on the beach or sit with her feet in the water. Susan would help you hang wallpaper and could cane a chair and loved painting birdhouses for gifts and she loved Christmas as much as a child. Susan was adventurous, kind, loving, generous, stubborn, emotional and empathetic. She was great to have as a friend. She loved spending time with those she loved or a new friend she just met and could really share a laugh.
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