- Date Of Birth: April 27, 1953
- Date Of Death: July 17, 2021
- State: Connecticut
Therese Forsyth Hare, 68, died July 17, 2021 peacefully surrounded by her family at Smilow Cancer Hospital in New Haven, CT.
Terry was born April 27, 1953, in New York City to William H. Forsyth and Agnes M. (Mitchell) Forsyth. The Forsyths and McClintocks have lived on Prospect Mountain Rd. in Salisbury, CT, for 70 years, and Salisbury was Terry’s favorite place to be.
She was educated at The Chapin School, Rosemary Hall, Westminster Choir College, Ithaca College, where she received a B.M.E., and Central Michigan University, where she received an M.A. in choral conducting.
After Ithaca College, she lived with her husband, John, in Bethlehem, PA, Grand Rapids, MI, and New Haven, CT. In Pennsylvania, she taught cello privately, she was the Instrumental Director at Moravian Academy, and she played with the Reading Symphony Orchestra, the Pennsylvania Sinfonia, and the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, among others. She co-founded the Bethlehem A Capella Singers. In Michigan, she taught cello privately and at Grand Rapids Community College, and she was the Instructor of Viola da Gamba at Calvin College. She played with the Westshore Symphony Orchestra, the Ash Grove String Quartet, and the Terzina Piano Trio, among others. She also sang with the Bach Chorale.
Terry was a person who spread joy to those around her. She saw the good in the people she was with, and drew the good out of them. She was a person of deep Christian faith, and she showed this in the love she gave to her family and to people that she met, sharing deeply in their joy and suffering. She had an exuberance for life that she delighted in sharing with others; she brought light and joy to what could otherwise have been mundane experiences, routinely spinning straw into gold. She had a way of welcoming and disarming everybody, making connections with new people, and turning duties into adventures. Life will not be the same without her in it. She will be deeply missed.
She is survived by her husband, John, her son Thomas, her son Andrew and his wife Lindsy, and their child Rory, her brother Bill and his wife Lesleigh, and her sister Caroline. She is also survived by her cousins Mary and Lucy and their families and her many nephews and nieces: Lydia, Verena, Henry (Hank), Chris, Rebecca, David, Gilbert, Edward (Teddy), and their families.
