Hanover, N.H. —
Carolmae was born in New York City on Feb. 25, 1925. After attending New York Public Schools, she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology at Smith College in 1946. During her senior year at Smith she met Bob Encherman and they married the following year. They settled first in New York and then Long Island.
When Carolmae’s youngest child attended a cooperative nursery school, Carolmae found her calling.She became an assistant teacher and taught for seventeen years.
On a trip to Hanover, Carolmae and Bob visited Quechee Lakes and immediately bought a plot of land. They built a vacation home a year later and moved up to Quechee permanently in 1981 where they lived for 15 years. Carolmae was very active at Quechee playing golf and tennis, and was a volunteer at the library and garden club.
Throughout their life together, Carolmae and Bob loved to travel and took extensive trips to every corner of the world. Carolmae was known for her amazing memory and could recite back the date and details of every stop on every trip!
In 2006 Carolmae and Bob moved to Kendal in Hanover. Carolmae served as Secretary and Vice President of the Resident Council, volunteered for Meals on Wheels for many years, and participated in many activities in the Kendal community.
Carolmae enjoyed taking many courses at Dartmouth’s Ilead program. She had a lifelong passion for crossword and double acrostic puzzles, regularly finishing the New York Times puzzle in one sitting. Following that passion, Carolmae created and taught an Ilead course about these puzzles.
Carolmae was predeceased by her loving husband Bob in 2007. She is survived by her three children, Susan, Bill (Martha), and Nancy (Don), and by three granddaughters, Grace, Eliza, and Jessica.
There will be a celebration of Carolmae’s life held at Kendal on May 22 at 3 p.m.