Claremont, N.H. —
Lynn was a graduate of Stevens High School. She also attended the New Hampshire Vocational Technical College in Concord, N.H. where she became a Registered Nurse. In 2002 she received a Bachelor of Science degree with a self-designed discipline of Hospice and Palliative Care and graduated Cum Laude. She then went on to develop the Hospice Program at Connecticut Valley Homecare and served as Director of that program. She worked with many other Hospice companies in the area such as Bayada and openly shared her expertise to help these other programs evolve and improve. She was well known and well respected throughout the Hospice community for her compassion, hard work, dedication, and her unwavering commitment to her patients and their needs.
She served as the Police Commission Chair for the Claremont Police Department (3/04-12/06). At the time of her death she worked for the State of Vermont Agency of Human Services as an Adult Protective Services Investigator.
Lynn loved the town and community of Claremont. She was viewed by many as a second mother. She enjoyed an open door policy at her warm, inviting home, and invited anyone to sit at the table and dine with her and her family. She was an avid flower gardener and was most proud of her back yard sanctuary that was modeled as a Hospice garden. Lynn was sassy and upbeat, always smiling, and loved life to the fullest. She enjoyed reading, theater, film, and loved to cook. She traveled the world for pleasure as much as she did for work. She often traveled to other countries to study their Hospice care so she could better serve those in her own community. Family, friends, and community were most important to her.
She is predeceased by her first husband, Michael Holland, and her mother, Wreatha Gendron. She is survived by her husband of 13 years, Terry Kelley; her son, Lance Holland, his fiancée, Tami Wynn; her son, Niles Holland Sr., his fiancée, Sonya Blythe; her stepson, Spencer and his wife Jennifer Kelley; her brothers, Lawrence and Louis Gendron; her sisters, Lorene and Lea Gendron; ten nieces, and nephews, Joseph Desilets, Michael Holland, Niles Holland Jr.; and seven other grandchildren. She is also survived by her father, Louis Gendron.
Celebration of Life to be held Saturday, Jan. 28 from 2 p.m to 6 p.m. at the Claremont Senior Center, 5 Acer Heights Rd., Claremont, N.H.