Mary Ann Tabor (88) passed away peacefully on Monday, May 20th at Maple Ridge Memory Care in Essex, VT.

She was born to Baron and Hazel (Wortheim) Tabor of Richmond, Vermont on May 3, 1936. Mary Ann graduated from Richmond High School in 1953 as the class Valedictorian; she was a delegate to Green Mountain Girls State and loved playing on the softball team. She graduated from UVM, where she was a member of the Sigma Gamma Sorority. She shared her love of history with countless students at AD Lawton Middle school in Essex, LC Hunt Middle school and Burlington High school during her long teaching career, as well as being a lifeguard at the Essex pool. Over the years, she owned homes in South Burlington, Colchester, and Williston, but her summers were always spent at her beloved camp in Hinesburg that she shared with her mother Hazel. At camp, she enjoyed hosting many picnics, kids' sleepovers, teaching nieces and nephews how to play cribbage, fish, and swim.

Mary Ann was raised on her parent's farm in Richmond, and she always delighted in anything Vermont, from its history and lore to its rural, natural beauty. She read voraciously -- fiction, history and especially anything WWII. She spent time walking her many dogs, watching Red Sox games and listening to 40s music. Mary Ann golfed in summers, which she learned from her Uncle Henry and in the winter, she loved to ski and shared that adventure with her students and family. She generously donated blood and platelets through the Red Cross, receiving many gallon pins. She delighted in time spent with family, sharing dinners/picnics and playing pinochle.

Mary Ann was predeceased by her parents and 3 sisters and their husbands –Joyce & Wally Stokes, Freda Grassley, and June & Bernard Giroux; along with a favorite cousin JoAnn Warner and nephews Dan Giroux, Michael and Robert Grassley and Steve Stokes. She is survived by 2 half-brothers -- Brian and James Tabor, and 11 nieces and nephews – Sue Giroux McGuire, Mark, Peter, Tom, and Jim Giroux, Mary Jo Giroux Brace, David Grassley, Janice Stokes Estenes, Kathy Stokes Jelinek, Rosemary Stokes Berens, and Christina Stokes Gale.

The family is grateful for the wonderful care given her by her very special physician Dr. Alicia Cunningham and the entire staff at Maple Ridge Memory Care.

A graveside gathering will be held on Tuesday, May 28th at 11 a.m. at the Hinesburg Village Cemetery.