Rockport — Ellen was born into a jewelry manufacturing family in Attleboro, back in the days when schoolbooks referred to the city as part of the “Jewelry Belt of America”. She and her earlier-deceased older brother, Warren, spent their childhood summers at the family cottage in West Falmouth and were each graduated from Attleboro High School. Musical and linguistically talented like her mother, she played the piano and violin for school orchestra productions. She was also an organist, first for her Methodist, and later for her Episcopal church. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa class of 1942 from Wellesley College, the alma mater of both her mother and her aunt. Married soon after, she leaves behind three daughters, Marcia Storkerson and Rebecca Thompson of Sweden, Maine, and Barbara Goll of Rockport. Other surviving relatives are son-in-law, David Johnson of Sweden, Maine; grandson, Douglas Thompson and wife, Elisabeth; great-grandchildren, Owen and Alice Thompson; also grandson, Andrew Thompson and his wife, Heather, and great-granddaughter, Ronnie.
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