Frances Rousmaniere Storrs ’31

Frances R StorrsFrances Rousmaniere Storrs of Oyster Bay, New York died April 22, 2013 peacefully at home at the remarkable age of 100.

Her charitable life began in 1929 at the age of 16, when she worked for the summer in Hyden, Kentucky, where her mother’s family had funded the Frontier Nursing Service three-room hospital, and rode horses through the back hills to help provide medical care. For the rest of her life, she devoted much of her energy to helping others through a multitude of charities, including Planned Parenthood, Visiting Nurse Services, the Oyster Bay-East Norwich Boys and Girls Club, the Oyster Bay Waterfront Center, Friends of the Bay and many others.

She and her husband Richard were leaders in creating Oyster Bay’s East Woods School in 1946 and she served for many years on its board. Her inquiring mind led to travel all over the world, plus regular courses at Long Island’s Hutton House even into her nineties.

“Frinnie” graduated from Chapin School in New York City and was one of Chapin’s longest-serving Class Secretaries. From its purchase in 1955 to 2013, she opened her house in Cove Neck to all, welcoming any organization that asked to use the house for a fundraiser or wedding.

A devoted wife to her late husband “Dick,” she was a loving mother to her six children: the late Nick (Jeanie) of Lunenberg, Massachusetts, Ayer Bellerman of Oyster Bay, David (Landon) of Southport, Connecticut, Ginny Akabane (Gige) of Lenox, Massachusetts, Nancy (Jack) of St. Catherines, Canada, and Cleveland, of San Diego, California, and enjoyed tremendously their stories of travel, sports and academic achievements. She cherished her seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren and in her nineties was often on hands and knees playing games with them.

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  1. Unbelievably my parents were wed at Cove Neck in 1967. I attended WNS from 1989-1991 and never knew of this incredible connection. The last time I was in Cove Neck was 1976. I’ll never forget the pond as we drove in, the pool, the ballroom and the cozy carpeted living room with the cabinet full of toys and puzzles underneath the book shelf!

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