BRICE FRANCES (BROWN) BUCKMAN
March 9, 1922 - January 2, 2020
BRICE FRANCES (BROWN) BUCKMAN Obituary
Brice passed away on January 2, 2020. She was born March 9, 1922, in Addison, Maine to Mildred Eva (Look) and Frank Wesley Brown. She grew up and worked on the Brown family farm in Cherryfield, Maine, where she graduated from Cherryfield Academy in 1939 as class salutatorian. She married James Bernard Lehneman, II. and they moved their family from Portsmouth to Ashland, NH in 1949. She later married Harold Buckman. Brice lived most of her adult life in Ashland receiving the Boston Post Cane Award in 2018 and where she was a lifetime member and Past Noble Grand of Rebekah Lodge #67. She worked at LW Packard Woolen Mill in Ashland, the NH Greyhound Racing Commission in Concord and as an auditor for the State of NH Health & Human Services, Division of Elderly and Adult Services until her retirement. She resided in Ashland until 2018 when she moved to Peabody Home in Franklin. She loved playing the piano, gardening, berry picking, hiking, braiding rugs, coin collecting, taking trips to Maine, and spending time at camp on Millsfield Pond. She also participated in the Granite State Senior Olympics. She is survived by a son Barry and wife Virginia Lehneman of Gilford, and two daughters - Helen and husband Ronald Jackman of Port St. Lucie, FL and Beatrice and husband Donald Thibeault Sr. of Center Harbor; and a step-daughter Emily (Buckman) Green of Sharon, VT. She is also survived by 13 Grandchildren: Pamela (Lehneman) Furbush, Alysia Lehneman, David Lehneman, Jim Lehneman IV, Jodi (Lehneman) Landry, Jennifer (Lehneman) Smith, Jack Lehneman, Greg Jackman, Jennifer (Jackman) Brocklehurst, Donald Thibeault Jr., Kathleen (Thibeault) Hall, Rebecca (Thibeault) Maletsky, and Scott Thibeault and 28 Great Grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. She is predeceased by two husbands – James Lehneman II and Harold Buckman, her long-time companion Norman Lyford, a son James Lehneman III, two brothers Charles Brown and Arthur Brown, and two sisters Susie Brown, and Mona (Brown) McHatten. A memorial Service will be held at St Mark's Episcopal Church 18 Highland Street in Ashland at 11:00 AM on Saturday, January 18, 2020. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to: Loon Preservation Committee, 183 Lees Mill Rd., Moultonborough, NH 03254 or at www.loon.org. Dupuis Funeral Home in Ashland is assisting the family with final arrangements. For more information, go to Dupuisfuneralhome.com.
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Brice passed away on January 2, 2020. She was born March 9, 1922, in Addison, Maine to Mildred Eva (Look) and Frank Wesley Brown. She grew up and worked on the Brown family farm in Cherryfield, Maine, where she graduated from Cherryfield Academy in 1939 as class salutatorian. She married James Bernard Lehneman, II. and they moved their fami
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