Genevieve May Cowham Saunders, age 91, passed away on December 27,2016 at the Universal Health Care facility in Fuquay-Varina, NC.  She was born May 5, 1925 to the late Richard and Bertha Simpson Cowham.


She was married to Arthur Saunders who predeceased her in 1987, and was also predeceased by a sister, Joyce Carvutto and a brother, Thomas Cowham.  She is survived by a sister, Patricia (Robert) Vadas and nieces and nephews.

She was born, raised and lived in Cannondale Section of Wilton, CT, until moving to Fuquay-Varina, NC, in 1996.  She was a long time secretary at the Pederson Golf Manufacturing Company in Wilton and later worked part-time as the early A.M. open-up-person for the Wilton YMCA. She also worked at a telephone answering service in Ridgefield, CT.  She was a member and active in both the Zion's Hill United Methodist Church and Cannon Grange #152.  After moving to NC she joined the Kipling United Methodist Church where she became active and was a member of their Senior Group.

She was interred next to her husband at Hillside Cemetery in Wilton.  Funeral arrangements were handled by the Bouton Funeral Home, Georgetown, CT.