Dorothy Aldrich Atwood, 84, of West Hartford, CT, died on November 12, 2018. Born on March 19, 1934 in Hollywood, CA, she was the daughter of the late Dorothy Richardson Aldrich and the late Dr. Walter Seward Aldrich, a physician, psychiatrist, and Lieutenant in the Navy during WWII.

She is survived by two sons, John Dickinson Atwood III and wife Nancy Diamond, of New York, NY, and Thomas Richardson Atwood Sr. and wife Pamela Atwood, of Amston, CT; a sister, Mary Anna Aldrich; a brother, Walter Reed Aldrich; three grandchildren, Ginger, Thomas, and Charlotte.

She graduated, with honors, from Stanford University in 1955 with a degree in engineering and specialty in architecture and earned a master’s degree in architecture from Harvard University. She practiced architecture until her retirement several years ago.

She was known for civic projects such as a renovation of the Boston YWCA and the design of modernist residences on the coast of Maine. She worked for other firms, in addition, at various points in her career, including Dober Lidsky Craig & Assoc. (now Dober Lidsky Mathey) where she planned buildings for colleges and universities around the world.

Her husband, John Dickinson Atwood Jr. of Pine Point, ME, whom she met at graduate school, died in 1990. He was a city planner for towns across New England and founded a company to build monorail transportation systems. They resided in Boston where she remained until 2015. She continued to visit their second home in Maine until her last summer. She loved to play piano, bake with her grandchildren, and read by the sea.

Memorial services will be conducted on Saturday, November 17, 2018, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Carmon Funeral Home, 807 Bloomfield Ave., Windsor, CT 06095. A graveside interment and remembrance will take place at the Orr’s Island Cemetery in Maine sometime in 2019.

Memorials may be made in the name of Dorothy Atwood to the American Parkinson’s Disease Association, www.apdaparkinson.org or the Orr’s & Bailey Islands Fire Department, Orr’s Island, ME, www.obifd.org.

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