Born Sept. 6, 1929
Lemay , MO
Died Oct. 7, 1924
Berlin, VT
Details of service
A celebration of Evelyn’s life will be held at the Waterbury Congregational Church on Nov. 2 at 2 p.m. All are welcome. Condolences can be expressed at www.perkinsparker.com.
In lieu of flowers or gifts, the family requests contributions in memory of Evelyn Minter be made to: Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, Friends of the Waterbury Library and/or to the Central Vermont Home Health and Hospice 600 Granger Rd., Barre, VT 05641.
Evelyn Fasnet Minter, 95, of Waterbury Center, passed away peacefully on Oct. 7, 2024, in Berlin, Vermont, surrounded by her loving children and grandchildren.
An avid ice skater and figure skating judge, Ev started her career as a skating pro in Akron, Ohio, shortly after graduating from high school in Lemay, Missouri. The daughter of a paint maker and a homemaker, Evelyn spread her wings by joining the Ice Follies and toured across the country with the famous Follies ice skating show in her early twenties. While on tour she met Bob Minter, of Philadelphia, who was attending Amherst College, and began a long-distance romance until they were married on August 18,1951, while she was on summer break in San Francisco, California.
Ev left the Ice Follies to move to the Philadelphia area with Bob, who joined his family candy business, Minter’s Candies. Ev became a busy, fun-loving mother to four children, raising them in King of Prussia, providing her family with a life filled with adventure, athletics, and fun, including a passion for skating and skiing, which she passed on to all her kids.
In 1978, the family relocated to Providence, Rhode Island, for Bob’s new job where they lived until Bob’s retirement in 1994, when they moved to Waterbury Center to live near their daughter, Sue Minter, and son, Bill Minter. Ev became a respected judge of figure skating throughout New England and a nationally ranked judge for synchronized skating. Throughout her life she has given of herself to her family and her community: she served as President of the Rhode Island Hospital Guild, and President of the Friends of the Waterbury Library, a member of many garden clubs and a driving force behind many skating clubs.
Evelyn was a loving grandmother for her five Vermont grandchildren, helping to raise and care for them, as well as a growing list of grandchildren and great grandchildren who came from around the country each year for a giant annual family Christmas gathering at her Waterbury Center home, “the Big House”. She enriched her family and welcomed others to join her family, with laughter, kindness, dedication and a huge heart.
Ev remained in her Waterbury Center home until 2023, when she moved into the senior living community at Assisted Living and Memory Care at Chestnut Place in Berlin, Vermont.
Evelyn is survived by her children and their families: Sue Minter and David Goodman (Waterbury Center, VT), and their children, Ariel and Jasper; Bill and Dawn Minter (Waterbury Center, VT), and their children, Jacob, Sophia and Maroni, and his son Ezekial; George Minter and Annalie Hudson Minter of Phoenixville, PA., and his children, Thomas and Hannah, and step daughter Gillian Wenhold, and great grandchildren Teddy and Scarlett; and Maggi Landau of Scarsdale, N.Y., and her children, Sarah and Casey, and Sarah’s children, Abigail, Logan, Laine and Rory. Ev was predeceased by her husband Bob (2010) and her eldest son, Bobby Minter (2001).
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