Carol Bernier Thomson

Carol Thomson, 84, passed away peacefully during the early morning hours of March 5, 2022 after a period of failing health.

Born Carol Joan Palmer on July 31, 1937 in Iowa City, Iowa to the late Delphus and Carmen (Hansel) Palmer. Carol spent her early years moving from state to state – 9 total - while her father worked as a sales representative for Link-Belt Speeder Corporation. The Company moved the family to Hopkinton NH from upstate New York where Carol entered her freshman year of high school and spent the next 25 years.

Carol graduated from Hopkinton High School in 1955 and attended Fisher Junior College in Boston for one year where she learned typing and shorthand among other office skills of the day.

Following school, she married her first husband, Floyd Bernier with whom she raised three children. After her children were mostly grown, she resumed her secretarial career, first with the New Hampshire Petroleum Council, then with Cleveland, Waters, & Bass law firm, and finally with Orr & Reno from where she retired after 24 years.

In retirement she enjoyed traveling with her late husband, Don Thomson, in their 5^th wheel. They spent many winters in Alamo, Texas, returning to their home in Weare, NH during the warmer months. The couple enjoyed square dancing for many years and Carol was an avid reader as well as an excellent seamstress and quilter.

Carol is survived by her children, Robin English and her partner, Mark Waugh of Surry, Maine, Roxi Decato and her husband Tom of New Hampshire and Arizona, and her son Timothy and his wife, Sheila, of Concord, New Hampshire. She was particularly fond of her grandchildren, Kate Moody and Patrick Faulkingham of Maine, Ben Decato, his wife Lily of Thousand Oaks CA, and Sandy MacDuffee, her husband Mac of Salisbury, NH. She was delighted to become a great grandmother last September when Lini Decato was born.

She is also survived by her several aunts, uncles, and cousins