Doris Moffitt Delozier

June 11, 1933 – October 20, 2024 

“... To die, to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream... for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause.” 

Hamlet’s soliloquy was a favorite and she taught it to numerous High School students throughout the span of her 39-year teaching career. 

Doris was born in Hartford, VT. The second child of six, to Arthur James & Lena Forrest Moffitt. The family was raised in nearby Lebanon, NH. 

Doris was destined to be an educator while still in 8th grade, selected to teach a 5th grade classroom by herself. Other accomplishments at Lebanon High School included 4 yrs of Field Hockey, Choir and Head Majorette. 

Continuing her passion for learning she enrolled and excelled at Plymouth Teachers College (Plymouth State University). Bearing the financial burden herself, Doris worked various jobs year-round while also attending classes. She was fond of recounting tales of the famous celebrity acts & socialites she and other staff meet while working at the Lake Tarlton Club Resort. She graduated with honors in 1957. The following semester she began teaching at Memorial Jr High School in Laconia, NH. She remained a steadfast professional in the Laconia school system until retiring in 1996. She developed the Reading as a Second Language program and was honored to head the English department/Reading Lab at Laconia High School. Doris was also an active member of the Altrusa Club, Zonta of the Lakes Region, St. James Episcopal Church & Laconia’s Teachers Assoc. 

During those years she earned her Master's degree from Boston University 1967, and notably, summer Teaching Fellowships at Harvard University 1984-87. Although she wrote a number of published guide books, the only one she displayed among her cherished leather bound classic book collection was a thin paperback study handbook she commissioned her daughter to illustrate. 

She enjoyed decades of golf & social life at Laconia Country Club and in later years loved to travel domestically & abroad, specifically to historical sites described by the literary masters. 

Doris will be remembered by her students as strict but fair. She expected them to succeed, and therefore they did. She will be remembered by her colleagues as a positive role model, conscientious and hard-working. 

She will be remembered by all that knew her as a woman of impeccable style and manners. The consummate hostess with the fast wit and dry, razor-sharp humor. Needless to say, accompanied by a barbed tongue if deemed necessary. 

Foremost, she was a devoted Mother and Grandmother. 

She is survived by her daughter, Tracy Lacaillade Lynch and three grandchildren, Curtis Hauschildt, Margarethe Hauschildt and Davis Lynch, her sisters June Moffitt Hamilton and Marion Moffitt Lewis, dear nieces & nephews. 

She is preceded in death by an infant son, Aaron Jay Lacaillade, with her first husband Dr. A. John Lacaillade, two brothers Raymond and Stanley Moffitt and a sister Colleen Moffitt Dixon and Doris’ beloved husband of 30 years, Dean K. Delozier.

A private service will be held at a later date.