Richard & Isabelle Westcott

There are quite a few long- time loyal employees at Grace Cottage, but not many who, like Isabelle Westcott, can claim more than 40 years’ tenure.

The very first issue of Cottage Door, published in July 1989, lauded Isabelle as “our super- woman.” The publication listed Isabelle’s many duties: running Dr. Otis’s private practice; typing physician’s hospital summaries and X-ray reports and policies and procedures for the nursing staff; collecting and distributing mail; providing refreshments for meetings; coordinating the “Blood Run” to Brattleboro Hospital, “plus anything else you can think of for Gal Fridays.” Since then, she has worked in Grace Cottage’s Business Office and at Heins Home.

Isabelle has also served as Second Vice President of the Hospital Auxiliary, was coordinator of the Fair Day food booth for many years, church clerk, member of the Eastern Star and Legion Auxiliary, and a member of three snowmobiling clubs. Thank you, Isabelle, for sharing your talents with Grace Cottage all of these years.