Rebecca Lyon

Born Rebecca Sterling Lambie in April 1929 in Sewickley, PA, Becky spent her teen years in New Jersey, before her parents moved to Madison, CT. She attended Northfield Academy in Massachusetts and Lasalle Junior College in Boston before marrying the love of her life. After living in Marblehead, MA and Killingworth, CT, she and Dave were among the first to live on West Wharf Road in Madison. While raising two children, Heather and Bruce, she worked as a copy editor at Dushkin Publishing and other companies. Editing dictionaries and encyclopedias meant she knew all the words. Maybe that’s why she could do the toughest of crossword puzzles in ink in no time. But it didn’t mean her kids could ask her to spell things, always answering, “Look it up!”

Becky was an excellent cook and enjoyed trying new recipes into her 90s. She loved reading was a regular at the Scranton Public Library in Madison, followed by years as a volunteer shelving books – although at five feet high, she tended mostly to the lower shelves.

Her creative and whimsical side showed in little touches, like getting up at 5 AM to write poems on school lunch bags, or inventing private jokes personal to her friends and family. For years, she knitted stunning sweaters, although refused to learn to sew. She created beautiful gardens and decorated the house with fresh flowers in season.

She loved travel, and even though she didn’t golf, joined husband Dave on golf vacations throughout the south, west and Mexico, because the spots were so lovely. She and daughter Heather traveled multiple times to Italy and Paris, where at age 70, she fended off three young pickpockets on the Metro. Becky wasn’t sporty but she was fit, for most of her life walking the Madison beach route an hour every day and then joining friends at the gym.

Although she was the oldest sibling, Becky is predeceased by her brother, Alan Lambie and sister, Susan Nesic.

Her family would like to thank Home Instead and her caregivers Michelle and Fatima for helping her to live her final years in the home she loved.

The family will honor her privately as she wished, without services.