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Ruth Richardson Montgomery, 91

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Ruth Richardson Montgomery, 91, of Carleton-Willard Village in Bedford, MA passed away on September 28, 2021, after a short illness. She is survived by her children, Charles Richardson Skeele (Jennifer), Harrison Fowler Skeele (Virginia), Sarah Hayden Post, and her stepdaughter, Cynthia Kowalski (Ronald), her sister, Alice Hayward Forker of Columbia, MO, her seven grandchildren and five step-grandchildren, her four great-grandchildren and five step-great-grandchildren. A graduate of Adelphi Academy (1948) and Mount Holyoke College (1952), Ruth and her former husband Robert and their children lived in Nassau, Bahamas, from 1955 to 1964, in New Canaan, CT from 1964 to 1975, and in Houston, TX from 1975 to 1982. Thereafter, she lived in Darien, CT with her late husband Sigmund John Montgomery who predeceased her in 2017. In 2020, she moved to Massachusetts.

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Tony Thompson, 87

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Tony (Carlton Woodruff) Thompson died, surrounded by family, Monday night, September 20. After outrunning the condition for years, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis finally, and quite suddenly, caught up with him. 

Tony was born in 1933 in Flushing, NY and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Phillips Academy Andover, finished high school at the Harvard School (LA) and graduated from Stanford University. He was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, flying helicopters from Japan at the end of the Korean Conflict. Tony’s sister, Nancy, introduced him to her UC Boulder roommate, Nancy McDonald and he married the love of his life in 1960. 

In the first phase of his career, he had myriad roles in half a dozen cities at Time-Life, Inc., including Associate Publisher of LIFE Magazine en Español in Mexico City, running Time-Life Books South Pacific in Sydney Australia and, finally, helping to start (and, legend has it, coin the name for) Home Box Office (HBO) in New York.

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Thomas Lawrence McLane, 89

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Thomas Lawrence McLane died peacefully on Friday September 10, 2021.  Near him were his children, Beth, Jen, and Brad; and his granddaughter Haley.   He lived an active and engaged life until just after his 89th birthday, then slowly declined due to a number of underlying conditions.  A memorial service will be held at 11:30 AM Friday September 24, 2021 at St. Mark’s Church in New Canaan, CT with an outdoor reception immediately following. Tom was born May 3, 1932 in New York City to William Lawrence McLane and Elizabeth Fish Benjamin McLane.  They soon migrated to New Canaan (home of his grand and great grandparents).  He grew up on Silvermine Rd with siblings Betsy, Jamie, and Greer.  He attended the Little Red School House, New Canaan Country School, St. George’s (Newport, RI), then Warwick College (UK) for a PG year while deferring admission to Yale.  He was very involved at Yale with rugby, St. Anthony’s, college hockey, the Glee Club, and his beloved Whiffenpoofs.  He graduated in 1954 concurrent with being commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the Air Force via the ROTC program (later honorably discharged as a Captain from the reserves).

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Katherine M. Reilly, 98

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Katherine McLachlan Reilly of New Canaan passed away at home on September 9, 2021. She was 98. Kay was born April 2, 1923 in Danbury, Conn., the daughter of George and Katherine McLachlan. She graduated high school from the Convent of the Sacred Heart Noroton and from Rosemont College. She married Lawrence H. Reilly Jr. and they raised their family in Darien starting in 1954.

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Allison Garver Caesar, 100

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Allison Garver Caesar, born in Manhattan, New York in 1921, celebrated her 100th birthday and peacefully passed away on July 8, 2021. She lived an extraordinary life filled with love for her family, friends, philanthropy, fashion and, of course, flowers. Allison was married for 63 years to Henry A. Caesar II and, after moving to New Canaan, CT in 1940, raised four boys – Sanderson Caesar (Elizabeth), Porter Dean Caesar II (Susan), Austin Brewster Caesar (Margaretta) and John Garver Caesar.  In turn, those boys gave her the joy of her 8 grandchildren: Allison, Sara and Rob; Laura and Andrea; Brooke, Tyler and Lauren and 13 great grandchildren. She attended the Chapin School in New York, then spent two years in school in Gstaad, Switzerland before returning to the US to attend Westover in Middlebury, CT. Allison lived a life of giving, not only to her family and devoted friends, but also to many organizations, both national and local.  She had a great love for the arts and for her home city of New York and actively supported MOMA and the Metropolitan Opera.  But her greatest support was for her community here in New Canaan.