Obituaries
Obituary: Joan Aitken
A resident of Madison for over 60 years, Joan lived near the beach and loved taking long swims in the Long Island Sound. During the summers, she could be seen almost every day swimming hundreds of yards straight out from Seaview beach and back again.
From legacy.com:
Joan Aitken, 88, of Madison, passed away September 15, 2013 at Yale New Haven Hospital. Born in New York, NY, on June 24, 1925, Joan is the daughter of the late Thomas and Helen (Langdon) Brown. Joan is survived by her two sons Montgomery Aitken of Madison and David Aitken of Santa Cruz, CA; her grandchildren, Alyssa Aitken, Christopher Aitken, Ian Aitken and Laura Aitken; ten nieces and nephews, numerous grand nieces and nephews. ... A resident of Madison for over 60 years, Joan lived near the beach and loved taking long swims in the Long Island Sound. During the summers, she could be seen almost every day swimming hundreds of yards straight out from Seaview beach and back again, using a graceful, slow motion crawl stroke. She was an early sympathizer with the civil rights movement and contributed to civil rights causes in the fifties and sixties. ...
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