Joanne MacIver passed quietly during the night of Aug. 17, 2023, at the Mountain View Community in Ossipee Village where she had resided these last five years. She would have been 90 in February.
She was the youngest of two daughters, born to Ruth Ann Thomas and Lyle B. Thomas of Littleton, N.H., where she attended local schools.
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