Amherst, Phyllis Fairweather Agard, died peacefully at home on Friday August 5, 2016, she was the daughter of  Harold D. Fairweather and Maude Agard Fairweather, was born in West Hartford, CT in 1920. She graduated from West Hartford High School and received an associate degree from Pratt Institute of Design in New York City.  In 1942 she married Robert Mason Agard of Williamstown, MA. The couple spent their early married years, during WWII, in Washington, DC, where Phyllis worked for the War Department as a mapmaker. 

The couple raised their family in Ripon, WI; Richmond, IN; Amherst, MA; and North Bennington, VT. In 1983, after Robert Agard retired, they returned to Amherst. At that time Chamnan Koy, from Battambang, Cambodia, joined the family. Robert Agard died in 2003. Phyllis Agard continued to live in their family home, latterly with her youngest daughter and family.  

Phyllis and her husband were active members of Mount Toby Friends (Quaker) Meeting in Leverett, MA, serving as Clerk and participating on a number of committees.  Phyllis was active in community service, most notably mental health care, low income and accessible housing, and refugee resettlement.  

Phyllis is pre-deceased by her husband, three sisters and two brothers, and by granddaughter, Amber MIller. She is survived by daughters Anne Agard, Ellen Agard, Jennette Agard, Susan Agard Krause and Chamnan Koy Tan; by grandchildren Tristan, Amalia and Margaret Krause; Katherine Silgard Stewart and Emily Silgard; Tiffany, Melanie, Emily and Andrew Tan; and by great grandchildren Drake and Ewan Stewart.

Final arrangements are being handled privately by Douglass Funeral Home in Amherst. In the manner of Friends (Quakers) a Memorial Meeting will be held at a later date.