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PostHeaderIcon PRISCILLA COBB WINSHIP of AMHERST, MA, February 2, 1924 – February 20, 2014

AMHERST, Priscilla Cobb Winship died peacefully on February 20, 2014 at the Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst, Massachusetts.  Born Priscilla Turner Cobb on Feb. 2, 1924, in Oneonta, NY, she was the daughter of Professor J. Stanley Cobb (agronomy, Pennsylvania State University) from West Groton, New York and Elsie M. Johnson from Oakland, Pennsylvania.  She was predeceased by her husband, John Trimble Winship (2000) from Cleveland, Ohio and her brother J. Stanley Cobb Jr. of Martinsville, Virginia (2011).  She is survived by her children, Lawrence Johnson Winship of Amherst, Massachusetts, Carol Winship McNab of Hopewell, New Jersey, and Elizabeth Louise Winship, of South Hadley, Massachusetts; and several nieces and nephews, and three grandchildren. 

Throughout her life Priscilla loved being outdoors and as a young woman, spent many happy hours with her father hiking and hunting on Mount Nitanny, Centre County, Pennsylvania.  She was an avid skier and delighted in paddling around the lake at Whipples Dam in her graduation present from State College High School, a canvas covered open seat kayak.  An excellent botanist, she designed, built and cared for wonderful gardens wherever she lived. 

Priscilla began her education in the public schools of State College, Pennsylvania.  She was always interested in mathematics, science and engineering, so it is not surprising that she took time away from her undergraduate studies at Penn State in 1943 to work for the Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Company as an Engineer Cadette, training at Cornell University.  The Cadette program was one of many efforts during the World War II that recruited women into formerly all-male professions – these pioneering women made a significant and vital contribution to the winning of the war.  Priscilla graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Pennsylvania State University in 1945. While a senior at Penn State, she was awarded a U.S. Department of Agriculture Fellowship, which enabled her to do graduate work in experimental foods and household equipment.   She went on to earn a Master of Science degree in Home Economics from the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in Ames, Iowa.  She began her career working for International Harvester, where she was the director of research and food testing in the Food, Freezer and Refrigeration Department. 

Priscilla then moved, following her marriage to John Winship, to Cleveland, Ohio, where she joined the Home Economics Department of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, a widely circulated daily newspaper.  At the Plain Dealer, Priscilla was in charge of the testing laboratory, and wrote a weekly column from 1950 to 1952 on food preparation, preservation and homemaking. 

With the birth of her first child, Priscilla left the news business to become a full-time homemaker and mother. She still made time to be actively involved in community and church activities.  In 1962, Priscilla moved with her family to New Jersey so that her husband John could take up a new career in journalism.  They lived in Allendale, New Jersey, where Priscilla was a founding member of the Highlands Presbyterian Church, and a central figure in the life of the church.  All through her time in New Jersey, she could be found serving meals on wheels, leading Girl Scout and Brownie troops, and managing the church finances.  Somewhere in the whirl of caring for her family and her church, she also found time to make dozens of fabulous, much cherished quilts as a central member of a quilting group that met weekly for 30 years. 

When her grandchildren were born, Priscilla moved to Amherst, Massachusetts where she and her husband John lived in the Upper Orchard condominiums.  Her grandchildren, Molly and Grace Winship, have many fond memories of the time they spent with Grandma learning to cook and sew, to garden and to make paper and pine cone turkey place cards for Thanksgiving dinners.  Following her husband’s death in 2000, Priscilla moved into an apartment at the home of her son and his family in Amherst, where the traditions of large happy family dinners, gardening and elaborate, brilliant sewing projects continued.  She will be greatly missed.

Interment will be in the columbarium at the Wildwood Cemetery in Amherst, MA at the convenience of the family. No public memorial service is planned, but as the flowers come again in the spring, think of Priscilla, and rejoice in the renewal of life, as she did every year of her remarkable life.  In lieu of flowers, please send gifts to the Hospice at the Fisher Home, Amherst, MA. Obituary and memorial register at www.douglassfuneral.com.

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