Elizabeth Price died suddenly of an apparent heart attack March 21, 2019 at age 88 at her home in Atkinson NH. Her full name was Elizabeth Agnes Katherine Cowap Price, and she was born May 16, 1930 in Guildford, Surrey, England to parents Charles "Dick" Richardson Cowap III and Agnes Isobel (Pike) Cowap. Her father was from Chester, Cheshire, England and was an officer with the Cunard Lines steamship company. He had the Southampton to New York route and he met Agnes in New York. They had a wonderful love affair, married and lived in Guildford. Their marriage was all too brief when Dick died of cancer in 1939 when Elizabeth was 9, her brother Charles was 7 and sister Carol was 3. Agnes then brought the family to the U.S. and they resided in Pelham New York.

Elizabeth graduated from Smith College with a degree in English. One college summer she was working as a waitress at the Basin Harbor Club in Vergennes Vermont when a young man named Bill Price was driving a laundry truck and saw her on the lawn reading a book in a certain pair of shorts. On August 31, 1954, that romance turned into a devoted marriage that lasted for 42 years when Bill died of prostate cancer in 1997. She kept that pair of shorts for decades until she couldn't fit into them anymore.

They were a couple devoted to each other, to several Episcopal churches they attended, and to their children, Susan, Bill (also known as Billy) and James (known as Jamie in his younger years). They bought White Oaks Farm, a century old farmhouse in Sherborn Massachusetts in 1957 and lived there until they sold it in about 1995 and moved to a condo in Fearrington Village North Carolina. Elizabeth continued to live there in the winters after Bill died in 1997 and she summered at the family vacation home "Thendara" in Ferrisburg/Vergennes Vermont. This beloved spot has been the gathering place for extended family (biological and otherwise) for decades since its purchase in 1960. She sold the place in Fearrington in 2007 and moved back north to be closer to family and was living in Atkinson New Hampshire when she died.

Her husband Bill was a stock broker and bond fund manager and in 1974 Bill and Elizabeth became the proprietors of St Julien Macaroons, a bakery business baking macaroons from an original French recipe using almonds, egg white and sugar. That blossomed into a mail order business run by Elizabeth from a desk in a spare bedroom with a rotary phone, an electric typewriter and shoe boxes with index cards for the customer database. James now runs this business from Sandown New Hampshire and has brought it into the next century allowing for credit card orders and ordering online at macaroons.com. Elizabeth loved to continue to help out with the more menial but very necessary tasks of folding paper packaging for these delectable cookies, stuffing envelopes for mailings, and sending and delivering macaroons to friends and relations far and wide. She used to pay her eye doctor in macaroons he loved them so much and she was all too happy to oblige!

Elizabeth was known for her keen interest and devotion to prayer. She had a heart to serve, a phenomenal listening ear, a love for those who were hurting and was greatly involved in prayer ministries and retreats throughout her adult life, mostly within the Episcopal and then Anglican church. Her home church of Christ the Redeemer Anglican in Danvers MA was her home away from home. She loved her fellow prayer warriors, her ladies Bible study, and the liturgical Anglican style of worship and music.

She had an incredible way with the written word from a sympathy note for a pet who had died to a vivid description of the bird and squirrel activity in her back yard in a letter to a homesick daughter at college overseas. She absolutely adored reading - Calvin and Hobbs, Father Cadfael mysteries, histories of England, classics (like Jane Eyre), Dorothy Sayers, C. S. Lewis, her Bible and everything in between. She called books her friends and would read and reread her favorites over and over. Her house was set up so that she had a chair in every sunny spot and would move from spot to spot throughout the day to capture that sunshine, often with a cup of tea by her side.

To say that Elizabeth is going to be missed is such an understatement. She was introverted and quiet but possessed great fortitude. She rarely complained about her life trials and illnesses. She had a thankful and grateful heart for all the blessings she had in life that many people would see as mundane and ordinary. She had a way of getting people to talk by asking thoughtful and insightful questions and she really listened to their answers. And if it didn't seem like she listened, it was because of her hearing problems, not because she didn't care! She cared about everyone and had an incredible capacity to see the good in every single person and easily forgive their faults and weaknesses.

Elizabeth outlived her parents and both of her siblings. She leaves behind her three children Susan Price-Batting and husband Dann Batting of Brentwood NH, Bill Price of Groveland MA, James Price, wife Nancy "Niki", and grandson Ian of Sandown NH, grandson James Price II, wife Tyler and great-granddaughter Hailey of Lakewood OH.

A memorial service will be held at Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church in Danvers MA on Saturday April 27, 2019 at 1pm. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation at the link: https://team.curethekids.org/fundraiser/2015660 in the name of Ian Price, Elizabeth's grandson who has steadfastly been battling a brain tumor for 6 years.