Valerie Margaret Hungerford died on July 12th, in New Haven, Connecticut. A long-time resident of Milford, and, earlier in her life, of Amherst, New Hampshire, Valerie served as the Parish Administrator for the Church of our Saviour, Milford, for over two decades.

Valerie was born on May 29, 1938 in Dunbar, Scotland, the fourth of six children of the Reverend F. Barrie Flint, of the Church of England, and Mary Wenn Flint. She was raised in the Cotswolds and in Surrey, where her life-long love of nature and her strong and abiding faith were nurtured. Valerie attended grammar school until the age of 16, then completed a secretarial course at Barnsley Mining and Technical College. She worked as an administrator throughout her life, sharing her gifts of writing, organization, humor and compassion with many.

Valerie came to the United States in 1961 for a six-week stay at the home of the writer Walter D. Edmonds (her brother’s father-in-law), in Concord, Massachusetts. She met her future husband at the Appalachian Mountain Club in Cambridge, and never returned to live in the UK. She became an American citizen and raised her three daughters in Amherst, New Hampshire. She remained close to her large English family until the end of her life, as daughter, sister, aunty, and god-mother.

For many years Valerie kept the books at Impressions, a pottery shop on South Street in Milford owned by good friends Robert and Allison Oxford, later becoming the Parish Administrator at the Church of Our Saviour, Episcopal, in Milford, of which she and her daughters were members. Valerie could often be found helping at SHARE or visiting homebound members of the church, always going above and beyond her duties behind the desk. She retired in her mid-seventies, and moved to New Haven, Connecticut in December of 2021.

Valerie is survived by two daughters, the Rev. Laura Bachmann (Charles Bachmann) of Pittsford, New York, and Amy Hungerford (Peter Chemery) of New Haven, Connecticut; five grandchildren and two grand-dogs; and by her extended family in the UK, France and Australia. Her eldest daughter, Holly Hungerford of Charlotte, Vermont, predeceased her on July 8, 2011. A celebration of Valerie’s life will be held at a date to be announced at the Church of Our Saviour; she will be buried, in a private ceremony, next to her daughter Holly in Charlotte, Vermont.