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 Lida Spofford
June 26, 2004
Lida Spofford, 95, of Kimball Farms died Saturday at home.
She was a businesswoman, local civic leader and community volunteer for more than 50 years.
Born in Lower Montague, Prince Edward Island, on Dec. 20, 1908, daughter of Capt. Harry Allen Davis Cameron and Margaret May Hewitt Cameron, she was a 1925 graduate of Attleboro High School. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1930 from Acadia University in Nova Scotia and another in 1931 from Simmons School of Social Work in Boston. She also did graduate work. She moved to Lenox in 1934.
Mrs. Spofford was owner and operator of Elise Farar's, a women's specialty clothing shop, which she purchased in 1953. She acquired Mme. Fillion's clothing shop in 1955. She ran the shop in the Hotel Wendell building in Pittsfield until it was torn down, then on the Pittsfield-Lenox road in Lenox in a remodeled carriage house.
She also restored the adjacent house. She retired in 1993 and sold the buildings. Earlier, she had been a social worker with the Red Cross and the Family Service.
She was director of the Taxpayers Association and the Berkshire Family and Children's Association, president of the League of Women's Voters and chairman of the former Pittsfield General Hospital Auxiliary.
She was president of the Girls Club, now Girls Incorporated, and led a highly successful fund-raising effort that renovated the club building and added a swimming pool.
She also was national president of the Girls Club from 1959 to 1960, and a member of the boards of the Berkshire Retirement Home, Berkshire Country Day School, Berkshire Museum and Edith Wharton Restoration. She was an incorporator of the former City Savings Bank. She also was a member and past president of the Junior League of Pittsfield.
A member of First Baptist Church of Pittsfield, Mrs. Spofford served on its finance and investment committees. She was a member of the board of trustees that oversaw the creation, development and building of the Kimball Farms retirement community and, after moving there in 1991, chaired several committees.
Her interest in reading and needlework led her to visit Europe, Japan, China and Canada.
Her husband, David Keith Spofford, whom she married June 18, 1932, in Attleboro, died Oct. 10, 1975.
She leaves two daughters, Judith S. Gibson of Short Hills, N.J., and Brenda S. O'Neil of Lorton, Va., a sister, Dorothy C. McLeod of Delray Beach, Fla., and two grandsons.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- A memorial service for Lida Cameron Spofford, 95, of Lenox, who died June 26, 2004, will be conducted Friday, July 9, at 2 at First Baptist Church of Pittsfield by the Rev. Dr. Robert M. Rennie, senior minister. Following cremation, burial will take place at a later date in the Cameron family plot in Woodlawn-North Purchase Cemetery in Attleboro.
There will be no calling hours. She also leaves her two grandsons, David S. O'Neil and Capt. Cameron M. O'Neil. She was predeceased by a brother, Ralph D. Cameron, and two sisters, Helen E. Judson and Gwendolyn Laurence.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Girls Inc. or to the Edith Wharton Restoration Foundation in care of the DERY FUNERAL HOME, 54 Bradford St., Pittsfield, MA 01201, which is in charge of arrangements.
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