Carol Edgelow Howe, 93, died Sunday, April 30 at Pioneer Ridge Health Center in Lawrence, Kansas.

Carol was born July 14, 1923 in Springfield, Massachusetts, the oldest of four daughters of Arther F.G. Edgelow and Cybel K.S. Edgelow. She attended the MacDuffie School in Springfield and Bishop Strachan School in Toronto, Canada. She graduated fromWellesley College in 1945.

Sher married the Reverend Halsey DeWolf Howe in 1946. During their 61-year marriage, they lived in Springfield, Massachusetts, Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, Hamilton, Massachusetts, Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, Providence, Rhode Island, Springfield, Vermont, Rockland, Maine and Boothbay Harbor, Maine.

She was a writer and gardener all her life. She began a gardening column for newspapers in 1974 and had a nearly unbroken record of weekly columns until the final column (“Grow It In Maine) in September 2016, just before moving from Boothbay Harbor to Lawrence, Kansas to be near three of her children.

Carol volunteered for many projects and organizations through her life. She loved to sing an always found a choral group to join, no matter where she lived. She had a deep concern for the natural world and a longstanding interest in eliminating hunger. As a member of Garden Writers of America, she actively promoted the public service program, Plant a Row for the Hungry.

Her husband predeceased her in 2007.

She is survived by her sister, Margaret Hale of Peterborough, New Hampshire; her children, David (Barbara Smiley) of Bend, Oregon, Faith (Charles Lavaty) of Madison, Wisconsin, Mark (Sarah) of Burlington, Vermont, Deborah of Lincoln, Massachusetts, and Mary (Richard Stein), Thomas (Kate Dinneen) and Priscilla, all of Lawrence, Kansas; grandchildren, William Stein (Naomi Welch), Timothy Howe, Dylan Howe, Skyler Howe, Cecelia DeKorne, Helen DeKorne; and by many nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to your local food pantry, and if you have a garden, plant a row for the hungry in Carol’s memory.

Funeral services will be held at St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, Boothbay Harbor, on Friday, May 19 at 2 p.m. Friends and family are encouraged to wear bright colors to Carol’s Service.

Hall’s of Boothbay has care of the arrangements. To extend online condolences, please visit hallfuneralhomes.com