Naomi McCullough

Naomi McCullough moved her family to Vermont on a whim in 1968, after seeing a picture of Lake Champlain in a magazine. The single mother of four was a nurse and spent her career working at psychiatric hospitals and nursing homes. Her daughter Tommie Murray says she used to call her mom a lot.

"I would call her just to figure out how to cook something, or if I was ticked off at somebody or, you know, I got a new job or I bought something ... [The grandkids] thought she was a hoot, because she would come out with something just like crazy. She could have a mouth like a truck driver, and they would all laugh and think she was hysterical, and she was."

Naomi McCullough died on April 11, 2020 at Birchwood Terrace in Burlington. She was 89.

Tommie Murray remembering mother Naomi McCullough

Burlington, Vermont