Antoinette Otis

PLAINFIELD – Antoinette “Toni” Otis, 94, beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, and friend passed away on Saturday, September 17, 2022, returning to her Heavenly Father.

Born on August 30, 1928, in Fort Kent, Maine, she was the daughter of Alfred and Delia (Boucher) Campbell. She was one of six children.

On January 28, 1951, she married Eugene Otis in New Britain, Connecticut. Together they welcomed five children.

In her younger years, Toni worked as a nanny, a waitress and a hostess, and she also ran a machine in a plastic factory.

In her leisure time, she enjoyed dancing, all types of music, gardening, crocheting, visiting with family and friends, watching basketball and Judge Judy were her favorites!  Toni will be best known for her quick smile, her sense of humor, her ability to make you feel valued. She had a gentle nature and was grateful and would often say thank you. Whenever she exchanged I love you’s with someone she would always say I love you more cause I’m older!

Survivors include her children Roger P. Otis of Barre, VT; Renette Cressey and her husband, Earl of South Carolina; John Otis and his wife, Paula of Connecticut; and Rita Harvey and her husband Allyn of Plainfield, VT; her 10 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren – whom she had great love for and made each one feel like a favorite when they came to visit.

In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband Eugene Otis, her son Rene Otis and her companion Harold Foster of Graniteville.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Shriners’ Hospitals for Children, c/o the Memorial Program of Mt. Sinai Temple No. 3 for the benefit of Shriners’ Hospitals for Children, PO Box 742, Montpelier, VT  05601-0742.

The service to honor her life will be held on Saturday, October 15, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 224 Hersey Road, Berlin, VT. There are no calling hours.