Joan Deming Ensor, 103, who lived virtually all her life in Redding, Conn., died June 9 at Pillsbury Gazebo Apartments in South Burlington, Vt.
She spent many years as the Redding reporter for The News-Times of Danbury, Conn.
Her stories also ran in The Newtown Bee, the then-Bridgeport Post, and The Hour of Norwalk, all in Connecticut.
She wrote a series of articles called On the Town for the Redding Pilot, recounting early 20th century life as she knew it.
She combined the columns into a two-volume book, “On the Town: Growing Up in Long-Ago Redding,” and “On the Town: Some Later Years in Long-Ago Redding.” She was a co-author of the “Book of Trails,” a guide to a network of public trails.
Ensor was a Democratic deputy registrar of voters and a member of the Democratic Town Committee. She also was a member of the Redding and Regional boards of education. She spent 12 years as a member of the Zoning Commission.
Ensor leaves two daughters, Imogen and Sally; two stepdaughters, Celinda and Persis; three grandchildren, Katie, Seth and Noah; three step-grandchildren, Chris, Becky and Aaron; three great-grandchildren; four step-great-grandchildren.
The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondent Nimra Aziz, an undergraduate student in the Northeastern University School of Journalism.