Rosemary Haughton Hunt Todd of Hollis, N.H., and a longtime summer visitor to the Vineyard, died peacefully in her daughter Rosemary’s home on Saturday, Feb. 18, at the age of 102 and a half while enjoying her favorite coffee ice cream cone.

She was born on July 15, 1909, in Atlantic City, N.J., the daughter of Antonina Laurie Clark and Reginald Mortimer Campbell. She was raised in New York city by her mother and stepfather, Charles Edwin Hunt. In 1931, she received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Cornell University where she was president of the Tri Delta sorority. After her three children were grown, she received a master’s in education from Michigan State University in 1964 and became a reading consultant at the middle school level.

She met her future husband, Stanton Wesley Todd Jr. of Grand Rapids, Mich., while living in New York city. After a six-month courtship, mostly by mail, they were married in New York at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 1935. Following a honeymoon on Nantucket, they moved to Grand Rapids.

A lifetime volunteer, Rosemary was a member of the Grand Rapids Junior League and president of the East Grand Rapids PTA and the Butterworth and Blodgett hospital guilds. She was an active member of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and involved with church and political activities in western Michigan. She had great appreciation for the arts and spent many years as a docent at the Grand Rapids Art Museum.

Rosemary had a love of learning and took continuing education courses throughout her life. An avid reader, she at one time was a member of four different book groups; she played golf for many years at Kent Country Club in Grand Rapids. She traveled the world and enjoyed visiting her son at Macatawa on Lake Michigan and her daughters on Abel’s Hill in Chilmark. She adored the Vineyard, the salt air, the birds and the opportunity to spend time with grandchildren and great-grandchildren and many friends. She and her centurion friend, Rose Treat, were regulars at the West Tisbury Congregational Church’s ice cream socials during their last years.

Rosemary had friends of all ages and made great efforts to keep in touch, remembering birthdays and special occasions. Even as an elderly person, she was always willing to try new ideas. After 64 years in the Midwest and a widow at age 90, Rosemary moved east to Summit, N.J., to be near her daughter Sally. She transferred to the Junior League of Summit, joined Calvary Episcopal Church and took theatre trips to New York city. At 93, she moved again, this time to Hillcrest Terrace, a retirement community in Manchester, N.H., where she lived for six years before residing with her daughter Rosemary in nearby Hollis.

In June 2011, Rosemary attended her 80th Cornell reunion, the first 80th celebrated by Cornell. The news was covered by the Associated Press, and she was seen on Good Morning America, the Today Show, interviewed for radio shows and in newspapers across the country. She became an overnight celebrity and reveled in the excitement. As she said afterwards, “Didn’t we have a blast.”

Mrs. Todd was predeceased by her husband, Stanton, in 1998, after 63 years of marriage; her sisters, Virginia Campbell Sprague and Nina Hunt Merriam and brothers, Robert Osborne Hunt and James Shepherd Hunt. A devoted mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, she is survived by her children: Rosemary Todd Clough of Hollis, N.H.; Sally Todd Solmssen and son in law, Hans, of Summit, N.J. and Chilmark; and Stanton Wesley (Tony) Todd 3rd and daughter in law, Gail, of Winnetka, Ill.; her 12 cherished grandchildren:, Martha Clough Engeman, (and husband, David Morse), John Hastings Clough (and wife, Marion), David Todd Clough (and wife, Kimberly), Benjamin Richards Clough (and wife, Elizabeth), Thomas Haughton Clough, Christopher Todd Solmssen (and wife, Courtney), Kate Solmssen Stephan (and husband, David), Andrew Barnard Solmssen (and wife, Bonnie), Cortney Todd Cameron (and husband, Mark), Stanton Wesley (Cory) Todd 4th (and wife, Natalie), Kaley Clark Todd, Kathryn Gayl Todd (and husband, Kelly); and 21 beloved great-grandchildren.

A memorial celebration of Rosemary’s long life will be held on Martha’s Vineyard next summer. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Central and University Avenues, Ithaca, NY, 14853.