Anita (Coxe) Kuhn

SALISBURY — Anita (Coxe) Kuhn, 93, died on Sept. 17, 2014, in Sharon. She was born in her grandfather’s house on Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1921. She graduated from the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pa., in 1939. She was a direct descendant of America’s first architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, who is best known for his design of the United States Capitol. In 1939, she participated in the newly established Experiment in International Living study abroad program, which took her to Austria and Germany on the eve of World War II. She enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1943, ending her service as a sergeant in 1945. She then moved to Baltimore, where she worked at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University. In 1948, she married John L. Kuhn, a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State. She led a fascinating life as a diplomatic wife and mother living in five overseas posts: Johannesburg, South Africa; Marseille, Strasbourg and Paris, France; and Rome, Italy, in addition to Washington, D.C. Following her husband’s retirement in the early 1970s, Anita moved to Salisbury with her husband. She became active in the Millbrook Garden Club and the National Society of the Colonial Dames. For many years she also presided over the Fall Festival at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Salisbury. In her later years, Anita returned to her love of the outdoors and was an avid hiker with her many beloved dogs. She moved to Noble Horizons in January, where she quickly became an integral member of the community.Anita was predeceased by her husband, Jack; her son, William Speer Kuhn III; and her three sisters, Letitia Crosby of Franconia, N.H., Eleanor Morris of Pottstown, Pa., and Elise Felton of Southwest Harbor, Maine. She leaves behind her three beloved daughters, Marian Browning of Salisbury, Eleanore Boyse, who with her Foreign Service Officer husband, Matt, lives in Wiesbaden, Germany, and Jacqueline Kuhn of Salisbury. She was also the devoted grandmother of Anya and Slava Browning and Fentress, Natalie and Derek Boyse.The funeral service and burial will be held at Trinity Episcopal Church in Lime Rock on Sept. 26 at 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Noble Horizons, 17 Cobble Road, Salisbury, CT 06038.Arrangements are under the care of the Newkirk-Palmer Funeral Home.