The Memory Care Aides report that they woke Susan at ~6:00 AM on Friday, 12-06-2024 and that she blinked a few times and then stopped breathing. That marked the end of the greater than 3 years that Susan's muscles and voice had been prisoner of dementia
Susan arrived conventionally at a downtown hospital on 6-05-1932  . Her parents were Ethel and Maurice Snell of South Brookline, MA. After the mandatory hospital stay, Susan was brought to the Snell household, her home until she was married in 1953.
At the appropriate age, Susan was enrolled in the prestigious (and nearby) Baker School (8 grades). Next came bussing to Brookline High School and friendship within a circle of ladies.
Predicting her future, Susan spent a few summers as a 'comptometer' operator.
In September of 1949, she became a Freshman, in Chemistry, at Simmons University but remained living with her parents.
Susan met her future husband, Stanley Solomon, in March 1949 at a Newton Temple's acquaitance dance for their appropriately aged daughters and MIT freshmen. We began dating every other week for the rest of the spring.
On her 1st college summer vacation she was hired as a waitress at a heavily Jewish hotel in Bethlehem, NH. She earned her Simmons Tuition. Her fame spread and for the next summers she was the Roll Girl at the MT. Washington hotel.
During 1950 we decide that we indeed should get married but economic considerations indicated that we must wait until both on us graduated. We did that.
.After graduating from the Institute in June of 1952, with my parents, Rose and Bill Solomon of Youngstown, OH in attendance, I was off to Ohio State University with a physics fellowship.
As I was not happy with Physics at OSU and they were not particularly happy with me, I felt a change was necessary. I obtained a fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh in Biophysics.
I came back to Boston a little over a week before June 16 so that we could attend of two sets of friends.
When it was time to get to Pittsburgh, I think one one of my Youngstown uncles drove us, our clothes and a few wedding presents to the Pittsburgh apartment we had rented.
Susan job looked through the University of Pittsburg system and ended up working for an  English doctor in the Public Health Dept. She worked as a secretary who did not type but understood what was going on.
I was quite pleased with Biophysics and was busy growing things and analyzing growing conditions when I received a letter. It was from my Draft Board in Youngstown. They set a date for me to report in Youngstown. I was sent to Fort Knox, KY for 16 weeks of training with the Patton's 3rd Armored. I don't know what Susan did or where she went. When I finished Basic Training, I was assigned to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio TX for blood letting training. When I  I found I would be there for 16 weeks, I arranged for Susan to come to Texas and found an off post apartment. Susan went job shopping through the 4th Army. She  got a job from a bird colonel in 4th Army Headquarters who quickly realized he had hired someone well above normal. He began by taking Susan on inspection trips and then having Susan do the inspections alone.
When I finished my training, I was about to be sent to a small military hospital in Washington DC that looked after House of Representative families when Susan's boss decided that would be a waste and called the Surgeon General's office and asked to have me transferred to the Surgical Research Unit at Fort Sam. I was assigned there as extra strength  personnel. I had a quite productive time at SRU.
When I was discharged, we headed, now with a car, to Boston  with a visit stop in Youngstown and a pregnant Susan.
We organized our lives. I would look for employment in the Boston area. Susan would be a homebody. We settled in a large rental garden complex in Waltham named Garden Crest. Susan went to Cambridge Adult Education to learn to cook. They were professionals and found  Susan to have the characteristics of a great cook.
Our 1st son, Daniel was born and Susan became a learning mother.
When we had saved enough to buy a house, we moved to Lexington and stayed in that house for 50 years until paying people to do things I could no longer do made the cost of living higher than that of The Commons in Lincoln.
What Susan did during those 50 years separates
into daytime and evening contributions. The daytime activities divide into 2 parts, contributory and remunerative. While we had children in the Lexington elementary system, Susan put in many hours at Estabrook doing the nitty gritty necessary to support what the teachers needed to have done. Being there to help was the mark of this effort. Susan was hardly alone. Lexington's Middle and High School were not organized to use this kind of help but the same schools recognized that Boston's inner city schools did need that kind of help and organized to have Lexington mothers present for a day per week in those schools. Susan was active in that field for many years.
The focus of night time activities was Town Government. Susan was an elected Town Meeting member until we left Lexington. She even survived one jerrymander. She spoke quite forcefully when she believed verbal coercion was helpful. Susan was a long time member of the Conservation Commission and accepted 'promotion' to The 'Senior Conservation Crew' when it appeared that new faces were desirable. Susan's Conservation interest were not on building regulations but on CONSERVATION. Susan usually worked at the polls on election days.
Remunerative activititechnical information electronically. They did not do well. She moved on to marketing for a new technology named machine vision. This name stuck until someone was able to manufacture useful knees. Machine vision  2 or 4 kness became known as robuts.)
I believe Susan would identify her most important achievements as:
#1 Getting Julia Childs to modify her Beef Wellington recipe in the 2nd edition of her cook book because the water content of American beef is higher than that of French beef. This causes the middle layer of her Beef Wellington to disappear if the 1st edition recipe is used with American beef.
#2 Getting New Zealand's previous World Cup Racing entry managers to evaluate a machine vision device for reading and adjusting the main sail.

A private service was held followed by interment at Westview Cemetery, Lexington.