Grantham, N.H. - Janet Campbell Amick, 90, died Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009 in her apartment at the Nashua Crossings assisted living facility.

From 1985 until last September, when she moved to Nashua, she lived in Grantham, N.H. She was an avid gardener until her chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) made it difficult for her to get into the garden or to fulfill her other love   volunteering.

Mrs. Amick was a member of the Grantham Garden Club and the Grantham Democratic Town Committee. Always the consummate volunteer, she helped with numerous community and charitable causes, including raising funds for cancer research and designing arrangements from the flowers in her garden to donate for special events.

For many years she served on the Eastman Council as a representative of the Greensward Special Place and on Eastman’s Community Relations Committee and its Hospitality subcommittee. She also volunteered to help Eastman Recreation run such activities as the monthly Pot Luck Suppers and the weekly evening Bridge events. She thoroughly enjoyed playing bridge and the many friends she made while participating in several bridge groups.

While living in the suburbs of St. Louis, Mo. with her husband and three children, she became active in the St. Louis Chapter of the Engineers’ Wives, an affiliation of the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers, and served for several years as its president. She is remembered for establishing the popular “Engineer Wives Cookbooks,” which were sold to raise many thousands of dollars for college scholarships.

When her daughter, Carol, decided to run for the Massachusetts Legislature in the early 1970s and re-election to the Massachusetts Senate every two years through the late 1980s, Mrs. Amick left her home and her husband in Missouri to travel to Bedford where she spent several months at a time volunteering in her daughter’s numerous political campaigns.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Mrs. Amick came to the United States with her family when she was five, and settled in Schenectady, N.Y. She attended the State University of New York for two years but had to suspend her studies during the Great Depression. She worked for General Electric in Schenectady as the chief administrative assistant to the vice president in charge of recruiting engineering graduates from universities across the United States. It was through her work in this position that she met her husband, Charles L. Amick.

Mrs. Amick was predeceased by her husband and her son, Dr. Charles L. Amick. She is survived by two daughters, former Massachusetts State Senator Carol Amick-Moonan of Bedford and Joan Toomey of Carmel, Ind.; seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

In lieu of flowers contributions may be made in her name to the Charles J. Amick Memorial Lectures in Applied Mathematics of the University of Chicago Department of Mathematics, 5734 S. University Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637.

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Chadwick Funeral Service, New London, N.H.
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