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Eileen B Hanford

Darien, CT

February 26, 1948 - December 3, 2021

Eileen B Hanford Obituary

With heavy hearts but boundless love and appreciation, the family of Eileen B. Hanford announce the December 3rd passing of their beloved wife and mother at the age of 73. Born in 1948 to Anna and Peter Brabazon, Eileen B. Hanford was the youngest of 7 children and made a point of letting everyone she met know this about her. She attended St Andrew Avelino School and Mary Immaculate Boarding School in Ossining, where she graduated in 1966. Despite her parents’ wishes of Katherine Gibbs Secretarial or Nursing School, Eileen attended and received her associate's degree from Laboratory Institute of Merchandising (LIM) in 1968. She met the love of her life, Skip Hanford, at a Kings Point Block party in 1965. They tied the knot in 1968 on the water at Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy. The very next day, Eileen and Skip headed west to start their life and family together. Pretty quickly the two became 5 with the births of Tamara Anne, Melissa Lee, and M. James. Always a native New Yorker with her Irish Roots, Eileen very quickly inherited the West Coast as part of her heritage and certainly left a part of her heart in San Francisco when she returned home to the East Coast and settled in Darien in 1981. Her adoration of Darien was immediate and became one with the community. Eileen was passionate about her town and even more so about selling Real Estate in Darien. Her commitment to her business over the last forty years and ensuring that her clients found the ever-perfect home or had the most seamless sale was always of paramount importance to Eileen. She was passionate about living her life to the fullest and she did live her best life. She had an answer and reason for everything and the magic to make you feel better when you were at your worst. She touched the lives of so many and was able to connect on a deeper level than most. Eileen had a very special gift of making a difference in the lives of all whom she met. She believed with all her heart that everything happens for a reason. When not selling houses, you could find her sneaking off into NYC to Bergdorfs or the Mark Hotel. She was happiest at the beach on the ocean where she always felt her mother’s presence. Above all else, her heart and soul were her family. She adored her husband, cherished her children, and loved ferociously her grandsons. Our lives are forever changed. She is survived by her husband, Maurice, daughters Tamara and Melissa, son M. James (Stephanie ne Johnson), four grandsons Charlie (16) and Henry Hughes (12), Hunter (12) and Finn Hanford (10), 2 older brothers Bernard Brabazon and Peter Brabazon and two older sisters, Mary DeSousa and Elizabeth Feulner and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, December 8, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Thomas More Church 374 Middlesex Road in Darien. Her interment will follow at Spring Grove Cemetery. Calling Hours will be held on Tuesday, December 7, from 4 to 8 p.m. in the Lawrence Funeral Home 2119 Post Road in Darien.

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