Doris Frances (Hardy) Crosby was born in Beverly, Massachusetts on April 11, 1930. She passed away peacefully on Sunday, January 15, 2023. She was the beloved wife of Wendell Lewis Crosby, also of Beverly, from 1952 until his death in 2002. Doris is survived by her brother Richard McKenney and his wife Amelia; her three daughters and their husbands, Ellen Crosby and Jim Leonard, Cynthia Crosby and Dennis Kawasaki, and Pamela and David Follett; her grandchildren Christopher, Margaret, and Brendan; and her great-grandchildren Marie, Thelma, and Aiden. She was the sister of the late Thelma Virginia (Hardy) Pasquali. Doris graduated from Beverly High School (Class of 1948), Bates College (Class of 1952) and Salem State College, where she earned a Master of Education. She taught junior high and high school mathematics throughout her career, eventually becoming the go-to geometry teacher for Danvers High School for over a decade.

After retiring to Parsonsfield, Maine in 1985 Doris redirected her skills into the machine knitting world, teaching invited seminars and writing books such as “Cabled Sweaters for the Standard Machine,” after someone foolishly told her there were things one could do with knitting needles that could not be done on a knitting machine with a bed of 200 latch hooks.

In 2001, Doris moved to OceanView in Falmouth, Maine where she joined a vibrant senior community of retired professionals. She thoroughly enjoyed the variety of lectures, hikes, and tours with new friends. She began traveling as she had always intended, exploring places that caught her interest across Alaska, Northern Canada, Iceland, Northern Europe, China, South America and Africa. She was very pleased to have taken the Three Gorges River Cruise while it was still possible.

A Memorial Service celebrating her life will be held this summer in Maine at Lake Balch where the family has spent summers since 1962.