Obituary: Evelyn Fasnet Minter
September 6, 1929 – October 7, 2024
October 11, 2024 WATERBURY CENTER – Evelyn Fasnet Minter, 95, of Waterbury Center, Vermont, passed away peacefully on October 7, 2024, in Berlin, Vermont, surrounded by her loving children and grandchildren.
Evelyn Fasnet Minter, 1929-2024
Evelyn was born on September 6, 1929, in Lemay, Missouri, the daughter of George Fasnet and Miriam Thory.
An avid ice skater and figure skating judge, Ev started her career as a skating pro in Akron, Ohio, shortly after graduating from high school in Lemay, Missouri. The daughter of a paint maker and a homemaker, Evelyn spread her wings by joining the Ice Follies and touring across the country with the famous Follies ice skating show in her early twenties. While on tour, she met Bob Minter of Philadelphia, who was attending Amherst College, and they began a long-distance romance until they were married on August 18, 1951, while she was on summer break in San Francisco, California.
Ev left the Ice Follies to move to the Philadelphia area with Bob, who joined his
family candy business, Minter’s Candies. Ev became a busy, fun-loving mother to four children, raising them in King of Prussia, providing her family with a life filled with adventure, athletics, and fun, including a passion for skating and skiing, which she passed on to all her kids.
In 1978, the family relocated to Providence, Rhode Island, for Bob’s new job where they lived until Bob’s retirement in 1994 when they moved to Waterbury Center to live near their daughter, Sue Minter, and son, Bill Minter.
Ev became a respected judge of figure skating throughout New England and a nationally ranked judge for synchronized skating. Throughout her life she has given of herself to her family and her community: She served as president of the Rhode Island Hospital Guild, and president of the Friends of the Waterbury Public Library, as a member of many garden clubs, and as a driving force behind many skating clubs.
Evelyn was a loving grandmother for her five Vermont grandchildren, helping to raise and care for them, as well as a growing list of grandchildren and great-grandchildren who came from around the country each year for a giant annual family Christmas gathering at her Waterbury Center home, “the Big House.” She enriched her family and welcomed others to join her family, with laughter, kindness, dedication and a huge heart.
Ev remained in her Waterbury Center home until 2023 when she moved into the senior living community at Assisted Living and Memory Care at Chestnut Place in Berlin, Vermont.
Evelyn is survived by her children and their families: Sue Minter and David Goodman (Waterbury Center) and their children, Ariel and Jasper; Bill and Dawn Minter (Waterbury Center) and their children, Jacob, Sophia, Maroni and his son Ezekiel; George Minter and Annalie Hudson Minter of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and his children, Thomas and Hannah, step-daughter Gillian Wenhold, and grandchildren Teddy and Scarlett; and daughter-in-law Maggi Landau of Scarsdale, New York, and her children Sarah and Casey, and Sarah’s children, Abigail, Logan, Laine and Rory.
Ev was predeceased by her husband Bob in 2010 and her eldest son, Bobby Minter in 2001.
A celebration of Evelyn’s life will be held at the Waterbury Congregational Church on Nov. 2 at 2 p.m. All are welcome. In lieu of flowers or gifts, the family requests contributions in memory of Evelyn Minter be made to: Friends of the Waterbury Public Library, Central Vermont Home Health and Hospice, and Planned Parenthood of Northern New England.
Condolences may be made online at perkinsparker.com.