Obituary: Adrienne Soule
September 6, 1952 – January 24, 2025
March 1, 2025
Adrienne “Addie” Soule, 1952-2025
Adrienne Soule of Waterbury Center passed away on January 24, 2025. She was known as Addie by one and all.
Addie was born on September 6, 1952. She grew up in the suburbs of Kansas City. She attended the University of Kansas and made her home with Stephen Schonberg in Lawrence, Kansas. The couple had four children. Addie moved to Vermont in the early 1980s and lived on Maple Street in Waterbury Center for almost 40 years.
In her early years in the area, she was well known at the desk of the Ski School at Mount Mansfield. She studied nursing at the University of Vermont while working and raising her children and made her career as a Registered Nurse. Many knew her as a COVID vaccinator with Waterbury Ambulance Service during the COVID years or as the school nurse at Waterbury Elementary School, but she was active in other nursing roles that ranged from working as a dialysis nurse to working as a Ski Patrol nurse.
Notably, she worked for more than a decade in clinical research at the University of Vermont and her name appears as co-author on scores of published scientific papers. She also worked in clinical research in Alaska on a vaccine study, flying in and out of remote villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim tribal organization.
Addie coordinated blood drives in Waterbury for the Red Cross for many years. Her great love was working with mothers and babies. She worked as a home health nurse and volunteered to visit new mothers and babies with Good Beginnings of Central Vermont and as a “cuddler” of premature infants in the University of Vermont Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. As a nurse and volunteer, she touched the lives of hundreds, never forgetting the name of a mother or a baby. She had a great sense of humor. Nobody will ever forget the sound of her laugh.
Addie was mother to four children who were the light of her life and grandmother of 10. She is survived by her husband of 15 years, Stephen Soule of Waterbury Center, and her children Anna Schonberg of Los Angeles, Jonathan Schonberg of Stratford, Connecticut, Micah Schonberg of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and Emily Salib of Penfield, New York.
Addie was a tower of joy and happiness to all who knew her. She will be sorely missed. A remembrance and celebration of her life will be held at her home in Waterbury Center in the summer. Donations in Addie’s memory can be made to Good Beginnings of Central Vermont.