Patricia ‘Pat’ Walsh Berntson of Milford, New Hampshire, Dies April 18

Patricia “Pat” Walsh Berntson of Milford, New Hampshire, died on April 18 at the Hillsborough County Nursing Home in Goffstown, New Hampshire. She was 93.

She was born in 1930 in Flushing. She graduated from the College of New Rochelle. She lived in Hampton Bays during the 1970s and early 1980s.

After raising her children, she worked in real estate, first in Quogue, and later in Milford. In 1991, she became the manager of Zahn’s Alpine Guesthouse in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, where she worked for many years before retiring in 2008.

She enjoyed tennis, volunteer work, playing cards and, in general, being with people. While living in Milford, she was active in the Milford Area Seniors Center. She frequently joined in the Milford Second Friday Song Circle. She attended the Milford Unitarian Universalist Church, where she sang with the choir, and later attended the Church of Our Saviour in Milford.

“Pat put a smile on the face of those who knew her,” her family said. “We will miss her greatly.”

She was predeceased by her husband, John Harry, in 2010; her sister, Jacqueline Chea, in 2016; and her granddaughter, Wendy Brown, in 2020. She is survived by her three children, her son, Eric Berntson and his wife Kathy of Blue Point, her daughter Donna Brown and her husband Archie “Chipper” of Milford, and her son John Kurt Berntson and his wife Brenda of Hampton Bays. She is also survived by several grandchildren and one great-grandchild, Kristoffer Berntson and his wife Edie and their son Aleksander, Lauren Berntson and her partner Megan, Alyssa McLoughlin and her husband Kevin, Clara, Sawyer and Colby.

A memorial service will be held at Christ Episcopal Church in Bellport at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 8. Her ashes will be placed with those of her husband at the Long Island National Veterans Cemetery Columbarium in Farmingdale.