On February 7. 2025 after the sun peeked through the clouds our dearest Harriet left this life. She is deeply loved and missed. We will never forget her smile or her chocolate chip cookies. She is mourned by her husband, Bill and her four daughters: Betsy Herman, Kathleen Cullen-Reuther, Mary Drew and Sheila Cullen. She was predeceased by her sister, Elizabeth Bohmrich. She will be missed by her sister, Lois Glahn, and her brother, Roger Bohmrich. She leaves behind nine grandchildren:  Lee, Shana, Gaur, Satya, Rama, Priya, Prema, Nick, and Yordi; and three great grandchildren:  Jahnava, Camden, and Addison.

She was completely a lady who also had her own fire within. She was deeply devoted to the love of her life and husband, Bill. They met when they were only 17 years old and were happily married just shy of 70 years! She had four girls by the time she was 25 years old in a home with only one bathroom. Surely she will achieve sainthood with her patience, gentleness, and loving nature. She kept the home running smoothly and must have invented the figurative phrase – white tornado. She put up with endless piles of laundry, made thousands of homemade meals and the best strawberry rhubarb pie, which was only one of her many creations. She was well known for her spaghetti sauce, lime icebox cake, 'army' biscuits, homemade donuts, Yorkshire pudding and many, many more. All of the children's friends wanted to go to her house after school because they knew there would be something really good to eat. She accepted (with a sigh sometimes) a variety of animals which included dogs, cats, rabbits, gerbils, and the occasional injured bird. She loved her dogs and cats deeply, especially Maggie, Brigid, Ginger, Sweeney and O'Neill. She had a love of beauty, color and light. She made clothing, multiple prom dresses, did needlepoint, crewel, and knitted. She painted with oils and acrylics and eventually had her own residential decorating business. She was always fashionable and put together. She would say, "don't dress busy on the top and busy on the bottom." She loved all colors but none as much as blue. She taught her daughters to be strong, independent and to think of others.

Here are some things she would say when the daughters were young:

"Don't think too highly of yourself or too lowly and always be kind."

"You're not wearing that out?"

"Blue is the only color that matters."

"Never go out with your curlers in."

"Where do you think you're going?"

"Be home before dark."

"Always keep learning new things."

"It's not only about you!"

"Why are you still waiting on him?"

"If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all."

Harriet loved nature and the outdoors. She organized family hikes in West Woods and Hammonasset Beach State Park, Cockaponset State Forest, and sailing on Uncas Lake. We had daily afternoon trips to Jacobs Beach as kids with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches stuffed with potato chips with iced tea. Harriet wanted the family to have an appreciation of art and history and we had many trips to Peabody Museum in New Haven, Connecticut, Natural History Museum in New York City, Statue of Liberty (and Dad had to carry Sheila), and Gillette Castle in Haddam, Connecticut. Thinking of her children's love of horses she took us all to Chincoteague and Assateague Island to see the wild horses. The family enjoyed many camping trips on summer break, traveling up and down the East Coast. Harriet did not enjoy camping, but loved the road trips. Harriet, Bill, and family hiked in the mountains in Colorado after they relocated there. She and Bill traveled all over the West and Southwest to National Parks, but her favorite trip was to Ireland.

Harriet loved to garden, loved flowers and growing vegetables and herbs to make delicious food. She was an avid reader and instilled that in each child. We loved the weekly trips to the library to check out books. She loved the ocean (after all it is blue) and wished for her ashes to be scattered out at sea where she can travel to all the places she did not get to go. We will always miss her and will honor her.

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Flagler Humane Society in her name.