Bequests of over $36,000 each to the Norfolk Library, the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department and the Norfolk Lions Club Ambulance have been made from the estate of Dorothy Ford Battistoni, who died in April, 2006.

Born in 1918, she lived all her life at the former dairy farm on the corner of Doolittle and Loon Meadow Roads. Her brother’s farm in East Canaan is still in operation. The family has deep roots in the community, reaching back at least to the immigrant Irish workers who built the railroad.

Mrs. Battistoni, whose husband died in 1952, was a legal secretary at a firm in Winsted for nearly sixty years. She remained alert and physically active throughout her life.

Among her other bequests was one to the Fidelco Foundation in Bloomfield, CT, which trains seeing eye dogs.