Kristin Thelvarda (Coakley) Sears, 79, of Falmouth died on Dec. 29. She was the wife of Harold H. Sears.
She was born and raised in West Orange, N.J., and spent summers in Falmouth. In 1946 her parents, John C.F. and Thelvarda Coakley, bought the old stone barn, a landmark on Route 28A in West Falmouth, and remodeled it into a year-round home.
She and her husband, along with their two children, moved to Falmouth permanently in 1968.
Ms. Sears owned the Vineyard Wine Shop in Oak Bluffs and assisted her husband with his businesses on the Cape and Martha’s Vineyard. Her daughter, Wendy A. Child, owned the Fence Rail store in Falmouth. Ms. Child died in 2007.
In addition to her husband, she leaves her son, Clayton C. Sears of Falmouth, and five grandchildren, Lindsay, Jack, and Samuel Child, and Benjamin Sears and Taylor (Sears) Devine.
Services have been held.