Elizabeth L. (Kagarise) Denier, who lived in Saugus for many years, died on Thursday, October 29, 2026.
She was born in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, a small town in the Allegheny foothills, the daughter of Fred and Hulda Kagarise. She went to Waynesburg University in the southwestern corner of the state, and it was there that she met Thomas Denier, whom she married and who died before her.
Her career was in archives, at the Roosevelt presidential library in Hyde Park, New York, the oldest of the presidential libraries, where she spent many years among the papers of the Roosevelt administration. Away from the reading room she rode a bicycle, square danced and was an active member of Presbyterian Women.
She leaves her sons Thomas and Timothy and Timothy’s wife Mary, her daughter Anne, and her brother John and his wife Dorothy.
At her request there will be no visiting hours. A memorial service will be held at a later date at the Freedom Plains United Presbyterian Church in LaGrangeville, New York. The family suggests memorial gifts to Heifer International or the Carter Center. Arrangements are by the Robinson Funeral Home in Melrose.
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