Steeple Lighting

(photo by Mary Steproe)

The Church Steeple Lighting Program was established many years ago as an opportunity for anyone who has any connection to the Lake Sunapee UMC or community to memorialize family, friends, or loved ones. Sponsorship of memorial lighting is reserved on a semi-monthly basis. A suggested donation of $20 for each half month period is gratefully accepted to help with the lighting.

If you would like to participate in this program, please contact sunapeeumc@gmail.org, phone the church at 603-763-4301, or send a note to Lake Sunapee UMC, Attn: Steeple Lighting, PO Box 335, Sunapee, NH 03782.

  • The Steeple Lighting for July 1-15:  the Reid and Holdman families are lighting the steeple in loving memory of Betty J Reid.

  • The Steeple Lighting for June 16-30 is in memory of Alan and Phyllis Mathiesen given by his brother and sister-in-law, Richard and Lorraine Mathiesen. 

  • The Steeple Lighting for June 1-15 is given by Terry and Christine Large in memory of our parents, Jim and Jane Large and Warren and Marjorie Barr.

  • The Steeple Lighting for May 16-31 is in memory of Abbie and Kenneth Cross, Carleton and Ann Cross, Arnold Putney, Carol and Wayne Reeves, Brian and Barbara Akers, John Cross and Robert Wilson given by the Family.

  • The Steeple Lighting for May 1-15 is in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Robert MacWilliams, Larry Collins, and Diane Kangas given by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kangas.

  • The Steeple Lighting for April 16-30 is in memory of Leena Mark who is greatly missed by her friends.

  • Steeple Lighting for April 1-15 is in memory of Lt Col Sherman Rollins, Mrs. Sherman (Eva) Rollins, Mark Rollins, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rollins, Edward Rollins, Lt. Col. Pearl Rollins, and Dorothy Osgood given by Sherman Rollins's dear friends, Margarita and Jose Nunez of El Paso, Texas.

  • Steeple Lighting March 16-31 is in memory of William A and Marilyn Morse from the Morse family.

  • Steeple Lighting for March 1-15 is in loving memory of Great Grammy Janet and Great Grampa Gordon Ramspott from Riley and Jaime Oxland.

  • Steeple Lighting for February 16-28 is in memory of Burton and Esther Bartlett Cady and Mary Bartlett Lenom given by their family.

  • Steeple lighting for February 1-15, 2026, is in memory of our parents, John and Mabel Davies and Nelson and Helen Maurer by Peter and Susan Maurer.

  • Steeple Lighting for January 16-31, 2026, is in memory of my husband, Allen Wirta, my parents, Harland and Dorothy Miller, my brothers, Eugene Miller, Jimmy Miller and Raymond Miller, and my Aunt Teeter Miller given by Evelyn Wirta.

  • Steeple Lighting for January 1-15, 2026, is in memory of Dorothy and Howard Buswell and Helen and Ernest Rainey given by the Robert Buswell Family.

  • Steeple Lighting for December 16-31 is in memory of Mary Moynihan.

  • Steeple Lighting for December 1-15, 2025, is in memory of Joe Hill, other members of the Hill family, and the Parker family given by Jo Hill.

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