May 12, 2021
Carol Christine Cutbill, devoted mother and grandmother, artist, lover of animals, a Delaware and early American history buff, died Saturday, May 8, 2021. Born Carol Christine Comlish, she was 88.
A longtime resident of Lewes, she served as a docent at the Zwaanendael Museum for years, earning recognition from the Delaware Division of Historic and Cultural Affairs for her contributions. She was also a volunteer at the Lewes Historical Society. Her smiling, engaging ways and her love of people meant she never met strangers, only new friends.
Carol Cutbill filled her historic home on Shipcarpenter Square with local antiques, family photos, and her own beautiful oil paintings, watercolors and charcoal sketches. Beach vistas, lighthouses and other ocean scenes were the subject of her artwork, out of a love for the shore which started as a child growing up in the tight knit community of Lordship, Conn., in a home just a few minutes walk from the edge of Long