Audrey Stoddard, 84, of Carlisle MA died peacefully at home on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 surrounded by her loving family. Audrey, affectionately known as Didi to her family and friends, was born October 17, 1934 in New York City to Ezekiel Stoddard and Mary Alice Waller Stoddard. She spent her formative years living in Washington D.C. where she attended The Madeira School and Sweet Briar College in Virginia. After college she taught English at Madeira for five years before moving to Cambridge, MA to pursue a graduate degree program in Mathematics at Harvard University. Didi then began a career teaching Mathematics at The Concord Academy where, during her tenure from 1960-1974, she made lifelong friendships and patiently guided hundreds of students through the mysteries of Algebra, Geometry and Calculus. She also served as a college guidance counselor at Concord Academy for a number of years. After retiring from teaching, she embraced her many other passions: cooking, traveling, gardening, golf, tennis, reading, entertaining, long walks with her dogs and in recent years spending time with her grandson Tyler. She turned her lifelong love of cooking into a cookbook, The Idylwilde Farms Cookbook, in 1993. Didi loved travelling and did so extensively and adventurously, having reached 6 continents by her final trip to Australia and New Zealand in January 2017. Because of her enthusiasm for gardening and her gift of a green thumb, she would often be found outside, most likely in shorts, sandals and a bathing suit from April to October, only reluctantly donning socks and closed toed shoes as the first frost approached. Her vegetable and flower gardens and eye for landscape design have been admired by many. Didi settled in Carlisle in 1971 and never moved. On May 27, 2004 she and her long time partner Jesselyn Tobin were married in Truro, MA. She and Jesselyn split their time year round between Carlisle and their home "Winnie's Run" in Truro, named after their beloved Springer Spaniel. As a close friend recently reflected, Didi was devoted, loyal, passionate, intelligent and stubborn; a person who did not suffer fools gladly. She had a wonderful laugh, sparkling eyes and an impish smile when she knew she was being naughty. Her marvelous, witty, dry sense of humor never left her and she was overheard still making a quip or two just the day before she died. Didi is survived by her spouse, Jesselyn Tobin; daughter Heather Abrams, her husband Clayton and their son Tyler of Carlisle; cousins Dorothy Sturges of Sonoita, AZ, Rush Sturges of San Francisco, CA, Rebecca Scott of Cambridge, MA and Katharine Bracken of Pleasant Hill, CA; extended family Philip Noyce of Lowell, MA, Meredith Dilger of Oaxaca, Mexico, Courtney Fraser of Concord, MA, Jennifer Leone of Lancaster, MA, Fontaine Richardson of Carlisle, MA, Marie Richardson of Menlo Park CA, Bill Richardson of Basking Ridge NJ and their families. Didi was preceded in death by her parents and her sister Sheila Bentley of Gloucester, MA. A memorial service will be held at the Elizabeth Hall Chapel at Concord Academy, 166 Main Street, Concord on Sunday April 7th at 10 am. A short graveside ceremony will follow the service for those who wish to attend at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, 200 Bedford Street, Concord. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made in Didi's memory to Planned Parenthood (www.plannedparenthood.org) and The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (www.aspca.org). Arrangements are under the care of Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service of Concord.