Winifred Carriere, author, publisher

An informal memorial gathering will be held in Ancramdale, N.Y., on Saturday, April 12, at 2 to celebrate the life of author and publisher Winifred Carriere, a Ridgefield native.
Mrs. Carriere died Nov. 29, 2002, at the Sharon Health Care Facility, where she was a resident for several months. She was 90 years old and had lived with her daughter, Anne Carriere, in Ancramdale.
Win Carriere was the author of two books, Cats 24 Hours A Day and Gardening Under Lights. For many years she also published and edited Professional Florist Magazine, a trade publication. One of her widely quioted observations from Cats 24 Hours A Day is “Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.”
Born in Ridgefield on April 20, 1912, Winifred Carriere was the daughter of Richard Osborn and Beulah Sanford. Her father had founded the coal and lumber company that is now Ridgefield Supply, was a chairman of the school board, and a director of the Ridgefield Library.
Until her mid-teens she lived in Ridgefield with her great-aunts, Annie Tallman Osborn and Carolyn Winifred Osborn. She graduated from Syracuse University, where she met and married Albert Carriere, an aspiring playwright. They had one child.
After her divorce she moved to New York City, and began a career in editing, which took her to Prentice Hall, McGraw-Hill and the Institute of Radio Engineers before she entered magazine publishing. She returned to Ridgefield in the 1960s and 1970s, and had a home on Cedar Lane.
The gathering will be at 51 Catalano Road, five miles north of Millerton, just off Route 22.