Leslie Batten

LONDONDERRY, NH - Leslie Batten, 79, passed away on December 19, 2024. He was born on July 5, 1945, and grew up in beautiful Waits River, Vermont with his three sisters Mary, Linda, and Virginia, and brother Randall. He witnessed the town fire when he was young which had a great impact on him.
He graduated from Bradford Academy and Castleton State College. He loved to learn and teach science and math. His fifth-grade class financed and ran a radio station. He was proficient at hands-on and cooperative learning methods.
He was a handyman and able to build and repair in creative and inventive ways, which included T.V. and radio repairs and creating beautiful stained-glass creations. He was also no sit-a-round couch potato as he was always busy with work, family, or engaged in his other wide variety of hobbies, collections, and interests.
He worked many years for Digital Corporation as a technician in Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. He also had other jobs, which included the Bradford Veneer Mill, Contract work, Macks Apple’s/Moose Hill Orchards, Copy Cop and as a Summer Camp Counselor.
He married Cynthia Jane Bigelow on July 1, 1972, and together they raised two sons: David Leslie (Charlene) Batten and Daniel Scott Batten. They also had a daughter, Amy Christine (Keith) Yampanis.
His interests included gardening, wilds plants (especially ferns and mushrooms), camping, family gatherings, classical music, concerts at Tanglewood, space and space travel, watching Star Trek, cooking and eating good food. He also enjoyed photography, writing conversations with God, colored and stained glass as well as telling jokes and puns. He loved having coffee and engaging in conversation and Barnes and Nobles and hiking the Audubon Center Trails/bird watching.
He enjoyed a strong Christian Faith, which sustained him through many complicated medical challenges and helped him maintain a positive outlook and a fighting spirit. He was predeceased by his parents and two sisters: Virginia Batten and Linda (Roland) Putney. His survivors include his wife, three children and three grandsons: Tyler (Ellen) Bennett, Jacob David Batten and Alexander Reid Batten, and his sister Mary Alice (Lynette Cash) Batten and brother Randall (Lori) Batten, and many cousins, nieces, and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Food Bank in Vermont or New Hampshire.
The memorial service will be held in Waits River in the Summer. Arrangements are in the care of Hale Funeral Home, 187 Upper Plain in Bradford.