95 years and 4.5 months of life! A Most wonderful and Vibrant Life filled with hard work, leadership, and strong friendships.

Elizabeth passed away peacefully in her sleep after a Hip injury complicated by COPD on March 25, 2026.

ELIZABETH K. SHEQUINE, a resident of Millbrook, practiced law in Poughkeepsie, New York. She held a B.A. degree from Pembroke College in Brown University. She attended Villanova University Law School in Villanova, Pennsylvania, and held a J.D. degree from Albany Law School of Union University. She was a member in good standing of the Bar of the State of New York, having been admitted to practice on May 30, 1975.

She was admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, having been admitted on August 12, 1975; of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, having been admitted on September 11, 1975. She was also admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, having been admitted on May 15, 1978. Mrs. Shequine has also been Town Justice of the Town of Washington, Dutchess County, for the past 40 years and is a member of the Training Program Planning Committee for Town and Village Justice Certification of the Office of Court Administration for the State of New York. She completed the Harvard Negotiation Workshop under Roger Fisher at Harvard Law School in June 1986. She was a Director of the Mid-Hudson Divorce & Family Mediation Center and has been an active Family Mediator since September 1990. She was a Practitioner Member of the American Academy of Family Mediators. Mrs. Shequine held advanced practitioner status in the Academy of Family Mediators since 1991, and since the AFM merger with The Association for Conflict Resolution, she has maintained Advanced Practitioner Status with ACR.

She served for almost 20 years as a Director of the Poughkeepsie Savings Bank, and served on the Advisory Board of its successor, Hudson United Bank.  She has served as a Board Member of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, the STOP DWI Board, and has served as a Director and Chair of the Vassar Brothers Medical Center Foundation Board.  She has also been Chair of the Ethics Sub-Committee of Health Quest, the parent organization of the Vassar Brothers Medical Center. She has also served on the Board of Governors of the Millbrook Golf and Tennis Club. She was a member of the Millbrook Garden Club, and the Local Stitchers Group in Millbrook. Mrs. Shequine has served on the Vestry of St. Peter's Church, Lithgow, where she has also served as Senior Warden. People that made the greatest impression on Betsy during her life were Regis Ryan, Brewster Beach, Albert Ogle and Richard Mckeon. Betsy is pre-deceased by her husband James F. Shequine in 2018. Betsy is survived by her son Frederick G. Shequine, and her nieces Anne Cannard, Claire Whistler, Colleen Kissane, Eileen Kissane Muench, and her nephew Timothy J. Whistler and grand niece and nephew Grace and Andrew Cannard. She is also survived by her housekeeper and friend of over 40 years, Jody Fischl.

Donations in Betsy's name can be made to Hudson Valley Hospice (https://www.hvhospice.org/hospicehouse/), though she never experienced Hospice Care, passed too quickly. The family had hoped there would have been time for a gentle end.
A Memorial Service to celebrate Betsy's life will take place on June 6, 2026 at 12:30 pm from St. Peter's Lithgow, Millbrook, NY. A reception will follow at 2pm at the Millbrook Golf and Tennis Club. Arrangements have been entrusted to Allen Funeral Home, Millbrook.