I attended middle school and horseback riding lessons with Debbie Bristol in Goffstown, NH in 1970-73 or so. She was a very good friend of mine during those schoolgirl days. Her family was from Conn. At the time, they lived in Dunbarton, N.H. though they moved away after a few years, perhaps back to Conn. I lost track of her after high school, having moved away myself. I heard thereafter that Debbie had died of meningitis in her first year of college, in 1976 or thereabouts. I tried to reach her family then, but no one seemed to know anything more at the time. The technology just wasn’t there.

It is now about 40 years later, and I’m writing a series of article about riding under the late Charlotte Read, who was also Debbie’s instructor. I have thought about her often through the years.

Debbie would have 3 sisters, all younger. I believe they all had names beginning with D. They would be in their 40s now. Her father commuted to Conn from NH in those years.

Debbie was a very intelligent girl, she was an A student, she had a horse named “Golden.”

Though it has been many years, I still would like to get in touch with any of the Bristol family, if they would be so kind as to contact me. I am in hopes that with current technology, I can make this connection at long last. Thank you.