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GRANBY - Mary Levy, 63, of Granby, passed away peacefully at Baystate Medical Center on Jan. 10, 2012, surrounded by her husband, three sons, and her brother and his wife, after a brief and unexpected illness.

After a normal active day, she suffered from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm on the evening before her death.

Born in Pittsburgh, she was the daughter of the late Virden and Betty Moore, who lived in Applewood at Amherst for the last part of their lives. Mary is survived by her husband of 33 years, Ben; sons Tim of Belchertown, Jared of Washington, D.C., and Peter, of Amherst; a daughter#in#law, Abby; a granddaughter, Mia (Tim and Abby's child); a brother, Bob Moore and his wife, Peggy, of Greenwich, Conn., and their children Caroline (of Northampton), Matthew, and Jessy.

Mary was a graduate of Wellesley College and then Boston College School of Nursing. She worked as a registered nurse until having children.

While at home raising three boys, Mary developed a small family farm. Mary was a subsistence farmer, growing much of the food that the family consumed including vegetables, milk goats, meat goats, sheep, chickens and turkeys, as well as raising layers for eggs and llamas to protect the other animals.

Once her children graduated from high school, in addition to running the family farm, she became a volunteer at the Hospice Shop in Amherst and a grandmother, taking care of Mia one or two days each week while Mia's parents were working.

She was intimately involved with the cycle of the seasons, including the hard work of gathering and chopping fire wood on the day before her death.

Her dogs benefitted from her attention to animals. She made soup for the dogs from the broth of meat bones, vegetables and rice that was part of each of their meals. Her passion for green building, energy conservation and social issues was expressed in her work on the farm and in arranging merchandise for sale at the hospice shop. Her extended family enjoyed her considerable culinary expertise.

There will be a burial service for immediate family. Open house/calling hours were held earlier this week.

Donations of merchandise or clothing can be made to the Hospice Shop of the Fisher Home, 55 University Drive, Amherst, where she worked several days each week, or memorial donations can be made to Hospice of the Fisher Home, 1165 North Pleasant St., Amherst.