Elizabeth Graeme Welsh died peacefully at her Provincetown home on March 27, 2025. The cause was complications of diabetes. She was 72.

The daughter of Robert and Janet Post, Elizabeth was born on March 6, 1953 in Manchester, Conn., where she grew up. Her father was a plumber who had served with the Seabees in the Pacific in World War II, and her mother was the supervisor of nursing at Manchester Hospital.

An independent, free-spirited girl, her summers were spent happily with the family vacationing each year in Provincetown.

She graduated from Manchester High School in 1971. When her parents bought the Bull Ring Motel in the early 1980s, Elizabeth followed them to Provincetown. Her life changed when she met Charlie Welsh. “It was love at first sight, and they never left each other’s side,” her children wrote. They married at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House in 1985.

Their home nurtured her extended family, and it became the unofficial home to the neighborhood kids, open to anyone day or night. People came by asking Charlie in his role as district court magistrate for help; no one was turned away.

Elizabeth was “an astounding homemaker, wife, mother, and grandmother,” her children wrote, and a voracious reader, reading a book a day. She took courses in creative writing at Cape Cod Community College.

She turned a barren lot on which her house stood into a beautiful garden, “a lush paradise that was a sanctuary for her and Charlie,” wrote her children. At a plant sale, she always chose plants that were almost beyond saving in order to bring them back to life, which she relished. “She could transform a commonplace found object into an eye-catching piece of art,” her children added.

Generosity was her hallmark. When Elizabeth’s garden was selected for Provincetown’s annual garden tour, she not only set up a lemonade stand but also served hors d’oeuvres and champagne. “The visitors stayed for hours,” daughter Jeanne said.

In 1991, Elizabeth’s son James, 17, was in a serious accident. She provided the care and stabilizing energy to see him through. “There is no way to measure such love,” her children wrote. “The most important thing we learned from our mom is unbiased compassion. We all miss her so much.”

Elizabeth is survived by her sisters, Jeanne Emerson of North Berwick, Maine and Cynthia Scholtens of Reno, Nev.; her brother, Robert Post of Boynton Beach Fla.; her children, James Clinton Stevenson of Provincetown, Robert Clifford Stevenson of Orleans, and Jeanne Elizabeth Welsh of Boston; her stepdaughters, Mandie Welsh and Nicole Evans of Provincetown; and her grandchildren, Anna and Lily Stevenson, Michaela and Madison Rossetti, Kendall, Julia, and Zach Evans, and Myles, Mason, and Max Santos.

She was predeceased by her sister Mary Post and by her husband, Charles Welsh.

Memorial plans have not yet been announced.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts, 30 Lyman St., Suite 10, Westborough 01581.