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Note N4028 Index
Evaline was born in the section of Rumford known as Littlefield. She died at Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway on Mother's Day, 8 May 1994.
During the early years of their married life, Dwight and Evaline lived in Norway, where he worked in one of the shoe factories there, and in Rumford Center (with Evaline's parents). Shortly after Rodney was born in 1935, they moved to Mechanic Falls, where Dwight sold insurance for the Metropolitan Insurance Company. In 1940, the family moved to East Hartford, Connecticut, and remained there during most of World War II, until 1944. Dwight was a foreman at Pratt and Whitney, a company that produced airplane engines for the war effort. The family lived in a section of East Hartford known as Mayberry Village.
It was back to Maine in 1944. The family lived at 14 Beal Street in Norway for six years before Dwight and Evaline purchased the former Spiller Funeral Home, at 246 Main Street, in 1950. From 1944 to 1946, Dwight worked for Rupert Aldrich as an airplane mechanic at the Norway Airport. In 1946, he had back surgery, which meant no work (and no income) for several months. Evaline began taking in laundry and selling Avon products to support the family during this time.
After recovering from the back surgery, Dwight took a job as foreman at B.E. Cole Shoe Company. At the same time, Dwight and Evaline had the unused rooms of the family home converted into apartments. There already were two rental apartments in the complex. To this number were added four small apartments in the former barn, and three one-room apartments in the front part of the main house. Dwight continued to work at the shoe factory, while Evaline managed the apartments and raised the family. After a few years, Dwight took a position as salesman at the New England Furniture Company's store in Norway. Before long, he became Store Manager, the position he held until poor health due to cancer forced him to retire in 1965.
Evaline continued to work outside the home, managing the Norway branch office of Cummings Cleaners, a dry-cleaning and laundry concern based in Auburn.
After Dwight died in 1967, Evaline stayed on at that job, most of the time accompanied by her mother, who could not be left alone. There was a room at the rear of the store where Roseanna could rest. In 1970, Evaline decided to sell the house and the apartments, leave her outside job, move her mother to a Nursing Home in Auburn, and move herself 25 miles away to the town of Gray.
She had developed a great interest in racehorses and the sport of harness racing. Living in Gray, much closer to the racetracks and stables, made it possible for her to devote most of her time to her enjoyment of the sport. For a few years, she was the owner of some racehorses. However, one summer, a horse bit her in the chest and infected her with equine encephalitis. Her health gradually declined after that. She spent several months in a nursing home (the same nursing home at which Deanna worked) before her final move to a boarding home on Beal Street in Norway, just a few houses away and across the street from 14 Beal Street, where the family had lived in the late 1940's.
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Note N4029 Index
Stan and Hazel were married by Rev. Mervin M. Deems, then Pastor of Second Congregational Church in Norway and, later, Dean and Professor at Bangor Theological Seminary.
Stan was the Enumerator of the 1930 Census of Paris, Maine.
Stan was known nationwide as the "Gem Man" of West Paris. As a youngster, he had a keen interest in rocks and gems. Over the years, that interest blossomed into a lifelong business. He owned several mines and quarries in the Oxford Hills area, from which he and his workers (including son Frank and daughter Jane) extracted thousands of dollars worth of precious stones and gems. Stan and Hazel operated the nationally-known Perham Maine Mineral Store at Trap Corner, on busy Route 26 in West Paris. It was, and continues under Jane's leadership to be, one of the most famous gem and mineral centers in the eastern United States.
Life for Stan and Hazel was not all work, however. They spent as much time as they could at their "hobby" of square dancing. After Stan's death in 1973, Hazel continued to operate the store in partnership with Jane, a gem expert in her own right. The Perham home in West Paris was a duplex, with Jane and family on one side and Hazel and her little, lovable dogs on the other. After a few years, as Hazel's health deteriorated, it became necessary for her to move into the Ledgewood Nursing Home, just down the road from the store.
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Note N4030 Index
Hattie was a teacher. Russell was a farmer, and also worked in a woolen mill.
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Note N4031 Index
Nettie was a teacher. John was a farmer in Otisfield.
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Note N4033 Index
John took his own life on 14 June 1941.