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Edwin was a farmer in Albany, Maine.

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Note N11559 Index

George was a sawyer in a lumber mill.

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Nelson had been a board sawyer at Grafton Lumber Company in New Hampshire.

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Thelma graduated from Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine, in 1929. Over the years, she taught school, worked as a waitress, did child care, worked in the early hot lunch program in Norway, and retired from the J.J. Newberry's department store in Norway in 1972.
Thelma is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, North Waterford, Maine.

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Note N11576 Index

Thelma died as a result of an automobile accident. She had been a factory worker in Norway and Harrison, Maine, and Laconia, New Hampshire.

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A very interesting article about Isabelle appears in the September 6, 2007, edition of the "Advertiser-Democrat" newspaper. It describes her as a "94-yearold Waterford woman, who has danced at just about every hall, grange and barn in a 50-mile radius of her home, still employs her fine handwork in dozens of afghans she makes for her family."
Here are a few quotes from that article:
"Like most children born when we were, we mostly worked on the farm and didn't have much time to play."
"I have danced ever since I don't know when....The waltz is my favorite if I am dancing with someone good."
"I liked arithmetic. I liked to do it on the board, not on paper, I guess maybe so everybody could see it. I hate to tell you this, but I never went to high school. I was all done with school when I was 14."
"When I was 16 or 17, I started working for the Lakeside Inn. It was between Norway Lake and the inlet by Crockett Ridge Road. I mostly made beds and stuff like that."
"After I got married, I started working for Newberry's then it wasa bought out by McCrory's [but was still called Newberry's]. I worked there for 40 years On my lunch breaks, I would go over to Longley's and work in the basement, or over to Barjo's to bus tables or to Verenice's to wait on trade. It was somewhere in the vicinity of when I retired that Newberry's closed for good."
"I had all my children up at the farm. My daughter Jeannine was the first born. She was killed in a tractor trailer accident. She was a mail carrier on a route when a tractor trailer jack-knifed and hit her. She left five children. Then I had the twins Robert, who lives in East Hartford, Connecticut and Rodney, who lives in East Waterford. Robert lost his arm just above the wrist when a piece of dynamite exploded in his hand. He didn't know what it was and he pricked it. And when he did, it blew his hand off. But you know, we never told him he was crippled. We let him learn how to do everything. Then there was my son Edwin, but he passed away, too. I have 11 grandchildren and great grandchildren by the bushel "
"I was given the Boston Post cane on June 7, 2004, for being the oldest citizen in Waterford. Also, in 2002, the Waterford World's Fair was dedicated to me."

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Herman was a lumberman, sawmill operator and carpenter.

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Herbert was a carpenter. One of his passions was snowmobiling. An active member of the Windy Valley Snowmobile Club in western Maine, he built a warming hut along one of the snowmobile trails in the woods near Newry. After his death, the club members erected a plaque and dedicated the hut to Herbert.
Another of his passions was helping disabled skiers, especially young children, get up the slopes at Sunday River Ski Resort in Bethel, Maine. Beginning in the late 1980's, Herbert volunteered his services to the Maine Handicapped Skiing Program, which is based in Newry, just a few miles from the resort. He pulled the skiers (who were on specially designed sleds) up the slopes with his snowmobile. Many couldn't ride the chairlifts or hang on to the T-bars. He was always there on Fridays, the days young children came to ski. He did this for 17 years, retiring in 2003 because of failing health.
Herbert is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, West Bethel, Maine.