Per 1910 census Mabel was adopted.
Portland Press Herald (ME)
March 6, 1995Dorothy Mabel True, 83, of Bayview Street died Saturday at a Portland hospital.
She was born in Freeport, a daughter of Perley T. and Mabel Gamman Fickett. She graduated from Yarmouth High School in 1929 and graduated from Gorham State Teachers College in 1931.
She was an elementary schoolteacher and taught first grade in Augusta schools for 20 years and in the Yarmouth schools for seven.
She married Carl D. True in 1939.
She was a member of the Yarmouth Farm and Garden Association, an honorary member of the Fortnightly Club of Yarmouth, a member of the Village Improvement Society of Yarmouth and the Yarmouth Historical Society. She did volunteer work with a local nursing home and with the Yarmouth schools and was a member of the Maine Association of Retired Teachers.
She was an active member of the First Parish Congregational Church in Yarmouth.
Her husband died in 1989 after 50 years of marriage. A son, Frederick Gamman True, died in 1982.
She is survived by a sister, Ella Pearl Fickett of Yarmouth and St. Petersburgh, Fla.; and a grandson.
Portland Press Herald (ME)
January 16, 1996Ella P. Fickett, 80, of Bayview Street died Sunday at a Portland hospital.
She was born in Freeport, a daughter of Perley T. and Mabel (Gamman) Fickett, attended schools in both Freeport and Yarmouth, and graduated in 1932 from North Yarmouth Academy. She graduated from the Maine School of Commerce in Portland in 1934.
Mrs. Fickett was the bookkeeper for the Cook, Everett and Pennell, wholesale drug company in Portland for many years. She later worked as a bookkeeper with Rings Gas and Appliance Co. in Yarmouth.
She was a 50-year member of the Casco Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star.
In retirement, she was a volunteer cashier at the Regional Hospital in Brunswick. She spent her winters in St. Petersburg, Fla., where she was a member of the Northeast Christian Church.
A sister, Dorothy Fickett True, predeceased her in 1995.
She is survived by a special friend and caregiver, Mrs. Mary Ellen Bradford of Yarmouth.