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.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette (MA)
May 28, 2003LUNENBURG -- Flora (Eldridge) Haines, 94, formerly of Lunenburg, died Sunday, May 25, in Westridge Healthcare Center, Marlboro, after a long illness.
Her husband, Harry Haines, died in 1968. She leaves a niece, Alberta Spearman of North Carolina; and a grandniece, Darlene Webb of Roslindale. She was born in Burlington, Vt., daughter of Alberto and Augusta (Bearse) Eldridge, and lived in Lunenburg for many years.
Mrs. Haines was a secretary for the The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, for several years.
Newspaper
SEARSPORT, Sept. 14 - The death of Mrs. Nellie F. Carr, wife of Chas. W. Carr of Prospect, formerly of Searsport, came as a great shock to her many friends and relatives.
She leaves to mourn, besides her husband, one son Charles H. Carr; two daughters, Mrs. Alice Babbidge of Isleboro and Miss Lucia Carr of Searsport; also four brothers, Selden Jacobs of Waltham, Mass., ...
Find-a-Grave
[Mary] Agnes Littlefield COOSE, widow of James Colby COOSE, of Stockton Springs, passed away on Saturday May 10th at 1:05PM, with her daughter by her side.
She was born in Haverhill,MA. on Aug. 23, 1908. Her parents were [Mary] Malvina MELANSON LITTLEFIELD, of Church Point, Nova Scotia, and Isaac L. LITTLEFIELD, of Thorndike,ME.
The family moved to Maine when Agnes was 2 months old and to Stockton Springs when she was 2 years. At 15 she worked at the Telephone Co. in Stockton Springs earning 10 cents an hour, and was a substitute operator for 24 years. At 16, she became the organist for the Universalist Church there, and joined the Church in 1937. She was organist for 25 years, then continued to substitute until she moved to Searsport in 1988. She joined the Rebekah Lodge in Sept.1926 and received her 70 year pin in 1996. She also belonged to the Eastern Star Lodge, the Utopian Club where she was the first Secretary; the Farm Bureau, the Pomona Grange, the Seavetta Club, and the Stockton Springs Historical Society where she was a Life Member. She was a Clerk in the Stockton Springs Post Office for 17 years. She loved her family, music, singing in the Belfast Choral Society for 10 years, her needlework, reading, and doing crossword puzzles.
She was predeceased by her parents, a sister Lottie LITTLEFIELD HANSON, and brothers Edmund J, Charles Irving, and infant Pearl Jason LITTLEFIELD