PITTSTON - On the morning of Nov. 12, 2010, Mildred MacComb passed on as she had wanted to -- she died peacefully in her sleep, secure in the beloved family home where she was raised.
Born May 19, 1928, in Lowell, Mass., Millie, a daughter of Willis and Edna MacComb of Pittston, moved with her family to her grandfather's farm in Pittston, Maine, when she was a young girl during the Depression. She moved from a city where people were struggling to eat to a farm where as she was fond of saying, "with a little hard work a person could really have all the food they wanted, and of a very good mix and quality at that." Millie was a childhood cancer survivor, treated at the Lahey Clinic in Massachusetts, with what at the time was cutting-edge experimental treatment.
Mildred MacComb was a graduate from Bridge Academy in Dresden and the University of Maine in Orono. She was employed for several years as a laboratory technician at the former Gardiner General Hospital.
Mildred is survived by her brother, Richard MacComb, and his wife, Belva, and a niece, Janice Overholt, and two great-nephews, Jon and Ian Overholt, all of Ohio; a nephew, Roy MacGee III, of Pittston; and a niece, Cathy Gero, and her husband, Alfred.
She was predeceased by a nephew, James MacComb; and a cousin, Mary MacGee of Pittston.
Graveside services will be held at the family lot in Alna Cemetery, Route 218, Alna.
(Kennebec Journal 11/17/2010)
Born May 19, 1928, in Lowell, Mass., Millie, a daughter of Willis and Edna MacComb of Pittston, moved with her family to her grandfather's farm in Pittston, Maine, when she was a young girl during the Depression. She moved from a city where people were struggling to eat to a farm where as she was fond of saying, "with a little hard work a person could really have all the food they wanted, and of a very good mix and quality at that." Millie was a childhood cancer survivor, treated at the Lahey Clinic in Massachusetts, with what at the time was cutting-edge experimental treatment.
Mildred MacComb was a graduate from Bridge Academy in Dresden and the University of Maine in Orono. She was employed for several years as a laboratory technician at the former Gardiner General Hospital.
Mildred is survived by her brother, Richard MacComb, and his wife, Belva, and a niece, Janice Overholt, and two great-nephews, Jon and Ian Overholt, all of Ohio; a nephew, Roy MacGee III, of Pittston; and a niece, Cathy Gero, and her husband, Alfred.
She was predeceased by a nephew, James MacComb; and a cousin, Mary MacGee of Pittston.
Graveside services will be held at the family lot in Alna Cemetery, Route 218, Alna.
(Kennebec Journal 11/17/2010)
PITTSTON - On the morning of Nov. 12, 2010, Mildred MacComb passed on as she had wanted to -- she died peacefully in her sleep, secure in the beloved family home where she was raised.
Born May 19, 1928, in Lowell, Mass., Millie, a daughter of Willis and Edna MacComb of Pittston, moved with her family to her grandfather's farm in Pittston, Maine, when she was a young girl during the Depression. She moved from a city where people were struggling to eat to a farm where as she was fond of saying, "with a little hard work a person could really have all the food they wanted, and of a very good mix and quality at that." Millie was a childhood cancer survivor, treated at the Lahey Clinic in Massachusetts, with what at the time was cutting-edge experimental treatment.
Mildred MacComb was a graduate from Bridge Academy in Dresden and the University of Maine in Orono. She was employed for several years as a laboratory technician at the former Gardiner General Hospital.
Mildred is survived by her brother, Richard MacComb, and his wife, Belva, and a niece, Janice Overholt, and two great-nephews, Jon and Ian Overholt, all of Ohio; a nephew, Roy MacGee III, of Pittston; and a niece, Cathy Gero, and her husband, Alfred.
She was predeceased by a nephew, James MacComb; and a cousin, Mary MacGee of Pittston.
Graveside services will be held at the family lot in Alna Cemetery, Route 218, Alna.
(Kennebec Journal 11/17/2010)
Born May 19, 1928, in Lowell, Mass., Millie, a daughter of Willis and Edna MacComb of Pittston, moved with her family to her grandfather's farm in Pittston, Maine, when she was a young girl during the Depression. She moved from a city where people were struggling to eat to a farm where as she was fond of saying, "with a little hard work a person could really have all the food they wanted, and of a very good mix and quality at that." Millie was a childhood cancer survivor, treated at the Lahey Clinic in Massachusetts, with what at the time was cutting-edge experimental treatment.
Mildred MacComb was a graduate from Bridge Academy in Dresden and the University of Maine in Orono. She was employed for several years as a laboratory technician at the former Gardiner General Hospital.
Mildred is survived by her brother, Richard MacComb, and his wife, Belva, and a niece, Janice Overholt, and two great-nephews, Jon and Ian Overholt, all of Ohio; a nephew, Roy MacGee III, of Pittston; and a niece, Cathy Gero, and her husband, Alfred.
She was predeceased by a nephew, James MacComb; and a cousin, Mary MacGee of Pittston.
Graveside services will be held at the family lot in Alna Cemetery, Route 218, Alna.
(Kennebec Journal 11/17/2010)
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