Jim’s teaching career took him, Elaine, and their children, Karen and Michael, to various colleges and universities across the country. He loved visiting national and state parks and learning more about each new place they lived, and was a lifelong Boston Red Sox fan.
After decades of teaching, Jim and Elaine moved to New Gloucester, where he designed and built a log home for their retirement. He found a new passion in family history, and wrote a semi-fictional book about the voyages Captain Abram Healy made with his wife and children in the nineteenth century, entitled A Sea-Farer’s Journal. During the last year of his life, Jim resided at St. Mary’s D’Youville Pavilion, where he and Elaine made many new friends through her kind ways and his mischievous smiles and teasing.
Jim was predeceased by his parents; and by two brothers, Duane and Richard.
He is survived by his devoted wife, Elaine Sawyer; and sisters, Patricia and Dorothy Sawyer, all of New Gloucester; his son, Michael Sawyer and his wife, Lisa of Seattle, Wash., daughter, Karen Marsalek and her husband, John of Minneapolis, Minn.; and four grandsons, Jacob and Nathan Sawyer, and Lukas and Thomas Marsalek.
Jim’s teaching career took him, Elaine, and their children, Karen and Michael, to various colleges and universities across the country. He loved visiting national and state parks and learning more about each new place they lived, and was a lifelong Boston Red Sox fan.
After decades of teaching, Jim and Elaine moved to New Gloucester, where he designed and built a log home for their retirement. He found a new passion in family history, and wrote a semi-fictional book about the voyages Captain Abram Healy made with his wife and children in the nineteenth century, entitled A Sea-Farer’s Journal. During the last year of his life, Jim resided at St. Mary’s D’Youville Pavilion, where he and Elaine made many new friends through her kind ways and his mischievous smiles and teasing.
Jim was predeceased by his parents; and by two brothers, Duane and Richard.
He is survived by his devoted wife, Elaine Sawyer; and sisters, Patricia and Dorothy Sawyer, all of New Gloucester; his son, Michael Sawyer and his wife, Lisa of Seattle, Wash., daughter, Karen Marsalek and her husband, John of Minneapolis, Minn.; and four grandsons, Jacob and Nathan Sawyer, and Lukas and Thomas Marsalek.
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