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Name: Ray Chadbourne Dates: Birth date: August 05, 1915 Death date: June 23, 2010 Obituary: Harmony-Ray G. Chadbourne, Sr., 94, died peacefully on June 23, 2010, in Skowhegan.
He was born on August 5, 1915, in Harmony, the son of the late George and May (Gilman) Chadbourne. He graduated from Harmony High School with the Class of 1933. He married Freida Fowlie in 1938. They lived all their years in Harmony where they shared their love of family, friends, home and wonderful organic gardens until Freida’s death in 1991.
Ray worked on farms, in the woods, drove truck and was employed several years by Bailey’s Store. He drove snowplows and was Road Commissioner. He and his brother-in-law, Kenneth Watson, owned and operated Chadbourne and Watson Garage in Harmony from 1948-1981.
Ray enjoyed hunting and fishing. He received the Boston Cane Award for being the oldest resident of the Town of Harmony. He will be lovingly missed by his family.
He is survived by his daughter, Rhoda Ayotte; a son, Ray Chadbourne, Jr.; his grandsons, David Chadbourne and his wife, Marsha and Francis Brown and his wife, Heidi, all of Harmony; his granddaughter, Angela Bouthot of Winthrop; several great grandchildren and great great grandchildren; his siblings, Cecil Chadbourne, Emma Watson and Lenora Watson, all of Harmony, Norris and Clyde Chadbourne of Cambridge and Colleen Wilbur of Brunswick; numerous nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by his wife, Freida; his granddaughter, Tammy Brown; two brothers, George and Clayton Chadbourne; and two sisters, Effie Gourley and Doris Blanchard.
A funeral service will be held at 10:00am, Saturday, June 26, 2010, at the Harmony Baptist Church, High Street, in Harmony, with the Rev. Levi Pratt officiating. Interment will immediately follow at the Chadbourne Cemetery, Chadbourne Road, in Harmony.
Should friends desire, donations may be made to the Harmony Fire Department, PO Box 3, Harmony, Maine, 04942, in Ray’s memory.
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Care for the Chadbourne family has been provided by Shorey-Nichols Funeral Home, Pittsfield. |