FALMOUTH – Constance Kirkbridge Brown Page, 85, died Saturday, Nov. 8, 2003. The daughter of Samuel Hulme and Elizabeth Hoopes Brown, she was born June 17, 1918, in Westtown, Pa. She was a student at Westtown Friends School from 1923-1935. In 1939, she graduated from Wellesley College, where she was a classics major. In 1940, she married Rosario A. Page, a young doctor from Fort Kent. Together they lived in Caribou from 1945-1974, where they raised their four children, Robert Hulme Page, Elizabeth Page Carroll of Bars Mills, D. Christopher Page of Lynnfield, Mass., and Anne Malin Page Jones of Yarmouth. Constance was a birthright Quaker whose ancestors came to this country in 1682 aboard the “Welcome” with William Penn. Her father, Master Sam Brown, taught history at the Westtown Friends School and was an elder of the Westtown Friends meeting. Constance was a dedicated community volunteer who received the “Most Valuable Citizen Award” in 1955 from the Caribou Chamber of Commerce. She served on the Governor’s advisory council on education from 1960-1964. While living in the Sugarloaf area from 1974-1984, she worked as director of the regional arts program of Carrabassett Valley. Once widowed, Constance lived in Falmouth from 1984 to the present and volunteered as a teacher of English as a second language and as a hospice worker. Constance is survived by her children and their spouses, Robert C. Carroll and Michael A. Jones; and nine grandchildren, Christopher, Abigail and Elizabeth Carroll, Sarah and Robert Page, Joshua, Constance Page and Ned Jones, Emily Page Murray; and by one great-grandchild. She was predeceased by her husband in 1983; and her son, Robert, in 1987. Friends who wish to visit the family may do so at 6-8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9, at the Hay & Peabody Funeral Home, 749 Congress St., Portland. Services will be held 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 10, at the State Street Church, Portland. Burial will take place 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, at the Evergreen Cemetery in Caribou. Friends are invited to attend. In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Constance may be made to Hospice of Maine, 519 Ocean Ave., Portland, ME 04103.
CONSTANCE KIRKBRIDGE BROWN PAGE
