EAST MILLINOCKET – Florence Hamm Libby, 95, died March 30, 2005. She was born Oct. 9, 1909, in East Millinocket, a daughter of Winfield Robert and Rose Weymouth Hamm. She graduated from Schenck High School. She was a registered nurse, and she trained at The Children’s Hospital in Portland, Mercy Hospital and Yale Medical School. She worked at Pineland in the early 1930’s and again in the 1950’s and 1960’s. She also worked at Poland Spring Job Corps, where she was a teacher in the nurse’s aide program. She married Wallace Arthur Libby, from Lewiston. She moved with her husband, a civil engineer, for a few years and settled in Portland on Woodlawn Avenue. They moved to Gray in the early 1950’s where she ran a boarding house for the turnpike builders, a roadside diner, and a ceramic shop where she taught ceramic lessons. She traveled the world with her husband, until he passed away in 1985. Then she moved to San Diego, Calif. She returned to Gray in 1994. She attended her first New Orleans Mardi Gras in 1998 at the age of 89. For the past year she has lived in Topsham, and attended day programs at The Garden and Respite care, where she made many friends and had wonderful times. She as predeceased by her husband; two sisters, Beatrice and Pearl; two brothers, Alton and Robert. She has survived by two daughters, Dawn Brent and her husband, Richard, of Greensburg, Kan., and Elizabeth Kirstead and her husband, Ralph, of Eastport; three granddaughters, Beth Carr, and her husband, Jim, of Topsham, Sarah Gallant of Gorham, and Liana Morrill of Bridge City, Texas; four grandsons, Nick Morrill and his wife, Kelly, of Arkansas, Dan Morrill and his wife, Sue, of New Hampshire, Peter Gallant and his wife, Jennifer, of Portland, and Frank Gallant Jr. of Greensburg Kansas; 12 great- grandchildren; and several great-great-grandchildren; longtime family friends, George and Sandra Sailor of Gray, and their daughters, Kim, Jody, and Lynn; several nieces and nephews. A celebration of Florence Libby’s life will be held 1-4 p.m. Sunday April 3, at the Sailor’s home in Gray. A graveside service will be held at a later date.
FLORENCE HAMM LIBBY
