WARREN – Margaret Jean Storer, 79, died Feb. 16, 2004, at her home in Warren, after a brief illness. She was born Jan. 1, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Herbert H. and Margaret Duffy Calderwood. When Jean was seven, the family moved to Rockport, where Jean attended local schools through the seventh grade. In 1937, Jean and her mother moved to Rockland, where Jean attended school as a member of the Rockland High School, Class of 1942. In high school she took the Latin scientific course and was very active in school affairs including four years of playing both in the band and orchestra, singing in the glee club and participating in intramural sports. After high school, Jean entered nurses’ training at Mass General Hospital. In 1945, she married John Storer, her high school sweetheart. Their love affair lasted for more than 63 years. They lived in the Chicago area while John finished his medical training. Two sons, Michael and Stephen, were born during this period. From there they moved to Los Alamos, a newly built city in the mountains of New Mexico at a 7500-foot elevation. It was there that son, Christopher and daughter, Katharine, were born. The family lived in Los Alamos, N.M., for eight years with two years out for duty in the U. S. Army Medical Corps in Ft. Knox, Ky. From Los Alamos, N.M., they moved to Bar Harbor, where John was on the staff of the Jackson Laboratory. During this time Jean was very active in town affairs. She served on the Warrant Committee and the board of directors of the YWCA. She was also active in church affairs. They next moved to Gaithersburg, Md., for two years while John worked for the Atomic Energy Commission. After that they moved to Oak Ridge and Rockwood, Tenn. With their children grown, Jean took particular delight in traveling with John to various scientific meetings around the country and in Europe. She also enjoyed being a member of a group of ladies who had quilting sessions every week through the winter. When John retired in 1986, he and Jean spent summers in their cottage on South Pond in Warren, and winters in their cottage on Watts Bar Lake in Rockwood, Tenn. Jean will be particularly remembered by the Rockland High School, Class of 1942, for organizing annual luncheon reunions and for organizing major reunions in 1997 (55th) and 2002 (60th). By the year 2001, they decided they should live full time in Maine to be nearer their children and contracted for a new house in Warren on the old Storer Homestead owned by son, Michael and his wife Madeleine. Son, Christopher, did most of the design work and the subcontracting. The landscaping and the gardens were completed in 2003. The couple were greatly enjoying their new home where Jean became ill in December of 2003. Jean is survived by her husband, John; son, Michael and his wife, Madeleine, of Warren, their son John B. II; Stephen of Bar Harbor and his companion, Paula Marie, Stephen’s son, Shea and his wife, Elisha, their daughter Haley Alexis; son, Christopher of Warren, and his fianc‚e, Marjorie Beam, of Bar Harbor; daughter, Katharine of Bangor. She is also survived by two cousins, Constance Lane of Philadelphia and Rockport, and Mary Forti of Marshfield, Mass. A funeral mass will be conducted on Thursday, Feb. 19, at St. Bernard’s Catholic Church, 150 Broadway, Rockland. The Rev. Mark Reinhart will officiate. Interment will be in the spring at Sea View Cemetery, Rockport. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to St. Bernard’s Catholic Church, 150 Broadway, or the Rockland Salvation Army, P.O. Box 586, Rockland, ME 04841. Arrangements are under the care of Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home, 110 Limerock St., Rockland.
MARGARET JEAN STORER
