OAKLAND – Marylou P. Dougherty, 54, of Oakland died May 19, 2005, after a one year struggle with cancer. She was born June 8, 1950, in Norfolk, Va., the daughter of Robert and Beatrice Carnes of Augusta, granddaughter of Edmund and Clara Zerrien of Lamoine, and the wife of the late John Dougherty of Philadelphia. Marylou lived in Lamoine and Augusta until moving to Maryland in 1964. In 1970, she married John Dougherty Jr. and they lived in Pasadena, Md. until his death in 1996. Marylou attended the University of Maine at Augusta, where she obtained an associates degree in Liberal Studies Magna Cum Laude in 2001 and her baccalaureate degree in social science with a minor in English in May of 2004. She was the president of the Honors Program, student editor for the Maine Scholar, a New England civic scholar for Campus Compact and chair of the UMA English Society. She recently received many awards including the UMA Distinguished Student Award and the Distinguished Social Science Student Award and was included in the Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities for the second year in a row. Marylou was active in the Student Government Association and student representative to the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. She will be remembered by many students and faculty for her work with students at the Writing Resource Area, which she designed and implemented on the UMA campus as well as being instrumental in designing an Alternative Break based around local hunger issues in the spring of 2004. She was a very active and vital part of the UMA community. Marylou was also an active member of the community and served as a facilitator for Maine Communities Face Alcohol. She was a campaign coordinator for YES on 6 in 2000. She worked on the bicentennial committee for Augusta and had been a volunteer for the Hospice and grieving children’s program. She was also an active member of the Parish of the Holy Spirit in Waterville and served as a lector, a eucharistic minister, and a member of the faith formation team. Marylou’s most recent venture was working on a public policy issue based on domestic violence and the effectiveness of batterer programs in Maine, funded by a scholarship from the Public Policy Institute. Her hobbies were knitting, cross stitching and playing golf. Marylou is survived by her two sons, John Dougherty III who resides in Davenport, Iowa and Timothy Dougherty who resides in Sidney; her mother-in-law, Helen Dougherty who resides in Philadelphia, Pa. Friends are invited to visit and celebrate Marylou’s life with her sons 6-9 p.m. Monday, May 23, at Veilleux Funeral Home, 8 Elm St., Waterville. A Mass of Christian Burial will celebrated 11 a.m. Tuesday May 24, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Pleasant Street, Waterville, with Fr. Phil Tracy as celebrant. Burial will follow at the Saint Francis Catholic Cemetery, Grove Street, Waterville. Arrangements are under the care of Veilleux Funeral Home.
MARYLOU P. DOUGHERTY
