STONINGTON – Wallace B. “Pete” Knowlton, 93, died Friday, Jan. 27, 2006, at a Deer Isle healthcare facility. He was born Aug. 11, 1912, in Stonington, the son of John and Stella (Carter) Knowlton. Pete worked in the granite quarries of Stonington and also was a lobster fisherman for many years. He married Althea “Teedie” Larrabee June 12, 1936 and together they made their home in Stonington, living on the Airport Road for 50 years. Pete and Teedie donated the land where the Island Medical Center now stands. He was a disabled veteran of World War II, where he served in the U.S. Navy. He was a life member of the Disabled American Veterans, John F. Kennedy Chapter No. 6. Pete loved gardening and wildlife and was known to hand feed wild deer. He is survived by two sisters, Viola Barter of Deer Isle and Muriel Snow of Greenfield, Mass. and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his wife in 1998, his parents; and brothers, Everett, Tilden and Merrill; and sisters, Ethna Knowlton, Louisa Conley, Margaret Eaton, Clara Jones, Evelyn Jones and Edith Smith. Friends are invited to visit with the family 10-11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, at the Bragdon-Kelley-Campbell Funeral Home, Main Street, Stonington, with funeral services commencing at 11 a.m. Interment, with military honors, will be at the Knowlton Cemetery, Tea Hill, Stonington. Gifts in memory of Pete may be sent to Hancock County Hospice and Homecare, 6 Water St., Blue Hill, ME 04614.
WALLACE B. ‘PETE’ KNOWLTON
