SACO – Helen E. Blake, 96, passed away July 23, 2012, at Seal Rock Nursing Home, Saco. She was born Nov. 4, 1915, the eldest daughter of Harry Macomber Wooster and Sara Poole Wooster of Old Town.
She graduated from the University of Maine, Orono, where she met her husband, William Blake, a forestry major from Greenfield, Mass. She was a stay at home mother until 1958, when she became the librarian at Southwick (Mass.) Public Library. She retired from there in January 1981. She enjoyed living at Grist Mill Road, Franklin, most of her life. If one word was chosen to describe her, it would have been “energetic.” She was hard to keep up with. She loved to cook and to serve her family. “Tag sale” was her art that she practiced with her sisters.
She was predeceased by her husband, William Blake, in 1968; her brothers, Ted Wooster, in 1992, and Dick Wooster, in 1978; and her sisters, Dora Smith, in 2004, and Ruth Drew, in 1984. She is survived by her brother, Harry Wooster; and sister, Midi Roberts, who is at Atlantic Heights, Saco. She is also survived by two sons, William Blake Jr. of North Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Dick Blake of Chapel Hill, N.C. She has four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, all in Maine.
There will be an interment ceremony in September at Southwick Cemetery and a family memorial service in Franklin on the July Fourth weekend next year. Arrangements are under the care of Direct Cremation of Maine, 182 Waldo Ave., Belfast. Online condolences may be offered to the family at
www.directcremationofmaine.com.