Rheta Adella (Armbruster) Morgan, 95, of Huntington Common Drive and Indian Point, Georgetown, died Wednesday, December 8, 2010, in Kennebunk.
She was born in West Haven, Connecticut, on April 22, 1915, the daughter of Herman C. M. and Adella K. (Senecal) Armbruster. Her family lived in Greenwich, Connecticut and she was a graduate of Greenwich High School. Rheta graduated from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, class of 1937, with a bachelor of fine arts degree.
She met her husband, Russell L. Morgan at the Second Congregational Church in Greenwich, Connecticut where they were members of the church choir. They married on August 17, 1940, in Greenwich.
Following their marriage, Rheta and Russell lived in Rowayton, Old Greenwich, and Riverside, Connecticut. She was a substitute teacher at Riverside Elementary School and was a deaconess and choir member at the First Congregational Church in Old Greenwich. She was an enthusiastic member of the Fairfield County Welcome Wagon for many years.
Rheta and Russell moved from Riverside, Connecticut to Augusta, Maine in 1956 where Rheta taught art to grades K-8 in the Augusta school system from 1963 to 1976. Rheta was a deaconess and active in the church school at the South Parish Congregational Church in Augusta, a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, and the Kennebec Valley Art Association (KVAA), now the Harlow Gallery in Hallowell.
Rheta had a life-long love of the ocean and in 1966 the family bought a cottage on Indian Point in Georgetown. She became a volunteer at the Richards Library, the Georgetown Working League, and taught art at the Georgetown Central School. She was a juried watercolor painter who exhibited at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland and galleries all over Maine. She was also a proficient quilter, knitter, and an avid bridge player. She took great pride in knitting baby hats for newborns at MidCoast Medical Center and scarves for patients at Southern Maine Medical Center.
As the oldest citizen of Georgetown, Rheta was the current holder of the Georgetown Boston Post Cane Award.
She loved her family and friends and had an up-beat, spirited personality.
She is predeceased by her husband, Russell, who died in 1982.
She is survived by a son, Peter B. Morgan and his wife Marsha of Windham; two daughters, Nancy J. Keith and her husband James of Concord, Massachusetts, and Vicky Morgan-Fickett and her husband Robert of Wells; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to the Georgetown Working League, Scholarship Fund, P. O. Box 262, Georgetown, ME 04548.
A memorial service will be announced at a future date.
Arrangements are by Conroy-Tully Crawford Funeral Home, 172 State St., Portland. Online condolences may be expressed at www.ctcrawford.com.
She was born in West Haven, Connecticut, on April 22, 1915, the daughter of Herman C. M. and Adella K. (Senecal) Armbruster. Her family lived in Greenwich, Connecticut and she was a graduate of Greenwich High School. Rheta graduated from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, class of 1937, with a bachelor of fine arts degree.
She met her husband, Russell L. Morgan at the Second Congregational Church in Greenwich, Connecticut where they were members of the church choir. They married on August 17, 1940, in Greenwich.
Following their marriage, Rheta and Russell lived in Rowayton, Old Greenwich, and Riverside, Connecticut. She was a substitute teacher at Riverside Elementary School and was a deaconess and choir member at the First Congregational Church in Old Greenwich. She was an enthusiastic member of the Fairfield County Welcome Wagon for many years.
Rheta and Russell moved from Riverside, Connecticut to Augusta, Maine in 1956 where Rheta taught art to grades K-8 in the Augusta school system from 1963 to 1976. Rheta was a deaconess and active in the church school at the South Parish Congregational Church in Augusta, a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, and the Kennebec Valley Art Association (KVAA), now the Harlow Gallery in Hallowell.
Rheta had a life-long love of the ocean and in 1966 the family bought a cottage on Indian Point in Georgetown. She became a volunteer at the Richards Library, the Georgetown Working League, and taught art at the Georgetown Central School. She was a juried watercolor painter who exhibited at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland and galleries all over Maine. She was also a proficient quilter, knitter, and an avid bridge player. She took great pride in knitting baby hats for newborns at MidCoast Medical Center and scarves for patients at Southern Maine Medical Center.
As the oldest citizen of Georgetown, Rheta was the current holder of the Georgetown Boston Post Cane Award.
She loved her family and friends and had an up-beat, spirited personality.
She is predeceased by her husband, Russell, who died in 1982.
She is survived by a son, Peter B. Morgan and his wife Marsha of Windham; two daughters, Nancy J. Keith and her husband James of Concord, Massachusetts, and Vicky Morgan-Fickett and her husband Robert of Wells; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to the Georgetown Working League, Scholarship Fund, P. O. Box 262, Georgetown, ME 04548.
A memorial service will be announced at a future date.
Arrangements are by Conroy-Tully Crawford Funeral Home, 172 State St., Portland. Online condolences may be expressed at www.ctcrawford.com.
Rheta Adella (Armbruster) Morgan, 95, of Huntington Common Drive and Indian Point, Georgetown, died Wednesday, December 8, 2010, in Kennebunk.
She was born in West Haven, Connecticut, on April 22, 1915, the daughter of Herman C. M. and Adella K. (Senecal) Armbruster. Her family lived in Greenwich, Connecticut and she was a graduate of Greenwich High School. Rheta graduated from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, class of 1937, with a bachelor of fine arts degree.
She met her husband, Russell L. Morgan at the Second Congregational Church in Greenwich, Connecticut where they were members of the church choir. They married on August 17, 1940, in Greenwich.
Following their marriage, Rheta and Russell lived in Rowayton, Old Greenwich, and Riverside, Connecticut. She was a substitute teacher at Riverside Elementary School and was a deaconess and choir member at the First Congregational Church in Old Greenwich. She was an enthusiastic member of the Fairfield County Welcome Wagon for many years.
Rheta and Russell moved from Riverside, Connecticut to Augusta, Maine in 1956 where Rheta taught art to grades K-8 in the Augusta school system from 1963 to 1976. Rheta was a deaconess and active in the church school at the South Parish Congregational Church in Augusta, a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, and the Kennebec Valley Art Association (KVAA), now the Harlow Gallery in Hallowell.
Rheta had a life-long love of the ocean and in 1966 the family bought a cottage on Indian Point in Georgetown. She became a volunteer at the Richards Library, the Georgetown Working League, and taught art at the Georgetown Central School. She was a juried watercolor painter who exhibited at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland and galleries all over Maine. She was also a proficient quilter, knitter, and an avid bridge player. She took great pride in knitting baby hats for newborns at MidCoast Medical Center and scarves for patients at Southern Maine Medical Center.
As the oldest citizen of Georgetown, Rheta was the current holder of the Georgetown Boston Post Cane Award.
She loved her family and friends and had an up-beat, spirited personality.
She is predeceased by her husband, Russell, who died in 1982.
She is survived by a son, Peter B. Morgan and his wife Marsha of Windham; two daughters, Nancy J. Keith and her husband James of Concord, Massachusetts, and Vicky Morgan-Fickett and her husband Robert of Wells; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to the Georgetown Working League, Scholarship Fund, P. O. Box 262, Georgetown, ME 04548.
A memorial service will be announced at a future date.
Arrangements are by Conroy-Tully Crawford Funeral Home, 172 State St., Portland. Online condolences may be expressed at www.ctcrawford.com.
She was born in West Haven, Connecticut, on April 22, 1915, the daughter of Herman C. M. and Adella K. (Senecal) Armbruster. Her family lived in Greenwich, Connecticut and she was a graduate of Greenwich High School. Rheta graduated from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, class of 1937, with a bachelor of fine arts degree.
She met her husband, Russell L. Morgan at the Second Congregational Church in Greenwich, Connecticut where they were members of the church choir. They married on August 17, 1940, in Greenwich.
Following their marriage, Rheta and Russell lived in Rowayton, Old Greenwich, and Riverside, Connecticut. She was a substitute teacher at Riverside Elementary School and was a deaconess and choir member at the First Congregational Church in Old Greenwich. She was an enthusiastic member of the Fairfield County Welcome Wagon for many years.
Rheta and Russell moved from Riverside, Connecticut to Augusta, Maine in 1956 where Rheta taught art to grades K-8 in the Augusta school system from 1963 to 1976. Rheta was a deaconess and active in the church school at the South Parish Congregational Church in Augusta, a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, and the Kennebec Valley Art Association (KVAA), now the Harlow Gallery in Hallowell.
Rheta had a life-long love of the ocean and in 1966 the family bought a cottage on Indian Point in Georgetown. She became a volunteer at the Richards Library, the Georgetown Working League, and taught art at the Georgetown Central School. She was a juried watercolor painter who exhibited at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland and galleries all over Maine. She was also a proficient quilter, knitter, and an avid bridge player. She took great pride in knitting baby hats for newborns at MidCoast Medical Center and scarves for patients at Southern Maine Medical Center.
As the oldest citizen of Georgetown, Rheta was the current holder of the Georgetown Boston Post Cane Award.
She loved her family and friends and had an up-beat, spirited personality.
She is predeceased by her husband, Russell, who died in 1982.
She is survived by a son, Peter B. Morgan and his wife Marsha of Windham; two daughters, Nancy J. Keith and her husband James of Concord, Massachusetts, and Vicky Morgan-Fickett and her husband Robert of Wells; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to the Georgetown Working League, Scholarship Fund, P. O. Box 262, Georgetown, ME 04548.
A memorial service will be announced at a future date.
Arrangements are by Conroy-Tully Crawford Funeral Home, 172 State St., Portland. Online condolences may be expressed at www.ctcrawford.com.
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