YARMOUTH - Phyllis W. Williamson, 85, died December 13, 2001 at a Yarmouth nursing facility. She was born in Jackson, June 25, 1916, a daughter of Floyd and Laila Walton Winship.
Phyllis graduated from Unity High School in 1933. She received her BS from Farmington State Teachers College, a M.Ed. and C.A.G.S. from the University of Maine at Orono. Her teaching career began in 1936 at a one room rural school at McCrillis Corner in Wilton where she taught grades K through 8 for several years. Later she taught in Temple and then for more than two decades at the Mallett School, Farmington retiring in 1974. During part of the 1950's and 1960's she was an Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Maine at Farmington. Mrs. Williamson was the first campus schoolteacher to receive this appointment. She was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the American Legion Auxiliary continuously since World War II, several genealogical and educational associations, the Calico Quilters and the Pine Tree Quilters. Her hobbies included gardening, canning, genealogical research, sewing, quilting, crocheting, knitting and reading.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. John (Pauline) Buck of Yarmouth; a son, Charles H. Whitney of Fairfield; five stepdaughters, Mrs. Harry (Shirley) Carroll of Virginia, Mrs. George (Edith) Brown of Baltimore, Md., Mrs. Cecil (Constance) Wade of Richmond, Va., Mrs. Albert (Jean) Quandt of Valley Falls, N.Y., Mrs. Norman (Faye) Roy of Bryant Pond; five granddaughters; four great-grandchildren; several stepgrandchildren, stepgreat and stepgreat-great-grandchildren; one brother, Robert Winship of Unity
She was predeceased by her husbands, Reginald E. Whitney in 1959, Reginald H. Williamson in 1991; a stepson, Reginald E. Williamson in 1986 and two brothers, Harold Winship in 1988 and Hershell Winship in 2001.
Visiting hours will be at 10 am Monday Dec. 17 at the Portland Ward Chapel, 29 Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth, funeral services to follow at 11 a.m. Interment in Fairview Cemetery, Farmington.
(Published in the Portland Press Herald)
Phyllis graduated from Unity High School in 1933. She received her BS from Farmington State Teachers College, a M.Ed. and C.A.G.S. from the University of Maine at Orono. Her teaching career began in 1936 at a one room rural school at McCrillis Corner in Wilton where she taught grades K through 8 for several years. Later she taught in Temple and then for more than two decades at the Mallett School, Farmington retiring in 1974. During part of the 1950's and 1960's she was an Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Maine at Farmington. Mrs. Williamson was the first campus schoolteacher to receive this appointment. She was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the American Legion Auxiliary continuously since World War II, several genealogical and educational associations, the Calico Quilters and the Pine Tree Quilters. Her hobbies included gardening, canning, genealogical research, sewing, quilting, crocheting, knitting and reading.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. John (Pauline) Buck of Yarmouth; a son, Charles H. Whitney of Fairfield; five stepdaughters, Mrs. Harry (Shirley) Carroll of Virginia, Mrs. George (Edith) Brown of Baltimore, Md., Mrs. Cecil (Constance) Wade of Richmond, Va., Mrs. Albert (Jean) Quandt of Valley Falls, N.Y., Mrs. Norman (Faye) Roy of Bryant Pond; five granddaughters; four great-grandchildren; several stepgrandchildren, stepgreat and stepgreat-great-grandchildren; one brother, Robert Winship of Unity
She was predeceased by her husbands, Reginald E. Whitney in 1959, Reginald H. Williamson in 1991; a stepson, Reginald E. Williamson in 1986 and two brothers, Harold Winship in 1988 and Hershell Winship in 2001.
Visiting hours will be at 10 am Monday Dec. 17 at the Portland Ward Chapel, 29 Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth, funeral services to follow at 11 a.m. Interment in Fairview Cemetery, Farmington.
(Published in the Portland Press Herald)
YARMOUTH - Phyllis W. Williamson, 85, died December 13, 2001 at a Yarmouth nursing facility. She was born in Jackson, June 25, 1916, a daughter of Floyd and Laila Walton Winship.
Phyllis graduated from Unity High School in 1933. She received her BS from Farmington State Teachers College, a M.Ed. and C.A.G.S. from the University of Maine at Orono. Her teaching career began in 1936 at a one room rural school at McCrillis Corner in Wilton where she taught grades K through 8 for several years. Later she taught in Temple and then for more than two decades at the Mallett School, Farmington retiring in 1974. During part of the 1950's and 1960's she was an Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Maine at Farmington. Mrs. Williamson was the first campus schoolteacher to receive this appointment. She was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the American Legion Auxiliary continuously since World War II, several genealogical and educational associations, the Calico Quilters and the Pine Tree Quilters. Her hobbies included gardening, canning, genealogical research, sewing, quilting, crocheting, knitting and reading.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. John (Pauline) Buck of Yarmouth; a son, Charles H. Whitney of Fairfield; five stepdaughters, Mrs. Harry (Shirley) Carroll of Virginia, Mrs. George (Edith) Brown of Baltimore, Md., Mrs. Cecil (Constance) Wade of Richmond, Va., Mrs. Albert (Jean) Quandt of Valley Falls, N.Y., Mrs. Norman (Faye) Roy of Bryant Pond; five granddaughters; four great-grandchildren; several stepgrandchildren, stepgreat and stepgreat-great-grandchildren; one brother, Robert Winship of Unity
She was predeceased by her husbands, Reginald E. Whitney in 1959, Reginald H. Williamson in 1991; a stepson, Reginald E. Williamson in 1986 and two brothers, Harold Winship in 1988 and Hershell Winship in 2001.
Visiting hours will be at 10 am Monday Dec. 17 at the Portland Ward Chapel, 29 Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth, funeral services to follow at 11 a.m. Interment in Fairview Cemetery, Farmington.
(Published in the Portland Press Herald)
Phyllis graduated from Unity High School in 1933. She received her BS from Farmington State Teachers College, a M.Ed. and C.A.G.S. from the University of Maine at Orono. Her teaching career began in 1936 at a one room rural school at McCrillis Corner in Wilton where she taught grades K through 8 for several years. Later she taught in Temple and then for more than two decades at the Mallett School, Farmington retiring in 1974. During part of the 1950's and 1960's she was an Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Maine at Farmington. Mrs. Williamson was the first campus schoolteacher to receive this appointment. She was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the American Legion Auxiliary continuously since World War II, several genealogical and educational associations, the Calico Quilters and the Pine Tree Quilters. Her hobbies included gardening, canning, genealogical research, sewing, quilting, crocheting, knitting and reading.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. John (Pauline) Buck of Yarmouth; a son, Charles H. Whitney of Fairfield; five stepdaughters, Mrs. Harry (Shirley) Carroll of Virginia, Mrs. George (Edith) Brown of Baltimore, Md., Mrs. Cecil (Constance) Wade of Richmond, Va., Mrs. Albert (Jean) Quandt of Valley Falls, N.Y., Mrs. Norman (Faye) Roy of Bryant Pond; five granddaughters; four great-grandchildren; several stepgrandchildren, stepgreat and stepgreat-great-grandchildren; one brother, Robert Winship of Unity
She was predeceased by her husbands, Reginald E. Whitney in 1959, Reginald H. Williamson in 1991; a stepson, Reginald E. Williamson in 1986 and two brothers, Harold Winship in 1988 and Hershell Winship in 2001.
Visiting hours will be at 10 am Monday Dec. 17 at the Portland Ward Chapel, 29 Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth, funeral services to follow at 11 a.m. Interment in Fairview Cemetery, Farmington.
(Published in the Portland Press Herald)
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