Copied from an e-mail from Diane Jellis:
It is with great sadness that we report that after living with ovarian cancer for seven years, Marilyn LaFleur Carr succumbed to it at 4:30 AM on Saturday morning, February 21. A Memorial Service for Marilyn will be held at 11:00 AM, Tuesday morning, February 24, at the Union Congregational Church, 1368 US Rt 1, Hancock, ME, while the family from afar is still in town. There will also be a service at Bustins this summer. Our hearts go out from our Bustins family to Marilyn’s family.
Arrangements are being made by the Jordan-Fernald Funeral Homes, 113 Franklin Street, Ellsworth, ME 04605. Tel: 207-667-2521.
Diane Jellis (On behalf of the BIVC)
The following obit appeared on the Jordan-Fernald Web Site:
Marilyn LaFleur Carr, 76, died peacefully at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital on February 21, 2009 after living with ovarian cancer since 2002. She was born in Washington DC on November 19, 1932, the daughter of AB and Lola (Kerr) LaFleur.
A resident of Hancock, and a member of the Union Congregational Church there, Marilyn spent summers on Bustins Island in Casco Bay for over sixty years. For the last twenty years she spent portions of each winter on the Caribbean island of Nevis.
Marilyn could not remember a time in her life when she hadn’t wanted to be an artist. She began drawing as a youngster and painted until a few weeks before her death. Her artist’s eye, her attention to design and detail, and her artful use of color characterized her works. In her later years she focused on small natural objects painted large, especially sea shells, rocks, and flowers. She exhibited in a number of galleries both in Maine and on the island of Nevis that she deeply loved, and her work forms part of many private and corporate collections.
She studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York, the Philadelphia College of Art, and graduated from the University of Maine, Machias. Professionally she employed her skills as a fashion illustrator, an interior designer, and an art teacher to both children and adults.
Marilyn taught in the Cherryfield and Columbia Falls elementary schools in the mid-1970s. She then became the first full-time art teacher in the public school systems of Washington County when she was hired as K-12 art teacher in the Machias school district. Later she taught art for thirteen years at Massabesic Junior High School in Waterboro.
She is survived by her husband, F. Benjamin Carr of Hancock; by sons Brett Larson and wife Mary Kay Peterson of Honeybrook PA and The Reverend Kim Larson and wife Claudia of Rutledge PA; also by children F. Benjamin Carr III and wife Pamela of Frederic MI, J. Fletcher Carr and wife Adria of Bridgton, and Rebecca Carr and husband Graeme Henderson of Pasadena CA. She is survived by seventeen grandchildren as well as sister Madelyn (Jan), wife of The Reverend Doctor Paul Eckel of Bradenton FL, brother Martyn LaFleur and wife Patricia of Cocoa FL, and brother-in-law Calvin Carr and wife Virginia of Boothbay.
Memorial services will be held at the Union Congregational Church, Hancock, at a time of the family’s choosing and on Bustins Island next summer. Remembrances may be sent to the Brewer Cottage Fund of Bustins Island, c/o Mr. O.J. Garfield, 114 Royall Point Rd, Yarmouth 04096; to the Beth C. Wright Cancer Resource Center, 3 High Street, Ellsworth 04605; or to the Frenchman Bay Conservancy, PO Box 150, Hancock 04640.
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