Hughes, Grace Ellen, 75, Lewiston, in Lewiston, April 5, 2009. Memorial services will be held 11 a.m., April 18, from the chapel of Mockler Funeral Home, Caribou. Friends are invited to visit with family from 10 a.m. until time of services.
LEWISTON – Grace E. Hughes, 75, died Sunday, April 5, at a Lewiston hospital.
She was born in Fort Kent on Aug. 24, 1933, the youngest of seven children born to Preston and Elizabeth (Walker) Hughes of Allagash. She graduated from Caribou High School in 1951 and built a career as a medical transcriptionist at Cary Medical Center in Caribou and later for the state Workers Compensation Commission in Augusta.
She loved talking politics, reading, bird-watching and playing Scrabble, all of which she did well.
Grace was predeceased by a daughter, Geri (Page) Dingeldein, her parents, all of her siblings and a son-in-law, Lee Mockler.
She is survived by her children Karen (Page) Evans and her husband, Greg, and granddaughter Juliette of Carlsbad, Calif.; Liz (Page) Mockler of Bangor and grandsons Rod Chapman and his wife, Lori, and Robert Chapman of Augusta, and great-grandchildren Ethan Chapman and Olivia Chapman; Ava Page of Sidney and her husband, Richard Downe, and grandsons Benjamin Baird and Ryan Baird; and her two sons, Louis Page of Westbrook and Stuart Page of Otisfield.
She also is survived by grandson Anthony “Tony” Dingeldein and his wife, Diana, of San Jose, Calif., and great-granddaughter Kaia Dingeldein.
Memorial services will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, April 18, 2009, from the chapel of Mockler Funeral Home, 24 Reservoir Street, Caribou, Friends are invited to visit with the family from 10 a.m. until time of services. Those who wish to make a donation in her name may contribute to the American Heart Association or Clover Health Care at 440 Minot Ave., Auburn, Maine. For an online registry please to www.mocklerfuneralhome.com.
