Connors, Avis S., 94, July 30, 2013. Interment was held in Littleton Cemetery. Arrangements by Dunn Funeral Home, Houlton.
HOULTON – Avis Shaw Connors, 94, went home to be with her Lord July 30, 2013, after a long illness at a local hospital. She was born on December 28, 1918, in Robinson, ME, the daughter of Bert and Mary (Sherwood) Tapley.
Avis was a member of the First Baptist Church in Houlton where she served as a Sunday School teacher for many years. Her lifelong dream of a college degree was realized after seven years of study when she graduated in May 2005 from the University of Maine at Presque Isle. She was also a published author of two children’s books. Avis was a wife, mother of two, grandmother of ten and great-grandmother of twenty-two. She will be missed by her family: son, Buddy Shaw and his wife, Lorraine, of Littleton; grandsons, Timothy Shaw and family of Amherst, NH, and Robert Shaw and his wife and family of Muskogee, OK, and granddaughter, Kimberly York and her husband, Brian, of Brewer. Avis also leaves her Houlton Regional Progressive Care family, where she resided for several years. She was predeceased by two husbands, Ted Shaw in 1995, and Llewellyn Connors in 2003; her eldest son, Terry Shaw in 2011; and two brothers, Vincent and Clarence Tapley.
Funeral services were held at the Dunn Funeral Home on Saturday, August 3 with Rev. Rus Hartley officiating. Interment was in the Littleton Cemetery. Friends may make gifts in Avis’s memory to the Houlton First Baptist Church, c/o Dunn Funeral Home, 11 Park Street, Houlton, Maine 04730. Online guest book and condolences at: dunnfuneral.com.
