On November 12, 2012, Mabel H. Blanchard, wife of the late Norman H. Blanchard, died peacefully surrounded by her family. She was born April 21, 1920 in Worcester, Massachusetts, daughter of John Allan and Pearl von Sotta Hagerstrom.

She attended schools in Massachusetts and Maine. Mabel graduated from Farmington, Maine high school in 1938. She married Norman Blanchard on November 30, 1939.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was predeceased by her sister Mildred Bird and her brother-in-law Bert Blanchard. Surviving her are four daughters: Olivia and her husband David Williamson of Woolwich; Pamela and her husband Terrence Williamson of Hampden; Meridel and her husband Richard Cosgrove of West Bath; and Susan and her husband Walter Kimball, Sr. of West Bath. Also, sister Alice and her husband Robert Parlin; brother John and his wife Louise Hagerstrom; and sister-in-law Beula and her husband Don Green , nine grandchildren — Michael Williamson, Jennifer Maconochie, David Margas, Stephan Margas, Dianne Strait, Amanda Kimball, Walter Kimball, III, Richard Cosgrove, Jr., Tamara Hegele, and sixteen great-grandchildren.

Mabel worked in the Probate Court in Franklin Country. She served as church treasurer and ran the Sunday school at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Winn, ME. She served on the Winn School Board and PTA; was a member of the Hospital Auxiliary at Penobscot Valley Hospital; and served as ballot clerk in Winn. She was a member of the Lee Literary Club. Most of all she loved spending time with her family and camping all over Canada, Alaska, and the lower United States. We will miss her.

There will be no services per Mabel’s request. If you care to make a donation, please consider the following charities: Bangor Red Cross, American Red Cross 73 Hammond St. #1 Bangor, ME 04401 or St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital INC, 501 St. Jude Place Memphis, TN 38105-1905.

Arrangements are under the care of Direct Cremation of Maine, 182 Waldo Ave., Belfast, ME 04915.