She was born in Bath on Feb. 28, 1923, a daughter of Norman W. and Maud (Wilson) Howard. She attended Bath schools and graduated from Morse High School in the Class of 1941. She then attended Pierce Secretarial School in Boston, Mass., and was employed at Bath Iron Works until her marriage to Marthon Doak Jr. of Belfast in September 1945. They made their home and raised their five children in Day’s Ferry, in Woolwich. She worked for the Children’s Home in Bath and after her husband died in 1972, was also employed at Sherred Village and the Coastal Journal.
Betty enjoyed caring for her family, gardening, sewing, knitting, braiding rugs, taking slide pictures and going to Five Islands. Her greatest joy was doing a quarterly newsletter about local events and sending it to her classmates of ’41, family and friends. No draftsman supper at the community club was complete without her cinnamon rolls.
She is survived by her children,
Andrea Conner and her husband, Jack of Freeport; Emily Ann Hartung and her husband, Dallas of Farmington; and Gregory Doak and his wife, Susan, Randolph Doak and his wife, Sabrina, and Warren Doak, all of Woolwich. She also leaves 10 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren who all love her and will miss her very much.
Betty was predeceased by her parents and siblings, Glenda Goodridge of Gig Harbor, Wash., and Gilbert Howard of Westbrook.
A Christian Science service will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 2, at Daigle Funeral Home, 819 High St., Bath. Later that same day a “Celebration of Her Life” will be held at 1 p.m. at Day’s Ferry Congregational Church on the Old Stage Road in Woolwich. Memorial contributions in her memory may be sent to the Morse High School Alumni Association, c/o Hazel Meserve, 4 Regatta Lane, Bath, ME 04530; or the Woolwich Historical Society, P.O. Box 98, Woolwich, ME 04579. Condolences may be made online at www.Daiglefuneralhome.com.
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