SACO — It is with heavy heart that my mother Dorothy E. Bowden passed from this life to her everlasting life on July 18, 2018.

Dorothy was the daughter of Warren and Bertha Fitts. She was born in Stetson in 1919 and raised there with her siblings Pearl and Barbara.

Dot married Louville Bowden in 1940 and they had one child, Rita Bowden, now Rita Lagueux Winn. Louville and Dot lived in many towns before they settled in Lyman where they lived next door to their daughter and family.

Many wonderful times were spent at their camp in Gray where they swam, fished and boated. Dot loved children and had a way about her that would warm children’s hearts. She babysat many children in her lifetime.

Dot and Louville went to the Goodwins Mills United Methodist Church where they were faithful parishioners and contributed in many ways and many things to the church, in fact, Dot handmade cross stitch crosses that were sent to the troops with a poem in them and she was even once invited to Bangor to send the troops off. Louville made the cross on the altar at church that is still used today. He was a wonderful craftsman.

I want everyone to know that like most families we had our problems but I always loved my parents and as we all got older we settled all of our differences.

Dot was predeceased by her parents, her husband Louville, her sisters Pearl and Barbara, son-in-law Dick Lagueux and her good fried Pauline Meserve.

She is survived by her daughter Rita Lagueux Winn and her husband Ellsworth, grandchildren Rick Lagueux and wife Donna, Patty Gove and her husband John, Jim Lagueux and Judy Lagueux, 10 great-grandchildren; and nine great-great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Aug. 1, 2018 at Goodwins Mills United Methodist Church, 55 Lyman St., Lyman.

In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Goodwins Mills United Methodist Church in her memory.