1923 – 2003

NORWAY – William H. Barlow, 79, formerly of Rumford Center, a resident of Market Square Health Carte, died Monday, April 28, at the Stephens Memorial Hospital.

Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, the son of Harry and Barbara E. Barlow, he was educated in schools in Calais, and Pelletier Cosmetology in Lewiston. He married H. Maxine Loper on Jan. 2, 1945. Maxine passed away on April 9. They met while he was in the Air Force.

He had a beauty shop in Wilton and moved to Rumford in 1947 to work in the Oxford Paper Mill. Both he and his wife loved to travel and spent most years after retirement wintering in Dunnellon, Fla. He enjoyed reading, fishing, hunting, snowmobiling and listening to Norm and Betty DeCoteau at the area nursing homes. He belonged to the Rumford American Legion.

Survivors include a brother, Evans Barlow and his wife Alice of Portland; two sisters, Gladys Charters of St. Stephen, NB, and Irene Sprague of Bangor; a son, Gerald Wayne Barlow and his wife Jacqueline of Manchester, NH; two daughters, Barbara Ann Canwell and her husband Leonard of Oxford and Cynthia Barlow of Auburn; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by a son, Thomas William Barlow; and two brothers, Clayton and George Barlow.

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