1917-2003

BANGOR – Evelyn Anita Bartlett, 86, died Saturday, Dec. 27, at the Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, after a short, courageous battle with lung cancer, and is now finally at rest.

Evelyn was born in Rumford on Jan. 17, 1917, the daughter of Zoel and Dorilla Brousseau Lemay. She grew up in Carthage and attended Carthage and Dixfield schools. She was employed at Berst-Forster, later known as The Diamond Match Company, and then was employed by the Oxford Paper Company in Rumford.

She married Earle E. Bartlett, the love of her life, on Feb. 5, 1938. Her hobbies were full-time homemaker, flower gardener, avid fisherwoman, and spending many summers in the Rangeley Lakes Region catching salmon, the envy of many fishermen. After Earle’s retirement she took up golf with him and enjoyed it so much that they chose to winter in Florida for a number of years. After Earle died in 1992, she wintered in Florida for three more years. She enjoyed crocheting, crafts, oil painting, photography and e-mailing.

She is survived by: her daughter Nancy and husband John Dunlay; her son Robert and wife Tina; grandchildren, Bonnie and fiancé Elliot Knox, Michael Dunlay, Robert and Mandy Bartlett; nine great grandchildren; a sister-in-law, Evelyn and Sulo Ellis of L’Ance, Michigan; and hundreds of nieces and nephews.

Her nine siblings, five sisters and four brothers all pre-deceased her.