1926 – 2004

WATERVILLE – Orville C. “Gus” Page Sr., 77, of Winslow, passed away on Friday, March 26, at a Waterville Hospital.

Born in Vassalboro, Oct. 11, 1926, he was the son of the late Gustavus and Lena (Leavitt) Page.

A Vassalboro native, he was educated in East Vassalboro schools and was a 1945 graduate of Erskine Academy in South China.

In October 1944, he entered the U.S. Navy and served during the aftermath of World War II. He was honorably discharged on May 4, 1946. Again he enlisted on April 30, 1952, and served during the Korean Conflict. He was honorably discharged on April 3, 1953.

On Sept. 9, 1962, he married the former Mary Tibbetts and together have shared 42 years. Mr. Page worked three and a half years at A.F. Hussey and Company Funeral Home in East Vassalboro and graduated in 1949 from New England Institute of Anatomy in Boston, Mass.

He started work for Redington Funeral Home in Clinton in October of 1953, managing that facility and also assisting at the Waterville funeral home. In 1974, he became partner and its vice president and treasurer, until retiring in 1994. He also was employed as a part-time security guard at the Mid Maine Medical Center in Waterville for one and a half years.

Mr. Page was a longtime member of East Vassalboro Grange and Negumkeag-Vassalboro Masonic Lodge, also being a past master of the latter organization. While in Clinton, he was active in civic affairs, serving 12 years on its local school board. He was a member of the Brown Memorial Methodist Church as well as a 47-year member and past king lion of that Kennebec County community’s Lions Club. Mr. Page served from 1989-1990 as zone chairman and from 1990-1991 served as regional chairman for the Loins Club.

Mr. Page was also affiliated with a number of other Masonic groups including Dunlop Chapter, Royal Arch Masons in China, Mount Lebanon Council in Oakland, St. Omer Commandery in Waterville, Kora Temple Shrine in Lewiston and the Kennebec Valley Shrine in Augusta. In 1980, he became a Kora Temple Shrine ambassador.

Survivors include his wife of 42 years, Mary Page of Winslow; three children, Orville C. “Doc” Page Jr. and his wife, Deenie of Oxford, Edward Page and his wife, Christina of Baldwinville, Mass., and Carlene Page-Redmann and her husband, Marty of Yarmouth; a brother, Paul Page and his wife, Charlotte of China; three grandsons, Stephan and Christopher Page and Zachary Redmann; and four great-grandchildren.

He was predeceased by a brother, Ted Page; and a granddaughter, Jeskah Dawn Page.