KINGFIELD – Kathleen L. Doblier, 88, of Kingfield, died Tuesday, July 19, at her daughter’s home in Farmington.

She was born Feb. 16, 1917, in Kingfield, a daughter of the late Orrin and Ola (Landers) Lisherness. She attended school in Kingfield and earned her G.E.D. after her children were grown.

During World War II, she worked in a South Portland shipyard as a welder.

On Dec. 14, 1973, she married Philip “Chet” Doblier, in Wilton. Their home was a house for all the neighborhood kids, who knew her as “Aunt K” or “Grammie K.”

She enjoyed playing cribbage and crocheting, and crafted each grandchild and great-grandchild a handmade blanket.

She will be remembered by her family and friends as a good Christian woman, who made a thanks offering every time good things happened to her throughout her life. She loved being a homemaker whose greatest joy was having her family around her.

She is survived by five daughters, Lynette and her husband, Donald Handrahan Sr., of Freeman Township, Regina and her husband, Meldon Gillmore, of Freeman Township, Blanche and her husband, Niilo Sillanpaa Sr., of New Vineyard, Ethel Gardner of Augusta, and Greta and her husband, Joseph Essency Sr., of Farmington; son, R. Randall Wahl Jr., and his wife, Jennie, of Mexico; stepsons, John Doblier and his wife, Carol, of Missouri, and David Bachelder and his wife, Gerry, of Massachusetts; daughter-in-law, Judy Wahl-Bate and her husband, Don, of Farmington; 22 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; 12 great-great-grandchildren; and a special niece, Carolyn Allen and her husband, David, of Farmington.

In addition to her husband of 19 years who died April 30, 1993, she was preceded in death by her grandmother with whom she lived most of her childhood, Blanche Howe who died in May 1979; a son, Michel Wahl, who died Sept. 12, 1992; two grandsons, Roy Randall Wahl III, who died Sept. 12, 1992, and Niilo Sillanpaa Jr., who died April 1, 1998; and a brother, Omar H. Lisherness, who died August 2003.

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