FARMINGTON – Kathleen L. Dolbier, 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 GED 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” Dolbier, 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 hand-made blanket. Mrs. Dolbier will be remembered by her family and friends as a good Christian woman, who made a thank offering every time good things happened to her throughout her life. She loved being a homemaker and her greatest joy was having her family around her.

She is survived by five daughters, Lynette and her husband, Donald Handrahan Sr., of Freeman Twp., Regina and her husband, Meldon Gilmore, of Freeman Twp., Blanche and her husband, Niilo Sillanpaa Sr. of New Vineyard, Ethel Gardner of Augusta, and Greta and her husband, Joseph Essency Sr. of Farmington; a son, R. Randall Wahl Jr. and his wife, Jennie, of Mexico; stepsons, John Dolbier 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 20 years, who died April 30, 1993, she was predeceased 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 in August 2003.