PORTLAND – Lois Mabel Chute, 89, passed away peacefully on March 7, at Mercy Hospital. The daughter of William Southard and Florence Arnold Southard she was born in Dexter, on May 2, 1916.

She graduated from Norway High School in Norway in 1937, and went on to graduate from Maine General School of Nursing located in Portland in 1941.

After graduation she worked at Maine General Hospital in Portland, and then did private duty assignments around the greater Portland area. She was well-liked by all she cared for, as she was always positive and sensitive to the patients’ needs and family members. She continued to care for family members in need up until she was 80-years-old.

She was very fond of the friends and staff she met at the Atrium where she lived the last five years. She enjoyed more than 60 summers at her cottage in Norway, where she entertained many friends and family over the years.

She was married Jan. 1, 1942, in Old Orchard Beach to Robert E. Chute. He died in 1980.

Survivors include one brother, Ralph Smith of Brewer; sisters, Doris Skolfield of Bangor and Mary Jane Harkin of Fremont, Calif.; a sister in law, Marion Southard of Windsor, Vt.; children, David H. Chute and his wife, Marcia, of Portland, Robert E. Chute Jr and his wife, Judy, of Falmouth and Mary Ann Huff of Mulino, Ore.; grandchildren, Anne Marie Chute and her husband, Chad, of La Crosse, Wis., Diana Lynn Chute and her husband, Rich, of Dearborn, Mich., Peggy Jean Chausse and her husband, Matt, of Westbrook, Janet Leigh Chute of South Portland and Anna May Huff, Jesse Huff and Jeremy Huff, all of Mulino, Ore.; great-grandchildren, Hannah Elizabeth Dull and Cameron Everett of La Crosse, Wis.

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