BRUNSWICK – Fae Schmidt, 77, of Pownal, passed away July 8, due to complications from surgery earlier this spring.

She was born Fae Gertrude Wilson in Portland on Nov. 27, 1928, the daughter of Archie and Winifred Wilson of Gray.

She attended Pennell Institute, Class of 1947, and graduated from the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary School of Nursing in 1951, where she worked as an operating room nurse for many years.

On March of 21, 1953, she married Walter Schmidt of Freeport. They spent a decade in California, where she was head nurse of the maternity and emergency departments at Seaside Hospital in Cresent City. In the early 1960s they moved back to Pownal and built a farm on the Poland Range Road where they raised their four children. She dedicated most of her career to Pineland Hospital and retired from nursing after several years at the Freeport Nursing Home.

After retiring she enjoyed the deer and songbirds around home, family times, and traveling with Walter. Two of her favorite memories were being in Arizona for the birth of their twin grandsons and catching a 52-lb king salmon on the Keni River in Alaska. They also enjoyed trips to their daughters horse farm in Hebron and to their family camp on Ragged Lake in T2 R13 WELS.

She was a regular member of the Freeport Elders Club and longtime member of the Amvets Auxiliary in Durham. Together with Walter and her grandsons she watched the Red Sox, the Patriots and NASCAR racing.

Missing her life on earth will be her husband of 53 years, Walter; and her four children, Heidi Burgess and her husband, Mel and daughter, Kirstin of Lewiston, Vicki and companion, Frank Walker, of Hebron, William and his wife, Stacey and their twin sons, Ben and Bryce, and Russell and his companion, Jessica Theberge, all of Pownal; her twin sisters, Alma Claus and Keen Paulson of Altamonte Springs, Fla. and Joan Gray of Easton; and several neices and nephews.

The family would also like to extend heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the Pownal and Freeport rescue departments, as well as the nurses and staff of the Intensive Care and Emergency units at Parkview Adventist Hospital and the Bodwell Rehabilitation Center in Brunswick.