STANDISH – Carlene Harvey Estes passed away peacefully on Aug. 23, at her home in Standish.

Born in Augusta, on April 13, 1939, she was the daughter of Theodore Lincoln and Carolyn Crosby Harvey.

In 1942 the family moved to Auburn, where she attended Auburn schools and graduated from Edward Little High School in 1957.

On Aug. 23, 1958, she married Robert Abbott Estes Sr. Her death took place on their 48th anniversary. She attended Mainente School of Music, Auburn, after graduating from high school, and in her early years of marriage attended Portland State College, Portland, Ore., University of Maine Extension at Madawaska, the University of Kansas School of Music, Lawrence, Kan., and Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio. In 1975 she earned her bachelor’s degree, with a major in music from the University of Maine at Portland-Gorham (now University of Southern Maine).

She loved music and played several instruments, including bassoon, clarinet, flute and piano, and participated in the high school band and played in several orchestras. She also taught piano, flute, bassoon and clarinet to a number of students. She and her husband have had a marketing business since 1975.

While a young teenager, she was active in Auburn’s recreation programs and in the summer of 1953 she was queen of the city’s water carnival and when a senior in high school, her school voted her queen of the winter carnival. When she was a young mother with three children, she was active in her children’s school activities, supported her husband’s work as professor of mathematics at USM, and participated in the Gorham Jaycee Wives.

She was a long-time member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Portland and the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. She loved gardening, and her hobbies included crafts of many types, especially sewing. She and her husband lived in Gorham for 22 years and in Standish for 18 years and summered in South Harpswell since their wedding.

She is survived by her husband, Dr. Robert A. Estes Sr., Professor Emeritus, USM; one daughter, Carolyn Ruth Estes Bumatay and husband, Randolph of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.; two sons, Robert Abbott Estes Jr., and wife, Shari of Sidney and Richard Harvey Estes and wife, Margueritta of Erie, Pa.; a sister, Alma H. Newell of Gorham; a brother, Gordon T. Harvey of North Windham; in-laws, Ruth E. and Harold C. Weeks Jr. of South Harpswell and Paul L. and Gisela B. Estes of Plymouth, N.H.; three nieces, Donna N. Hodge of Portland, Heide R. Estes of New York City and Caryn Harvey of Stamford, Conn.; two nephews, Harold C. Weeks III of South Harpswell and Christopher P. Estes of Chester, Vt.; and 11 grandchildren, Tony and Katie Bumatay of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., Nicholas, Joel, Kenan, Linnea and Catherine Estes of Sidney and Erin, Nathan, Amy and David Estes of Erie, Pa.

Carlene had a very gracious nature and was loved and admired by all who knew her.