FREEPORT – Inez Estelle Bousquet of Lisbon, born Sept. 27, 1913, passed away on May 23, at Freeport Nursing Home with her family and friends by her side both physically and spiritually. She lived a long and full life.

For the last 13 years, she lived independently in Lisbon at Woodside Apartments. There she had many good friends who all band together to help each other out. She will miss Virginia, Vera, Jackie, Madeline and Ovid, Reggie and Lou among others. She would want everyone to know that if not for the day to day care that she received from Albert’s wife Bonnie she would have never been able to live as independently as she did right up until the end.

She had many long-term friends. Over the years the lines blurred between family and friend. To name just a few Roland Bartlett (Uncle Roland), Eldena Thorne, Marjorie Steele (Nanna) and Lou, Ida Roy her daughter, Marie, her husband, Bud and their daughter, Dorene were always called aunt or uncle and cousin. She had a kind heart and would take you in if you were ever in need as one of her own. Other more recent friends in the last 30 or so years would include her neighbors from Durham Bill (aka the Crab Meat Man) and wife, Beth.

She lost her father Walter A. Crocker, mother Ethel R. and her infant brother Walter A. all to flu epidemic of 1918. Her grandmother Annie G. Wilson of Topsham raised her. She went to schools in Topsham and Brunswick graduating from Brunswick in 1931. She went on to work at Tondreu’s Market as a bookkeeper, followed by many years at Arbauch Shoe in Topsham.

She has two surviving cousins, Georgia Small and her family of Freeport and Raymond Condon of Phippsburg. She often talked of them and their families.

She was a devout Catholic. Here is one memory, which illustrates this perfectly. When her husband Arthur and their two sons would get together the conversation would turn to sports or cards and like most families things would get animated and Arthur would sometime slip and use the Lord’s name inappropriately. She would waste no time scolding him from out in the kitchen with a stern “Arthur quit your praying!”

More recently she really enjoyed her friends at Woodside and her grandchildren. One last thought I have is of a recent visit (last year or so). We would talk and cover a whole range of topics. We got to talking about school for my kids, and I was telling her of a little scrap Jake had gotten into, she laughed and said well you know the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree.

She looked a little smug as if she had just given me a little dose reality. Well after I left, I began to ponder her words. I thought if she was right the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. I could trace my Jake (apple) all the way back to her, making her the tree! When I visited her the next time and I told her how I saw it, she just smiled a proud smile and said if you say so! Well today I’m saddened to say we’ve all lost our tree and will miss her dearly! Grammie we all love you and will miss you everyday but we will never forget you!

She is survived by Albert’s wife, Bonnie of Sabattus, and their three sons and families, grandson, David W. Bousquet and great-grandson, Scott of California: grandson, Scott A. Bousquet, wife, Sandra and great-grandkids, Gabrielle R. and Jacob A. of Freeport; grandson, Michael J. Bousquet, wife, Ann and great-grandsons, Brandon W. and Robert (Robbie) M. of Wichita, Kan.; her son, David E., wife, Joyce, of Lake Placid, Fla. and David’s son, David A. Bousquet, new wife, Trina and great-granddaughter, Stephanie (previous marriage), husband Curtis and great-great-grandson, Chance of Livermore Falls. She thought often and fondly of Phyllis Cunningham, her son David’s first wife.

She was predeceased by her husband of 49 years, Arthur J.B. Bousquet; and her two sons, Albert R. and David E. Bousquet, all lost to cancer.