Dorothy ‘Dot’ C. Parsons Martin

1923 – 2009

NORWAY – Dorothy ‘Dot’ C. Parsons Martin, 85, of South Paris, passed away Saturday, Sept. 19, at Stephens Memorial Hospital after a long battle with Pulmonary Fibrosis.

She was born Nov. 3, 1923, on Mable Street in Portland, to Clarence and Edith Getchell Parsons. She was educated in South Paris schools and lived on the same block of Pearl Street and Western Avenue in South Paris for approximately 75 years of her life, 53 in the same house. She married her sweetheart, Rodney D. Martin, in West Paris on Feb. 16, 1942.

Besides being a great wife and mother she was a caregiver for many years to many people, retiring when she was 80 yrs old. She took great pleasure in all aspects of food from growing it to preparing and serving it and she was considered a great cook by all that sampled her cooking. She is a member of the Deering Memorial United Methodist Church in South Paris.

She is survived by her five children, Dennis, Edward and Christopher, all of South Paris, Dotty Poirier of West Paris and Gail Gallant of Lakeland, Fla.; her grandchildren, Rodney Martin Welch of Woodstock, Phoebe Butlin and Megan Martin of Rhode Island, Michelle Poirier of South Paris, Michael Poirier of Harrison, Kimberly and Monica Martin of South Paris; and six great-grandchildren. She is also survived by two sisters, Clarice Denney of Fryeburg and Jacqueline Edwards of South Paris; and a brother, Richard Parsons of Oxford; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her parents; her oldest son, Rodney D. Martin Jr., in 1963; her husband in 1985; and a brother, Peter P. Parsons, in 2008.