Louisa May Noyes

1915 – 2009

WEST PARIS – Louisa May Noyes, 94, of Bryant Pond, died Oct. 30, in West Paris.

She was born in Greenwood on Aug. 22, 1915, the daughter of Dennis and Lillian (Keene) Swan and had been a homemaker all of her life. Louisa enjoyed scrapbooking, reading, flowers and crossword puzzles.

She was a member of the Greenwood Historical Society and president of theWoodstock Historical Society, a member of the Woodstock Homemakers Association for 50 years serving as secretary and then president of 20 years. She had been head librarian and assistant librarian at the Whitman Memorial Library for over 20 years.

She and her husband Earle, whom she married on June 25, 1938, enjoyed their camp in Grafton, for many years.

She is survived by two daughters, Denise Swan of Greenwood and Elena Noyes of Bryant Pond; as well as three grandchildren, Brent Swan and his wife, Barbara, of Chiefland, Fla., Melanie Ellsworth and her husband, Warren, of Greenwood and Ross Swan and his wife, Becky, of Greenwood; and four great-grandchildren, Naomi and Sadie Ellsworth and Corey and Ashley Swan.

She was predeceased by her husband of 65 years,
Earle Noyes, who died in 2003; two brothers, Edmund Swan and Dennis Swan; and one sister, Lelia McAllister.