Caroline Barnes
1929 – 2010

PORTLAND — Caroline Barnes of Knox Ridge North, Knox, died Jan. 14, at Maine Medical Center. She was struck by a car on Jan. 6, while walking near her home.

She was born in Lewiston in 1929, the daughter of August Buschmann and Catharine Sears Buschmann. Her second mother, Elizabeth King Buschmann raised her as her own daughter, after the death of her mother.

She attended Bates College and later graduated from Clark University in 1962. She taught middle school English in Sutton and Shrewsbury, Mass., before relocating to Knox, where she taught at SAD 3. During her early teaching career, she earned two master’s degrees from Clark University.

She worked as a certified nursing assistant at Bethany Care Facility in Albion after she retired from teaching. She lived an active, vigorous and independent life. She is known in her community as a cheerful helper and an energetic doer. She was happiest when working in her garden, caring for her dog and tending her home and yard. She will be greatly missed by her many friends and her family.

She leaves daughters, Dorothy (Irving Stephens) and Catharine (Peter Busch); four grandchildren. She was the oldest of seven children, all of whom survive her: Marion True, Edmund Buschmann, Elizabeth (Jackie) Smith and Wally, John (Chris) and Fritz Buschmann. Her extended family includes many nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was predeceased by Bowdoin Barnes, her husband of 42 years; and Norman Linson, her second husband of nine years.