Ida M. Dumont
1916 – 2010

AUBURN — Ida M. Dumont, 93, formerly of Maison Marcotte and the Sarah Frye Home, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 23, at the Hospice House, with family at her side.

She was born July 27, 1916, in Frenchville, the third child of nine children born to Onezime and Edith (Vaillancourt) Ouellette and was educated in Frenchville schools. Coming to Lewiston in the 1930s, she met and married her husband, Paul Dumont. They were married for 58 years, until his death in 1994.

Together they owned and operated the family business, the Triangle Service Station at the corners of Campus Avenue and Sabattus Street, until his retirement in 1969. In her younger years, she enjoyed traveling and visiting her family in Rhode Island. She loved to knit and made hats and mittens for all her grandchildren. Her greatest love was to see and enjoy her great-grandchildren, especially her last born, Sophia. She was a member of Holy Family Church. She will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her.

She leaves two sons, Paul Dumont Jr. and wife, Claudette, of Lewiston and Richard Dumont and wife, Constance, also of Lewiston; four grandchildren, Donna Hopkins and her husband, George, of Sabattus, Bryan Dumont of Buckfield, Denise Dumont Bernier and her husband, Howard, of Scarborough and Daniel Dumont and wife, Buffy, of Lewiston; six great-grandchildren, Jonathan Hopkins, Ashley, Christopher and Benjamin Dumont, Ella Dumont Charpentier and Sophia Bernier; stepgreat-grandchildren, Brianne Gilmore, Alyssa Bernier and Ethan and Abigail Hoffay; three sisters, Berdina Roy, Regina Lafayette and Arlene Bolduc and husband, Norman; two brothers, Norman Ouellette and Jean Ouellette and wife, Lorraine, all of Rhode Island; as well as many nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her husband, Paul; two sisters, Anna Michaud and Alphena Plourde; and a brother, Pete Ouellette.

Her family would like to express their sincere thanks to the caring staff at the Sarah Frye Home, where she lived for the past year, for the wonderful care and treatment that she received while residing there, as well as to the wonderful staff of Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice.