NEWRY — Mary Lou Chapman Cole Berry, 83, died at her home in Newry on Friday, Aug. 26.

She was born on Jan. 6, 1928, to Jesse and Eva Thompson Chapman on Main Street in Bethel in what is now S.S. Milton’s.

In her formative years, she hung out at the bowling alley next door, which was owned by her family. She graduated from Gould Academy in 1945 and moved to Boston at the age of 18. She married Andrew Cole in 1947 and they had two daughters, Rhonda and Mary Lou, and a son, Robert A. Cole.

She worked waitressing in West Roxbury and Dorchester and then attended Wilfred’s Cosmetology School of Boston and worked 20 years in the field. She returned to her love of waitressing, working at Woolworth’s in Dedham for 11 years. She finished her working years as a front desk receptionist at Dedham Medical Association, a job she thoroughly enjoyed.

In 1990, she wed her high school sweetheart, Francis “Hi” Berry, and they lived and loved and enjoyed life together on Lone Pine Road.

She is survived by her two daughters, Rhonda Dalton and husband, Brian, of Rotunda West, Fla., and Mary Lou Killelea and husband, Roger, of Walpole, Mass; her son, Robert A. Cole and wife, Joanne, of Middleborough, Mass.; brothers, Dana Eames and wife, Beverly, of Wilton and Hugh Chapman and wife, Linsley, of Gilead; sister-in-law, Kay Eames; Hi’s children, Marjorie Osgood and husband, Jim, of Newry, David F. Berry and companion, Robin Gilbert, of Bethel, E. Scott Berry and wife, Rocky, of Newry, and Denise Roderick and husband, Larry, of Rumford; a foster daughter, Diane O’Leary; and the very best friend in the world, Rachel Brown McKay; and many grandchildren; great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by the love of her life, Francis “Hi” Berry; her parents; brothers, Rodney, Everett, Carl and Harold Eames; and her only sister, Lila Eames Brown.

Special thanks to Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice; Merrill Bittner; her caregivers, Mary Wilson, Brenda Bartholomew and Mabel Buiniskas; and to her many other friends and relatives that have been so good to her through the years.

Online condolences may be shared with her family at www.chandlerfunerals.com.