1918 – 2015

NORWAY — Doris “Dot” K. McAllister, 96, passed away at the Norway Convalescent Center in Norway on Friday, April 17.

She was born on the family farm in West Fryeburg on Dec. 18, 1918, the daughter of Herman and Hannah Gilman. She attended grammar school by way of a horse and buggy and later graduated from Fryeburg Academy in 1936. Doris married D. Elford McAllister on June 18, 1938. She was employed by her brother-in-law at the Fryeburg Coffee Shop where she befriended many of the Fryeburg Academy students and then at the Fryeburg Shoe Shop. After retirement, she returned to work as a volunteer in the pharmacy department at Stephen’s Memorial Hospital where she was honored as the oldest volunteer.

Doris and her husband enjoyed square dancing, snowmobiling, listening to the loons on Back Pond in Stoneham and providing a very special time for all their grandchildren to be together in both summer and winter.

Doris was a member of the Pythagorean Chapter No. 169, Order of the Eastern Star in Fryeburg, a member of the Lovell VFW Auxillary and also worked at the VFW Booth Fryeburg Fair and was also a member of the Red Hat Society.

After loosing her husband of 53 years, she shared a home in Waterford with her brother-in-law, Carroll Fogg, who had also suffered the loss of his wife of many years.

Doris is survived by her son, Daniel and his wife, Sally, of Hampden; a son, Conrad (Butch) and his wife, Nancy, of Norway; and a daughter-in-law, Elizabeth McAllister of Rochester, N.H.; eight grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter.

She is predeceased by her husband, Elford; a son, Terence; two brothers, Myron and Jesse Gilman; and two sisters, Marion Mandoff and Vellie Reed.

Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.woodfuneralhome.org.