POWNAL — Bonnie Lee Lumb, 68, of Pownal passed away Monday, Sept. 17, from complications due to Alzheimer’s disease.
Bonnie graduated from Lewiston High School in 1969 and immediately joined the Women’s Army Corps. She served her country at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, Arkansas and in Belgium at SHAPE headquarters. She left the service to start a family with Peter Lumb, who was in the British Army.
Bonnie traveled around Europe following her husband’s Army career, while caring for her three loving children. She loved nature, flowers and folk music; she would play guitar and sing to her children often. While in England she worked on programs to help advance troubled youth.
She returned to Lewiston after her husband’s retirement from the service, where she worked as a clerk with Lewiston City Hall. She was an advocate of lifelong learning and earned her associate degree in accounting at UMA. Even in her later years, she knitted hats for premature babies in the hospital until she could no longer remember how to knit due to her illness.
Bonnie was surrounded by her loving family during her final hours at the Maine Veterans’ Home in Scarborough. She will be sadly missed and remembered by many friends and family both in the United States and abroad.
Bonnie leaves behind her husband, Peter Lumb; daughters Heather Lumb and Jennifer and her husband, (Jim) Conley; and grandchildren Evan and Pierce Ernst, Alexandra and Aidan Conley. Bonnie also leaves behind her sisters, Sharon Bell, Mona Karole, Sue Huppe; and her mother, Frieda Merrill.
She was preceded by her son, Andrew Lumb; brother, Greg Fickett; and her father, Lee Fickett.
The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at St. Ann’s Episcopal Church, 40 Windham Center Road, Windham, with a luncheon to follow. An interment service will follow at 1 p.m. at the gravesite at Mayberry Cemetery, Park Road, Windham, with military honors.
To share a memory or condolence, please visit www.coastalcremationservices.com.
Bonnie Lee (Fickett) Lumb
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