1936 – 2016

FREEPORT — Ruby Silver of West Paris died Friday, Sept. 30, at Hawthorne House in Freeport. She was 80.

Ruby was born in West Peru on March 31, 1936, the eldest daughter of James Kenneth and Bernice (Child) Palmer. She graduated from Stevens High School in Rumford in 1954 and attended beautician school in Portland.

She married Burton Hathaway of Bryant Pond in 1956, with whom she had two children, Victor Hathaway, in 1959, and Tania (Hathaway) Sturtevant, in 1961. She later married Robert Silver of West Paris, with whom she made a home until his death in 1997.

In addition to making a home and raising her children, Ruby worked at Stowell’s Mill in Bryant Pond and at Mann’s Mill in West Paris, and for several years drove school bus for SAD 44. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. She loved to read and to garden and to cook. She was very creative, producing much handcraft over the years, especially crochet.

Ruby is survived by her children, Victor and Tania, a daughter-in-law, Beth, and a beloved granddaughter, Sophia, all of Yarmouth.

She was predeceased by her parents; her younger sister, Sherry Worth; and her husband, Robert.

Her family would like to thank the staff at both Freeport Place and Hawthorne House for their kindness and caring in the last year and a half of Ruby’s life.