PORTLAND – Evis W. “Pip” Harlow, 79, of Bryant Pond, died Dec. 19, at Maine Medical Center.

She was born in Oxford, the oldest child of W. Stanley and Gladys (Thurlow) Haskell on March 23, 1927. Pip was educated in local schools and graduated from Oxford High School and Bliss Business College. She married Myron “Bud” Harlow in Portland on June 21, 1950.

She had been employed at Central Maine Power for a few years, then spent many years as a homemaker and day-care provider for children. She was presently working at Ledgeview Living Center in West Paris in the activity department, starting there when the facility first opened on September 13, 1971.

She was a life member of the Oxford Seventh-Day Adventist Church, serving faithfully in many ways, but mostly loved teaching Sabbath School with the children. She was a very caring person, always thinking of others before herself. She loved her family deeply and had opened her home to anyone who needed her nurturing spirit. She especially enjoyed camping, traveling with her husband, scrapbooking and collecting dolls.

She is survived by her husband, “Bud” of Bryant Pond; two sons, Michael Harlow, and his wife, Julia, of Norway and Kerry Harlow, and his wife, Trudy, of Bryant Pond; one daughter, Patti Yates, and her husband, John, of Norway; one brother, William Stanley Haskell of Oxford; two sisters, Inette Conant of Mechanic Falls and Marlene Perry of Paris; 10 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

She was predeceased by one sister, Winona Dunn, of Connecticut.