Ellsworth Hathaway

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Ellsworth Hathaway

WEST PARIS — Ellsworth (Willy) Cuvier Hathaway died in Norway on September 21, 2012. He was born in Rumford on July 4, 1925 to Lester W. and Ismay Jackson Hathaway of Bryant Pond. He entered the U. S. Navy his junior year in high school, 1943, and served in the South Pacific on a minesweeper returning home in 1946; he graduated from Woodstock High School in 1947. He married Joyce Cummings in that same year and they had four children - Brian E, who died in 1957, Karen and husband, Denis Fortier of Keene, NH, Jane Hathaway and Myles Silverman of Las Cruces, NM and David L. and wife, Sumi Hathaway of Fayetteville, NC. They had seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. He loved his children very much and reminisced over the great times they had camping with them, with usually a few nieces and nephews joining them.

He is also survived by three sisters, Alice McInnis, Lois Day and Ann Bickford and one brother, John. He was predeceased by his parents; a son, Brian; two brothers, Terence and Alton and a sister, Beatrice Judkins.

Mr. and Mrs. Hathaway built and owned Hathaway’s Country Store in Locke Mills for 25 years; they then moved to South Woodstock where he started a sawmill, which he ran for several years. He moved to West Paris in 2004. He liked working with wood and enjoyed wood carving of birds and other things. He liked traveling and covered all but four states in his motor home, often taking his sister Alice and Ken McInnis with them and one time Bev and Dick Melville. He really loved these times and often wished he were able to travel more.

He was a member of the Locke Mills Union Church, Jackson Silver Post American Legion and the Greenwood Historical Society.

At Mr. Hathway's request, no visiting hours or services will be held; private services will be held for the family at a later date. Donations in his memory may be made to the Locke Mills Union Church, P. O. Box 147, Greenwood, ME 04255 or to a charity of your choice Arrangements by Cliff Gray Cremation & Funeral Services, 60 Andrews Road, Bryant Pond.