Phyllis A. Bancroft

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Phyllis A. Bancroft

SOUTH PARIS — Phyllis A. Bancroft, 85, of South Paris, formerly of Albany Township, died Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at the Maine Veterans Home in South Paris. She was born in Bethel on September 19, 1926, the daughter of Guy and Grace P. Clough Morrill. She graduated from Gould Academy in 1945.

She had been employed at New England Telephone, B. E. Cole shoe shop, Francine Shoe, Newton Tibbetts Mill, Youngs Mill and Echo in Locke Mills. She retired from Norway Footwear. She married Stanley L. Lapham; he died in 1951. She later married William Bancroft in 1955. She was a member of the West Parish Congregational Church in Bethel, an Alumnus of Gould Academy and a 25-year member of the Pleasant Valley Grange.

Survivors include a son, Richard Lapham of Galveston, TX; a daughter, Judith Lapham Halle and her husband Paul of Lisbon Falls; granddaughter, Stephanie Halle Krolak and her husband Brian and their daughters, Abigail and Madison all of Brunswick; grandson, Gregory Halle of Lisbon Falls and his daughter Sydney Halle of Augusta; sisters, Elizabeth Gilbert of Bethel and Alta Smith of Albany Township and her companion Duke Meserve; sisters-in-law, Muriel Lapham Kimball of South Paris, Agnes Lahti of Norway, Elizabeth “Buzzy” Lapham of Albany Township and Angeline McPheason of Dixfield and many loving nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents, Guy and Grace Morrill; her first husband, Stanley L. Lapham; brothers-in-law, Howard Lapham, Walter Lapham, Warren Lapham, Earlon Keniston, Raymond Arsenault, George Gilbert, Bruce Smith, Lauris Millett and Guy Bancroft; sisters-in-law, Myrtle Keniston, Marion Arsenault, Virginia Lapham, Alma Millett, Velma Thompson and Thelma Merrill and her second husband, William O. Bancroft on October 31, 2006.

Funeral services were held on Saturday, January 21 at the West Parish Congregational Church in Bethel. Family and friends  attended visitation on Friday, January 20 at Chandler Funeral Homes & Cremation Service, 45 Main Street, South Paris. Interment will be in the spring at Pulpit Rock Cemetery in Waterford. In lieu of flowers, those wishing to donate may do so to the Activities Fund, c/o Pat Paar, Maine Veterans Home, 477 High St., South Paris, ME 04281. On-line condolences may be shared with her family at www.chandlerfunerals.com.