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Madeline
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Hobbs
1925 - 2018
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Obituary for Madeline Hobbs
Madeline Jean (Mitchell) Hobbs, 93 of Damariscotta, passed away on the evening of December 21st at the LincolnHealth-Miles Campus, from complications arising from a series of strokes.
Maddy was born in Everett, Massachusetts on May 28, 1925, the only child of T.A. and Muriel Mitchell. She grew up in Weymouth, Massachusetts, graduating from Weymouth High School, Katherine Gibbs School, and much later (1971) from Simmons College.
Maddy met her future husband, John, while he was stationed at the South Weymouth Naval Air Station and she was still in high school. They married on August 26, 1944.
Together, Maddy and John started Hobbs Studio in East Weymouth in 1948. They became well known photographers, locally and nationally, and had countless photographer friends all over the world.
Nothing meant more to Maddy than tending her flower gardens at the cottage on Riverview Road in Pemaquid. Until only a few years ago, a summer highlight was “the bridesmaids’ weekend.” Her bridesmaids, Audrey, Elsie, and Ann, and their husbands came to Maine for a weekend. The “girls” had been best friends since childhood, walking to grade school together.
Maddy truly lived a good and full life. At the time of John’s death in 2016, they had been married for 72 years. She will be missed by her son, Kimball and his wife Robin, of Buxton, Maine; grandson, Benjamin and his wife Sara, of Avon Lake, Ohio; granddaughter, Julie Currid and her husband John, of South Euclid, Ohio; and by four great grandchildren, Amelia and Emerson Hobbs and Emily and JAC Currid. She also leaves behind all of her friends from Chase Point in Damariscotta, and the Bristol Mills Congregational Church.
The family would like to thank all the staff at Chase Point and Miles Memorial Hospital for taking such excellent care of Maddy.
Services will be held this coming summer when friends, neighbors, and relatives retreat back to Maine. Arrangements are under the direction and care of the Strong-Hancock Funeral Home, 612 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME 04543. Condolences, and messages for her family, may be expressed by visiting: www.StrongHancock.com.
Maddy was born in Everett, Massachusetts on May 28, 1925, the only child of T.A. and Muriel Mitchell. She grew up in Weymouth, Massachusetts, graduating from Weymouth High School, Katherine Gibbs School, and much later (1971) from Simmons College.
Maddy met her future husband, John, while he was stationed at the South Weymouth Naval Air Station and she was still in high school. They married on August 26, 1944.
Together, Maddy and John started Hobbs Studio in East Weymouth in 1948. They became well known photographers, locally and nationally, and had countless photographer friends all over the world.
Nothing meant more to Maddy than tending her flower gardens at the cottage on Riverview Road in Pemaquid. Until only a few years ago, a summer highlight was “the bridesmaids’ weekend.” Her bridesmaids, Audrey, Elsie, and Ann, and their husbands came to Maine for a weekend. The “girls” had been best friends since childhood, walking to grade school together.
Maddy truly lived a good and full life. At the time of John’s death in 2016, they had been married for 72 years. She will be missed by her son, Kimball and his wife Robin, of Buxton, Maine; grandson, Benjamin and his wife Sara, of Avon Lake, Ohio; granddaughter, Julie Currid and her husband John, of South Euclid, Ohio; and by four great grandchildren, Amelia and Emerson Hobbs and Emily and JAC Currid. She also leaves behind all of her friends from Chase Point in Damariscotta, and the Bristol Mills Congregational Church.
The family would like to thank all the staff at Chase Point and Miles Memorial Hospital for taking such excellent care of Maddy.
Services will be held this coming summer when friends, neighbors, and relatives retreat back to Maine. Arrangements are under the direction and care of the Strong-Hancock Funeral Home, 612 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME 04543. Condolences, and messages for her family, may be expressed by visiting: www.StrongHancock.com.
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