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Olive May Waterman

Olive May Waterman (nee Gibbs) of Fryeburg Harbor, Maine, passed away on March 7, 2026, at the age of 93.

Born in Norwich, England, in 1932, she was the fourth of six children. She had memories of growing up under the threat of World War II, wearing a gas mask to school and learning to knit with her sisters to pass the long hours spent in bomb shelters. She had stories of emerging to find German bombs had destroyed great swaths of her village.

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