Priscilla Evelyn Bowles Falardeau, RN, passed away Sunday, July 8, 2012, at the Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin. Born on June 22, 1927, to Evelyn (Stenberg) Bowles and Leonard Bowles in Berlin, she was 85.
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