1910 - 1999 (88 years)
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Name |
Damon, Geneva Velzora |
Birth |
12 Dec 1910 |
Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [1] |
Gender |
Female |
Census |
05 Apr 1940 |
Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [2] |
Tombstone Photo |
Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [1] |
Buckfield Village Cemetery |
Death |
21 Sep 1999 |
Saco, York Co., ME |
Burial |
Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [1] |
Person ID |
I1498 |
My Damon Genealogy |
Last Modified |
12 Apr 2020 |
Father |
Damon, Alton, b. 08 Dec 1867, Bridgton, Cumberland Co., ME d. 28 Jul 1957, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME (Age 89 years) |
Mother |
Bearce, Annie Velzora, b. 21 Sep 1874 d. 31 Jul 1966, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME (Age 91 years) |
Marriage Intentions |
14 Sep 1895 |
Hebron, Oxford Co., ME [3] |
- Married by S.D. Richardson
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Marriage |
21 Sep 1895 |
Hebron, Oxford Co., ME [3, 4] |
Family ID |
F1183 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Birth - 12 Dec 1910 - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME |
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| Census - 05 Apr 1940 - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME |
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| Tombstone Photo - Buckfield Village Cemetery - - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME |
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| Death - 21 Sep 1999 - Saco, York Co., ME |
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| Burial - - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME |
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Notes |
- Buckfield town clerk; poet and writer
SACO - Geneva V. Damon, 88, poet and former town clerk of Buckfield, died Sept. 21 at
Evergreen Manor.
The daughter of Alton and Annie Bearce Damon, she graduated from Buckfield High School and the
School of Commerce in Auburn.
She was a bookkeeper for Maine Fruit Growers Exchange, Irish Bros. Manufacturing Co. and the IGA store in Buckfield.
In 1944 she moved to Saco and worked at Biddeford auto parts and Saco Lowell Shops.
Miss Damon then returned to Buckfield and became the town clerk in the 1950's working not from town hall but from her living room.
"It was nothing for an out-of-state hunter to pop in after 11 at night or at 5 in the morning" for a license, recalled Diane Tolman, her friend of 22 years.
According to her cousin, Roger Bearce, Miss Damon was also a tax collector in Buckfield and secretary to the principal of Buckfield High School.
She then moved to Nashua, N.H., and worked for J.M. McElwain in the purchasing department. She retired in 1966.
Her interests ranged from genealogy to old expressions. But as a member of the Buckfield Literary Club and the Buckfield Community Church, Miss Damon's true passions were writing and literature. She wrote humorous poems and essays on family. Poems and prose she published with her sister, Holly, were included in the Maine Women Writers Collections at the Abplanalp Library on the University of New England's Westbrook campus.
Miss Damon especially loved reading mysteries, and she was always eager to share her passion with others. "We'd stop in just to see Geneva, and when we left we'd suddenly have a book or two," said her cousin, Roger Bearce.
Described by Tolman as "the best" and a "true friend," Miss Damon was an excellent listener who never had a bad word to say. She had a wonderful sense of humour and was always there for her friends and family.
Said Bearce, "She was the strong but quiet person who was the center of gravity in the family. Geneva was the constant one."
Surviving are her niece, Jean Descrochers of Saco, with whom she resided, and two nephews, Richard Damon of Walnut Creek, Calif, and Gerard Sinclair of Portsmouth, N.H.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Oct 8, at Buckfield Community Church. Arrangements are by Cote Funeral Home.
- Lindsay Tice
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Sources |
- [S863] Buckfield Village Cemetery, (Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine; N Buckfield Rd; LAT/LON 44.29972N, -70.38389), Geneva V Damon marker.
- [S697] 1940 U.S. census, Oxford County, Maine, population schedule, Buckfield, enumeration district 9-9, p. 5A (penned), household 134, Holly A. and Guy E. Sinclair for Geneva V. Damon, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 October 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T627_1484.
- [S751] Maine, Vital Records, 1670-1907.
index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VZ3R-F1G : accessed 19 May 2014), Alton Damon and Annie Velzora Bearce, 21 Sep 1895, Marriage; citing Hebron, , Maine, State Board of Health, Augusta; FHL microfilm 9925.
- [S674] Obituary.
"Alton Damon," Lewiston (Maine) Daily Sun, 29 July 1957, p.2, col. 6, digital image; Google Newspaper Archives (http//:www.news.google.com/newspapers ; accessed 18 January 2016)
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