Eleventh Generation

14347. Byron S. PHILBRICK³⁴⁷⁶ was born on 2 September 1913 in Maine.¹³⁴⁹

He appeared in the census in 1920 in Hampden, Penobscot, Maine.⁴⁹³ Age 6, born Maine, parents born Maine, living with widower father. Name Byron S. Philbrick.

He appeared in the census in 1930 in Kingfield, Franklin, Maine.⁴⁹³ Age 16, farm laborer, born Maine, parents born Maine. He was a boarder in the household of Clyde & Ivy Simmons. Name Byron Philbrick.

Byron died on 17 December 1994 at the age of 81 in Kingfield, Franklin, Maine.^1229,3476

Byron S. PHILBRICK and Clara Lillian THOMPSON were married on 9 May 1938 in Kingfield, Franklin, Maine.^1229,3476 They were both of Freeman, Maine.

Clara Lillian THOMPSON, daughter of John H. THOMPSON and Olive Heath DOLBIER, was born on 4 December 1921 in Freeman Township, Franklin, Maine.³⁴⁷⁶

She died on 29 June 2003 at the age of 81 in Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine.³⁴⁷⁶ Her obituary was published on 2 July 2003 in the Sun Journal in Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine.³⁴⁷⁶

LEWISTON — Clara Lillian Philbrick, 81, of Kingfield, died Sunday, June 29, at St. Mary’s Hospital following a long illness.

She was born Dec. 4, 1921, in Freeman, a daughter of John H. and Olive (Dolbier) Thompson.

She spent her youth with her loving grandparents on Freeman Ridge, where she was educated in the one-room school house and later in Kingfield schools.
In May of 1938, she married Byron Philbrick in Kingfield, where she worked and they raised their family together until his death in 1994.
Most of her working life she was employed by H.G. Winter and Sons as a supervisor of the Finishing Department, retiring after 41 years of service.
She and her husband also operated the Riverside Theatre for several years in the 1960s.

Mrs. Philbrick was a wonderful cook and homemaker, who was an acclaimed baker of yeast rolls and pies.

She was a past member of the Carrabassett Rebekah Lodge, the Methodist Women Willing Workers, the Sno Wanderers Snowmobile Club and was more recently a member of the Kingfield Senior Citizens.

She took pride in serving as a volunteer in the Civil Air Patrol during the 1950s in the Cold War.

In 2000, she was very pleased to be chosen as, “Mrs. Kingfield” during the annual Kingfield Days celebration.

Survivors include five children, Louise E. Lovejoy and Joseph Baris of Kingfield and Providence, R.I., Byron “Bud” Philbrick Jr. of Kingfield, Verna J. Sepe and her husband, Luke A. of Cranston, R.I., and Sanford, Fla., Sandra L. Niemi and her fiancé of Kingfield and Mexico Beach, Fla., and Rodney L. Philbrick and his wife, June of St. Augustine, Fla.; 12 grandchildren, Rhonda E. Lovejoy of Truckee, Calif., Stephen A. Sepe of Sanford, Fla., Luke A. Sepe Jr. and his wife, Trish of Clermont, Fla., Matthew J. Sepe of Cranston, R.I., Stephanie J. Philbrick and her husband, Maurice Dubriel of Portland, Rosemarie A. Myers and her husband, Ronald of Cranston, R.I., Jeffrey L. Niemi of Salem, Byron “Bud” Philbrick III and his wife, Kim of Coplin, Christina V. Sepe of Clermont, Fla., Lance N. Niemi and his wife, Anne of Newport, Loren J. Niemi of Augusta and Casey J. Philbrick of Portland; three great-grandchildren, Christina Myers of Cranston, R.I., Alexander J. Sepe of Sanford, Fla., and Luke Alexander Sepe III of Clermont, Fla.

She was predeceased by a daughter, Carol Ann; two sisters, Evelyn B. Wood and Hilda T. Arsenault; and a son-in-law, Richard E. Lovejoy.

She was buried at Sunnyside Cemetery in Kingfield, Franklin, Maine.

Byron S. PHILBRICK-42297 and Clara Lillian THOMPSON-42294 had the following children: