Elizabeth “Betty” Winkfield Bolster, summer resident of Pemaquid, died March 10 at the Androscoggin Hospice House in Auburn.
Betty was born on May 22, 1926 in Newton, Mass. and grew up in Jamaica Plain, Mass. She was born to Holley Stetson Winkfield and Dorothy Barker Winkfield. She married Arthur Stanley Bolster Jr. (Stan) in 1949. She graduated from Simmons College and was an executive assistant for many years for the superintendent of schools in Lexington, Mass.
In retirement, Betty and Stan wintered in Florida and spent their summers in Maine. She volunteered at the Bristol Public Library, the Boothbay Harbor Public Library Used Book Store, Pemaquid Light House, and Miles Hospital; and Wellington Hospital and Southern Florida Science Museum in Florida.
Betty was predeceased by her son, Greg Bolster.
She is survived by husband, Stan; son, Stephen Clark Bolster and wife Sandra Spearen Bolster of Berea, Ky.; daughter-in-law, Leslie Cheney Bolster of Walpole; grandchildren, Evan Bolster of Berea, Ky., Todd and wife Emilie Bolster of Carmel, Ind., Katherine Bolster of Gloucester, Mass., and Chad, and Matthew Bolster of Walpole; and great-grandchildren, Haylee, Sylvie and Ian Bolster of Carmel, Ind.; and brother, Stetson Winkfield and wife Jean of New Hampshire and Florida.
Per Betty’s request, there will not be a service.
In honor of her many years of service, donations are suggested to the Bristol Public Library, P.O. Box 173, New Harbor, ME 04554.
