Lila Pearl Holloway Pinkham, 101, passed away peacefully on the evening of Aug. 10. Born in Kingfield on Feb. 14, 1912, she was the daughter of Harry P. and Sarah Douglas Holloway. As a teenager, she accepted a summer job in Edgecomb where she met and later married her husband, Albion H. Pinkham, on Nov. 28, 1929. They resided in Sheepscot for much of their married life before spending their elder years at the Franklin School Apartments in Newcastle.
Pearl was a housewife while her daughters were young, but later worked as a circulating nurse in the operating room at Miles Hospital in Damariscotta.
She enjoyed getting together with family and friends, reading and knitting. She loved to dance, and always claimed she was pretty good at the “fox trot.” Pearl lived independently in her apartment until the age of 100, then spent the last months of her life at Cove’s Edge in Damariscotta, and the Wiscasset Green Assisted Living Facility, where she became extremely close with staff and residents.
Pearl was predeceased by her husband, Albion Pinkham; daughter, Joan Creamer; sons-in-law, Perley “Jake” Creamer, and John Tuttle; and siblings, James Douglas, Frances Brown, Kathleen Copp, Douglas Holloway and Ethel Hoppe.
She is survived by daughter, Joyce Tuttle of Nobleboro; grandchildren, Stephen Giles of Boothbay, Deborah Giles of Portsmouth, N.H., Ronald Giles of Southport, Bonnie Giles of Boothbay Harbor, Kathleen Creamer of Damariscotta, Terri Geroux and husband Herb of Newcastle, and Mark Creamer and wife Kim of Damariscotta; and multiple generations of grandchildren, including a great-great-great grandson.
Memorial gifts in her name may be made to the Wiscasset Green Assisted Living Facility at the Eldercare Network of Lincoln County, P.O. Box 652, Damariscotta, ME 04543.
A celebration of Pearl’s life will be held at 10 a.m., Sat., Aug. 24 at the First Baptist Church of Nobleboro, 239 Center St., Nobleboro.
Condolences, and messages for the family, may be expressed by visiting www.StrongHancock.com.
Arrangements are under the direction and care of the Strong-Hancock Funeral Home, 612 Main St., Damariscotta.
