Marion Emily (“Monnie”) Cary, of Edgecomb, passed away Nov. 29 at Knox Center Nursing Home in Rockland. She died as she had lived: simply, quietly, and peacefully.
Monnie was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 11, 1911, the daughter of Edith and William T. Dunham. She attended South Side High School in Rockville Center, N.Y., where she played championship tennis, basketball and field hockey. In 1932, she graduated from Elmira College.
In 1933, Monnie married Frank Dudley. They settled in Wallingford, Vt., where he began his family medical practice, and where their two children were born.
For many years, Monnie lived as a single parent in the Plymouth, N.H. area, teaching in rural one-room schools. During those years she enjoyed skiing, mountain climbing, hunting, fishing and camping, often with her two children.
In 1945, she began her training and worked as a medical technologist at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover, N.H. She continued that work in New Hampshire, Arizona, Colorado, New York, and Massachusetts.
In 1959, she married Louis Cary and they settled in Mena, Ark. They both became proficient weavers.
In the last twenty years, Monnie lived in Edgecomb, where she continued to make weaving the center of her life. For several of those years she was a volunteer worker for Kno-Wal-Lin Home Health Care in Newcastle.
Before moving to Knox Center, Monnie lived in Wiscasset Green Assisted Living where she enjoyed a fine sense of community, and received sensitive and loving care from the staff.
Survivors include her son, Glenn Dudley of Newbury, N.H. and wife Jean; daughter, Bobsy Dudley-Thompson and husband Valmar of Edgecomb; brother, Herbert of Littleton, Col.; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
Family memorial gathering is planned for early summer.
Memorial donations in Marion Cary’s name may be made to the fund that supports the building of a Kno-Wal-Lin Hospice House, c/o Sarah Dwelley, 190 Pleasant St., Rockland, ME 04841.
Arrangements are entrusted to the University of New England Anatomical Donor Program, Biddeford.
