Obituary of Helen E. Blake

Saco - Helen E Blake, 96, passed away on July 23rd, 2012 at Seal Rock Nursing Home, Saco. She was born on November 4, 1915, the eldest daughter of Harry Macomber Wooster and Sara Poole Wooster of Old Town Maine. She graduated from the University of Maine Orono where she met her husband, William Blake, a forestry major from Greenfield Mass. She was a stay at home mother until 1958, when she became the librarian at the Southwick Mass. Public Library. She retired from there in January of 1981. She enjoyed living at Grist Mill Road in Franklin most of her life. If one word was chosen to describe her, it would have been “energetic”. She was hard to keep up with. She loved to cook and to serve her family. “Tag sale” was her art that she practiced with her sisters. She was predeceased by her husband William Blake (1968) and her brothers: Ted Wooster (1992), and Dick Wooster (1978), and her sisters: Dora Smith (2004) and Ruth Drew (1984). She is survived by her brother Harry Wooster and sister Midi Roberts, who is at Atlantic Heights in Saco. She is also survived by two sons: William Blake Jr. of N. Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Dick Blake of Chapel Hill, N.C. She has 4 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren, all in Maine. There will be an internment ceremony in Southwick Cemetery in September and a family memorial service in Franklin on the July 4th weekend next year.