Meredith A. Plummer
12/21/1929 thru 6/22/2016
SPRINGVALE- Meredith June Abbott Plummer, 86, passed away after a brief stay at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough, Maine on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016, surrounded by love with her daughter and granddaughters at her bedside.
Merry was born in Swampscot, Massachusetts on December 21st, 1929. She was the older of Roswell W. and Dora M. (Scott) Abbott's two children. She lived with her family in Saugus, Massachusetts and they spent every summer at Nana Abbott's farm in Shapleigh, Maine. Merry graduated from Saugus High School in 1947 and received her Associates Degree in Commercial Science from Boston University in 1950.
Soon after college she moved to Sanford, Maine where she shared an apartment with her sister, Lorraine Faith Abbott, and she was employed in the Sales department of the Sanford Textile Mill.
Her mother set her up to go on a blind date to Square Pond with a guy named Bill Plummer and, out of respect for her mom, she said OK. By the end of the date, they had fallen in love and she married William R. Plummer on February 18th, 1956. Their only child, a daughter, Patricia E. Plummer, was born on December 20th, 1958, in Melrose, Massachusetts.
Together, Merry and Bill, owned and operated Tremont Street Garage in Melrose, Massachusetts until the spring of 1967 when they sold the business and moved to the Plummer’s family camp on Square Pond, in Shapleigh, Maine and started Plummers' Marina. Merry and Bill turned his parents' camp into a comfortable home and built a thriving marina business over the next 30 years.
In 1972, Merry's only sibling, Faith, her husband, Larry Thomas, and their two sons, Keith and Bruce were killed in a car accident. Merry and Bill quickly brought their only daughter, Sue Thomas, age 15, to live with them until she fell in love with, and married, Harold Tuttle, Jr. in 1976, after graduating from high school.
In 1983, her daughter married Roger A. Kidder in Sanford, Maine. Her granddaughter, Lindsay Ellen Kidder, was born in 1992 and in 1994, her second granddaughter, Rebecca Lauren Kidder, was born.
In 1997, Merry and Bill sold the marina and retired to Okeechobee County, Florida where they lived with their coterie of pets until Bill's death in 2012. Merry lived in their Florida home with their dog and five cats until she could no longer live alone. In 2014, Merry and her menagerie moved back to Maine to live with her daughter and son-in law in Springvale, Maine until she died.
Merry is survived by her daughter, son-in-law, two grandchildren, her niece, Susan L. (Thomas) Tuttle, Sue's husband, Harold Tuttle, Jr., their children, Bruce and his wife, Bridgette, Marla and Alana and Alana’s son, Camden. She is also survived by a cousin, Francis (Comey) Briggs, her family, a very large extended family-in-law of Plummers and by her beloved pets, Maury, Missy, Squeaky, Freckles, Johnny and K.C.
A Celebration of Meredith A. Plummer's Life is planned for 1:00 PM on July 30th, 2016, at the Sanford Unitarian Universalist Church on the corner of Main Street (Route 109) and Route 202 in Sanford, Maine. There will be a light reception immediately following the service in the church parlor.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Chad E. Poitras Cremation and Funeral Service, Buxton.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the "Corner Cupboard", York County's only non-food pantry serving those in need of necessary personal care items, and sent to the "Corner Cupboard", c/o Sanford U. U. Church, 5 Lebanon Street, Sanford, ME 04073.