Biddeford Journal Tribune Biddeford, ME
Monday, February 5th, 2001
Olive Legere
SPRINGVALE - Olive R. Legere, 86, of Beaver Hill Road, died Friday at the Newton Center in Sanford.
She was born in Douglas Hill on April 18, 1914, a daughter of Lewis A. and Maude Merrifield Dolloff, and was a 1932 graduate and salutatorian of the former Potter Academy in Sebago.
She was a waitress at the former Capitol Restaurant in Sanford for several years. She and her husband, Lorenzo J. Legere, owned and operated Legere's Bakery and the Firestone Store in Sanford. She retired several years ago from
Hillcrest Manor, where she had worked as a nurse's aid. Mrs. Legere was a member of the Emblem Club in Sanford. Her interests included music, dancing, reading and writing poetry. She especially loved her family and friends, and was always ready with the latest joke.
Her husband died in 1985.
Survivors include her son, Ronald "Bud" of Sanford; four daughters, Connie Day of Wells, Shirley Quimby of Sanford, Joanne Vail of Hollis, N.H. and Rebecca Marston of Springvale; two sisters, Dolly Lord and Beulah Osgood, both of Bridgton; and 17 grandchildren.