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Visitation: 1 p.m. Thursday
September 1, 2016 at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral
Home in Mount Pulaski
Service:
2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Funeral home:
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, Mount Pulaski
Obituary
Margaret E. “Maggie” Swain, 98, of Mount Pulaski
passed away at 5:50 p.m. Sunday August 28, 2016 at
Vonderlieth Living Center in Mount Pulaski.
Maggie was born on January 12, 1918 in Presque Isle,
ME, to Albert W. and Emma Allen Bullerwell. She
lived in Caribou, ME, and graduated from Caribou
High School in 1936. She moved to Massachusetts
around 1938, living in Lynn and then Cambridge.
During WWII, she worked as a radio tube tester at
Raytheon Mfg. Co. She did dressmaking with her
mother for 3 years. She then worked as a bookkeeper
for 18 years for an insurance firm.
On September 12, 1970, she married Linn B. Swain and
lived in Burlington and worked as a secretary to the
Rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Cambridge
for 7 years. Linn, Maggie and her mother moved to
Mount Pulaski on November 2, 1983. Linn passed away
on January 5, 1985 after a short illness.
Maggie is a member of the Mount Pulaski United
Methodist Church, Mount Pulaski Women’s Club,
Billerica Chapter No. 212, Order of the Eastern Star
of Billerica, MA and Oppela Temple No. 50, Daughters
of the Nile of Boston, MA and was a volunteer at
Vonderlieth Living Center in Mount Pulaski.
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She is survived by many nieces and nephews.
Services for Maggie will be held at 2:00 p.m.
Thursday September 1, 2016 at
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount
Pulaski with Rev. Ziola Marty officiating.
Visitation will be one hour prior to services.
Burial will be at Mount Pulaski Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the Mount Pulaski First
United Methodist Church.
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