Eleanor Belle Thayer

Eleanor was born in Lewiston on March 12, 1934 and grew up in Livermore. She attended the one room Soper School and then attended and graduated from Leavitt Institute in 1952. She began nursing school at Newton Wellesley Hospital and left school to get married. Later in life she was very proud to graduate from CMCC’s LPN program in 1983 with highest honors.

She met and married Richard Thayer in 1953. They divorced many years later but Dick continued to be a significantly important part of her life until the very end. They purchased a home in Minot where she resided until her health did not permit for her to continue to live there two years ago. Ellie was predeceased by both parents Louise and Lawrence Boothby. She is survived by daughter Cindy Pooler and husband Alan of Chelsea and son, Dan Thayer of Durham, siblings; Charlie Boothby and wife Judy of Bangor, Sam Boothby and wife Anna of Gorham, and Wilma Irish and husband Bill of Livermore. She had four grandsons; Benjamin Ramsdell and wife Meghann of Farmingdale, Nicholas Ramsdell of Portland, Oregon, Tyler Thayer of Auburn and Ross Thayer of Lewiston. She also had special relationships with “daughter” Lidia Davis, husband Mark, and son Brent of San Diego, California as well as many nieces, nephews, special cousins, and many many dear friends.

Eleanor was proud of her role as a housewife and was especially proud of her home and perennial gardens in Minot. She also worked for Wallingford Orchards, Bookland, and was self-employed for Thayer Perennials, and Mary Kay Cosmetics as well as her own home day care. She was a member of the Minot School Board, Young Homemakers Extension Service, Twin County Extension Executive Board, 4-H Leader, Minot Community Club, Host Family, for both American Field Service and Youth for Understanding and a member of the Elm Street Universalist Church.

Above all else Ellie loved her family and friends. She also loved to read, garden, sew, do needlework and craft making. She loved children; her own children and grandchildren, those she babysat for, the children in the Clover Day Care and any child that she saw in the community. She had a quick dry wit, was a chocolate lover and was a fanatic about Christmas and Christmas decorating.

We would like to thank all of the staff on the Donegal and Belfast Units of Clover Health Care and all of the staff from Beacon Hospice for the exemplary loving care that they provided over the past two years.

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Thayer-Died in Auburn April 27th. Eleanor Belle Boothby age 81. Funeral services will be held on Sunday May 3rd at 2:00pm at the First Universalist Church 169 Pleasant St. in Auburn. Burial will be held later in the spring at North Auburn Cemetery. Charitable donations may be made in Eleanor’s name to the Minot Historical Society, 425 Center Minot Hill Road, Minot, Maine 04258. Family and friends are invited to visit on Saturday May 2nd from 4 to 7 PM at the Pinette Dillingham & Lynch Funeral Home 305 Alfred Plourde Parkway Lewiston, ME 04240. 784-6449.