Louise Copeland Fowler

Louise was born to Annah Cushman Copeland and Stuart Brown Copeland on September 3rd, 1932, in Bangor, Maine close to “The Boulders”, her family’s camp on Branch Pond in Ellsworth. She spent most of the summers of her life at “camp” on the lake. She grew up in Cloquet, Minnesota where her father was the President of the Northwest Paper Company. She graduated from the Master’s School in Dobb’s Ferry, New York. She was a lifetime member of the Episcopal Church and later served as the first female lay reader in the Diocese of Western Massachusetts.

On August 4th, 1952, she married Major Richard Harriman Maeder at St. Saviour’s Episcopal Church in Hulls Cove, Maine on Mount Desert Island. Known as “Weezie” and “Dick” to friends and family, they traveled the world in service of the US Army for thirty years living in Paris, France; Izmir, Turkey; Mons, Belgium; Washington, DC; Middlebury, VT; Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania and Fort Devens, Massachusetts.

In 1974, Richard retired as a Colonel from the US Army. Fulfilling a long held dream, Louise and Richard moved to “Cherry Hill Farm” surrounded by rolling hills in Lunenburg, Massachusetts and to “The Horizon” a beach house in Venice, Florida.

Throughout her life, Louise was always engaged in charitable work: helping young families adjust to army life; then helping to resettle Hmong families from Vietnam to the US and, in Florida, providing outreach to migrant farm worker families in Immokalee, Florida.

After Richard died in 1990, Louise moved to Mountain Avenue in Woodstock, Vermont and enjoyed the community and the Vermont countryside for many years making many friends. Louise met and married Reverend Warren Fowler in Vermont.

Eventually, Louise moved to Sarasota, Florida to be close to her daughter, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Louise is survived by her three children: Richard (MaryBeth), Susannah (Philip)and Stuart (Jennifer); seven grandchildren: Kaitlin (Peter), Annah (William), Clara (Alex), Stuart (Ellie), Peter, Isa and Virginia; and seven great grandchildren: Mac, Idi, Lou, Nelli, Owen, Mae and Asa.

A celebration of life will be held in her honor on Branch Pond in Ellsworth, Maine at a later date.

Donations may be made in her name to: Guadalupe Social Services/Catholic Charities, 211 S 9th St, Immokalee, FL 34142.