Mary P. Handy

She was born in Boston, the daughter of the late Wincenty and Olga Krienke Golleski. She was educated in Boston schools, graduating from Roxbury Memorial High School for Girls. Mary was employed as a secretary and one of her many jobs was as a payroll clerk for the Moxie Soda Company in Massachusetts where she met her husband. She was married to Fred W. Handy Feb. 12, 1946 and he predeceased her in 2003.

While a resident of Greene, Mary attended Grace Lutheran Church in Auburn. She loved gardening, cooking, reading, writing, art, and music, and played the accordion and piano. Like her own mother, she was a true "katzenmutter"---German for "cat mother". Nothing was more important in her life than her family.

She is survived by two daughters, Susan E. Brown and husband Donald of Howland and Bonnie I. Handy and husband Jeffrey Pollard of Gray; a grandson, Robert K. Whitney and wife Samantha of Chester; three great grandchildren, Timothy James, Katherine, and Emily Whitney; a sister, Helen Hovestadt and husband John of Auburn; nieces Linda Clark and Diane Webber-Rawson; wonderful friends Tony, Sue, and Levi Brogna, and a special kitty named Mr. Longfellow.

She was predeceased by a grandson, James Whitney; two sisters, Josephine Golleski and Adeline Rhode; and three brothers, Charles, Otto and Edmund Rhode.

You are invited to share your condolences with the Handy family by visiting their guest book at www.thefortingroupauburn.com.

Family and friends will gather at Fortin/Auburn, Wednesday at 2:00 PM then form a procession to Valley Cemetery, Route # 202, Greene for a graveside service at 3:00 PM. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in her memory to the Rural Community Action Ministry, 81 Church Hill Road, Leeds, ME 04263. A service of The Fortin Group/Plummer & Merrill Funeral Home, Cremation and Monument Services, 217 Turner St. Auburn 783-8545