Jill C. Dugas

Jill was born in Red Bank, NJ on August 21, 1959; the daughter of Earnest and Elodia (Adams) Foster. Jill attended New Jersey schools as a child, and graduated from Nutley High School. Following high school, Jill continued her education and earned an Associate’s Degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology as well as a Bachelor’s Degree from Seton Hall University in Computer Science.

After many years of being a ‘stay at home’ mom and active voluntary, she found a way to turn one of her passions into a business. Jill started her own interior design business. One of her projects was designing the ski shop at Sugarloaf Ski Resort, where she also enjoyed an active life of skiing New England’s greatest mountain. An active and athletic woman, Jill enjoyed the slopes in the winter, and sailing the ocean in the summer. One of her favorite past times was spending time with family and friends at their camp on Embden Pond and waterskiing with her girls. Jill, along with her husband Paul and their daughters Kristin and Caroline enjoyed travelling and simply spending time together enjoying life.

Jill will be remembered as a loving, creative woman with a zest for life and true love of family. She was an amazing compassionate, loving mother and wife and loyal friend to many.

Jill is predeceased by her father Earnest Foster.

Surviving are Jill’s mother Elodia Foster of Aiken, SC; her husband Paul Dugas of Cumberland Foreside, their daughters Kristin and Caroline of Cumberland Foreside; two sisters, Stephanie Scott and her husband Chuck of Trenton, SC, Suzanne Seaman and her husband Michael of Sacramento, CA, as well as many nieces, nephews and extended family members and friends.

A period of visitation for Jill’s family and friends will be held this Friday, October 25th from 3 to 7 PM at the Jones, Rich & Hutchins Funeral Home, 199 Woodford St., Portland, ME. Funeral services for Jill will be held on Saturday the 26th at the Emmaus Lutheran Church, 265 Middle Rd., Falmouth, ME at 2:00 PM.

In lieu of flowers the Dugas family has requested memorials be made in Jill’s memory to the Cancer Community Center at www.cancercommunitycenter.org, or the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House at www.hospiceofsouthernmaine.org.