Title
Mrs.
Last Name
Page
First Name
Celia
Middle Name
A.
Maiden Name
Bassett
Nick Name
Place of Birth
Dexter, ME
Date of Birth
1853-04-17
Place of Death
Dexter, ME
Date of Death
1940-12-11
Publication
The Eastern Gazette 12-12-1940, p.5
Obituary
Mrs. Celia A. Page Mrs. Celia A. Page passed away Wednesday afternoon at her home after a brief illness of pneumonia. She was born in Dexter, April 17, 1853, in the house on Spring street now occupied by Mrs. S. J. Redman. She was the daughter of Hiram Bassett and Susan Butler Bassett and when a young girl came with them to the home on Zion's Hill. After leaving high school she worked for her father in his dry goods store for several years. In 1882 she married Edward Page of the Page Spearing Co. Guilford and lived in that town until his death in 1904, when she came back to the old home in Dexter. She was the last of the Bassett family of four children; Ellen Derry, Clara Flynt, Celia Page and Harry Bassett all of whom spent their last years in the old home on Zion's Hill, and all will lie in the same lot in Mt. Pleasant cemetery. Mrs. Page belonged to the Eastern Star, the Woman's Literary Club and the Univrsalist church. She was an interesting companion, a kind friend and neighbor, in fact a real gentlewoman, and will be greatly missed by her many friends in both Guilford and Dexter. She is survived by a niece, Hester Bassett of Boston, and three nephews, Stanley Bassett of Auburn, and Guy and Harry Flint of Massachusetts. Funeral services will be at the home Saturday afternoon at three o'clock, Rev. Kenneth R. Hutchinson officiating.