Title	Miss
Last Name	Dresser
First Name	Annie
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Place of Birth	Uxbridge, MA
Date of Birth	1884-10-17
Place of Death	Dexter, Me
Date of Death	1914-03-03
Publication	Eastern Gazette 3-5-19p5/ 3-12-1914, p.5
Obituary	The death of Miss Annie Dresser occurred Tuesday at the home of her mother, Mrs. Charles Fish, on upper Main street, after a long illness, due to tuberculosis. She was a native of this town and was a graduate of Dexter High school, where she won honors in her studies. She was one who enjoyed the friendship of many and her large circle of was saddened by her death which, though not expected, was a shock. She was 29 years of age and is survived by her mother. On Tuesday, March 3, Miss Annie Dresser passed peacefully away, after a long and wasting illness. She was the only daughter of the late Emerson E. Dresser, formally of Bucksport, and Lucy Hart Dresser of Addison. She was born in Uxbridge, Mass., Oct. 17, 1884, attended the Dexter schools, and graduated in 1904 from Dexter High school with first honors. She graduated from Westbrook Seminary in 1905, holding one of the class parts, and the following year, became bookkeeper at the Seminary. Later she attended Burdett Business college, taking the short course there, and then taught until she began to fail in health and entered Hebron Sanitarium. She remained there about a year, after which she followed the prescribed treatment in her own home. She has failed rapidly the past year, and it became apparent to her friends that she could not recover. Her patience and cheerfulness through the years of sickness and suffering have showed her brave and courageous spirit. She was a girl of brilliant mind, untiring ambition, and wonderful strength of character, one whose intellectual and spiritual qualities were of the highest order. She created her own opportunities for improvement and was content only with the best that life had to give. She was dearly beloved by all who knew her, and admired by all for her sterling qualities. Reticent in disposition, those friends she had, she had "grappled to her soul with hoops of iron." She leaves a mother, Mrs. Chas. Fish, a sister, Mrs. Alice Gerrish and other relatives and friends. Funeral services were held at the Universalist church, Thursday, at two o clock, Rev. S. G. Spear officiating. The many floral offerings showed in part the deep esteem in which she was held by schoolmates, friends and neighbors.