Title	Mrs.
Last Name	Sherburne
First Name	Marguerite
Middle Name	Ellen
Maiden Name	Robertson
Nick Name
Place of Birth	Hartland, ME
Date of Birth	1917-05-19
Place of Death	Dexter, ME
Date of Death	2012-12-25
Publication	Eastern Gazette Jan 4-10, 2013 pg 5
Obituary	MARGUERITE ELLEN ROBERTSON SHERBURNE DEXTER - Marguerite Ellen Robertson Sherburne, 95, passed away peacefully on Christmas morning, Dec 25, 2012 at Dextsr Health Care. She was cherished and dearly loved by all of her family and friends. She was born in Hartland, May 29, 1917, the daughter of Earle 0. Robertson and Ruth (Finson) Robertson Bubar. She married Weston R. Sherburne in 1941, moving into Weston’s great grandfather’s farm on Ripley Road in Dexter where she lived for the next 71 years, raising five children. Maggie, as she was known to most people, dearly loved to have family and friends around her. Her home was always open and she hosted frequent large dinners for her family and friends, all sitting around her table in the large farm kitchen, laughing, telling stories and playing cards. She was a quintessential farm cook, serving baked beans and biscuits on Saturday evenings, frying up batches of donuts and baking her special coffee bars. She was certain of the inherent goodness of dairy food, believing that butter and cream made everything better. She spent her summers on Great Moose Pond in Hartland, where Weston built her a suninier cottage. She enjoyed boating and fishing and continuing to host family and friends. Marguerite was an active farm wife, driving the tractor and trucks, milking cows and doing all those farm tasks that enabled her and her husband to maintain the farm. Even as a young woman she took over as the family matriarch, embracing and holding together both her own and her husband’s families together, caring for her elderly mother-in-law, other elderly live-in boarders and the remaining members of her family. Even decades later, she was diligent in remembering her loved ones that had passed on, planting flowers in their memory Marguerite worked on the farm as well as at Snow Flake Canning Company. She worked on the original crew at Dexter Shoe Company from 1956-68. She was a member of the First Baptist Church. She was active in the Couples’ Club, White Cross work, the Elizabeth Towle Guild, and she taught Sunday School. She founded the Heart of Maine 4-H Club in 1950. She was a 75 year Grange member, a member of the Dexter Women’s Literary Club, the Maine Cooperative Extension, serving as the President of Maine Women’s Extension in the 1980’s. During this time she traveled to Germany as state representative to the World Extension Congress. She is survived by her children, Beverly and her husband, Ronald Watson of Cambridge, Frances and her husband John Carroll of Westford, MA, Bonnie and her husband, Paul Hayward of Blairsville, daughter-in-law, Amanda Sherburne of Ripley, and Fred and his wife, Carol Sherburne of Dexter; 14 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren; a brother, Gerald Robertson; a cousin, Maxine Furbush of Clive, IA; and many nieces and nephews. She is predeceased by her husband of 49 years, Weston Sherburne; her son, Joseph Sherburne; and a brother, Erlfred. Funeral services were held at the First Baptist Church in Dexter, Saturday, December 29, 2012. Spring burial will be in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Dexter. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The First Baptist Church, RO. Box 573,Dexter, ME 04930 or The Abbott Memorial Library, 1 Church St., Dexter, ME 04930. Arrangements by Crosby & Neal, Dexter. For an online guest register, go to wwwCrosbyNeal.com.