"BRIDGTON -- Eleanor Hebb Stearns, 94, died Aug. 12, 2007, at the Bridgton Health Care Center in Bridgton, where she had been a resident for the past year.
She was born Feb. 25, 1913, to the late Dr. Angus and Jane Simpson Hebb of Bridgton the youngest of nine children. She graduated from Bridgton High School in 1931 and continued her education at Gorham Normal School. Ellie taught in a one room school house in Lovell.
She chose marriage over a teaching career when she married Fred Stearns of Lovell in 1939, because married, female teachers were not hired at that time. During their early married years both were employed by Rudy Vallee at his lodge on Kezar Lake,
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Eleanor was predeceased by her husband Fred in 1989; three brothers, Gordon, Henry, and Phil Hebb; four sisters, Marjorie Golmis, Grace Niemeier, Frances Morse, Marian Arris and Dolly Sanborn; and a son-in-law, Al Whitney. She is survived by three daughters and their spouses, Sarah and Dale Lord of Harrison, Judy Whitney of Veazie, Martha and Richard Van Steenburgh of Hudson, Mass.; and one son and his partner, Mark Stearns and Robin Adams of Albany; as well as seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
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A celebration of her life and faith will be held at 11 am., Saturday, Aug. 25, at the Congregational church in North Waterford. Arrangements are made with Wood Funeral Home, Fryeburg.
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