Ardis A. Mills

    Mills, Ardis A., 91, December 7, 2010.  Arrangements by Dunn Funeral Home, Houlton.
    HOULTON and NEWTON, MA – Ardis A. Mills, 91, died at home peacefully Dec. 7, 2010, with her family at her side, as she had devotedly been for so many of her own dear family, after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s.
    She was born Sept. 8, 1919, in Weston, Maine the daughter of Varney and Vera (Bubar) Brackett, where she grew up on her cherished family dairy farm overlooking Brackett Lake and the “Million Dollar View”. Ardis was an accomplished nurse, who learned her calling at various training hospitals around New England, but when her beloved husband Joel came home from WWII the inseparable couple returned to Maine, the only home they ever really knew. Ardis performed her nursing labor of love for many years right in Houlton, Maine then turned her nurturing instincts to raising her pride and joy, her only child Beverly. Ardis will be sorely missed and long remembered by her daughter, son-in-law, her extended family (many still on the family farm), and all who were blessed to know her.
    Friends called at the Dunn Funeral Home, 11 Park Street, Houlton, on Saturday 1:00 p.m. until the time of the service at 3:00 p.m. with Rev. Naomi Sam’Kpakra officiating.
    Gifts may be made in Ardis’ memory to the Alzheimer’s Association of Massachusetts, 311 Arsenal St., Watertown, MA 02472; and to Season’s Hospice, 275 Grove St., Suite 3-102, Newton, MA 02466. Season’s was incredibly comforting in Ardis’ last days.
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