Louise T. Berry

Berry, Louise T., 82, May 1, 2008.  Arrangements by Bowers Funeral Home, Houlton.
    ISLAND FALLS – Louise T. Berry, 82, passed away on May 1, 2008, at Houlton Regional Hospital. She was born June 7, 1925, in Livermore at the family homestead, the first born of the 5th generation. She is the daughter of Leslie E. and Thelma (Coolidge) Boothby.
    She graduated from the Leavitt Institute in 1942, and also from the Maine School of Commerce in Auburn. She married N. Robert Berry on Sunday, October 17, 1943. They moved to Island Falls in 1969 where they established Berry & Webb Milk Transport with Jack and Norma Webb.
    Louise was a member and past president of King Mitchell VFW Auxiliary Post 7529, a member of the Whittier Congregational Church where she was Treasurer for many years. She attended Women’s Fellowship and was a member of the Katahdin Club. Louise was a member of the SACS school board and served on the board of the Katahdin Public Library for many years.
    She is survived by five children: Roberta Brooks, Steven Berry and wife Donna, George and friend Eleanor Grant, Cora Batchelder and husband Floyd, and Carla Conrad and husband Lewis, all of Island Falls. She is also survived by her sister, Edith Damon of Turner, brother, Robert Boothby and wife Betty of Wayne and sister-in-law, Norma Boothby of Livermore. Also surviving are seventeen grandchildren; thirty-two great- grandchildren; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Louise was predeceased by her parents; her husband, N. Robert Berry; a daughter, Ramona Berry; a son, Norman L. Berry; a brother, Leslie Boothby; great-grandson, Kaleb Higgins; and son-in-law, Raymond Brooks Sr.
    Friends called Sunday, May 4, 2008, from 6-8 p.m. at Bowers Funeral Home, Sherman Street, Island Falls. Funeral services were held 9 a.m. Monday at the Whittier Congregational Church. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Katahdin Public Library or the Whittier Congregational Church, c/o Bowers Funeral Home, P.O. Box 579, Houlton, ME 04730.