Althea Wynifred (Walton) Fish (1918 - 2009)

Born 26 Sep 1918 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Alton Cameron Fish — married 31 Jul 1937 (to about 1987) in Old Orchard Beach, York, Maine, United States

Descendants

Died 26 Mar 2009 at age 90 in Rumford, Oxford, Maine, United States

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Biography

Althea (Walton) Fish is a member of Clan Douglas.

Althea (Walton) Fish is a member of Clan MacBean.

Althea was born in 1918 in Dixfield, Maine in the same house at 37 Main Street, Dixfield where she lived at the time of her death 90.5 years later. She was a stay-at-home mom until the last two of her children were in high school when she became a librarian aide at Dirigo High School in Dixfield, Maine. In 1969 she began as the substitute librarian at Ludden Memorial Library, Dixfield, where she worked until age 72.

Althea was an accomplished pianist, performing musical duties for the Grange, Senior Citizens, and various churches. A life-long member of the Grange, she had her first garden at age 5 when her grandfather Will Holman helped her start her first garden. She reached her goal of 85 years of consecutive gardens harvested as she turned 90. She gave a great deal of thought in her late 80's, consulting leading authorities, before deciding to plant peach and apple trees that bear fruit after 3 years rather than five years. She selected the 3 year varieties that bore the first crop her last fall.

Althea spent her early years living in her grandparents Will and Winnie Holman's house, then lived near her grandparents Greenleaf Melville and Eliza Small Bean Walton apple farm in East Dixfield where her father worked. Upon his death in 1934, she went back to live with Will S. and Nettie Holman in Dixfield where she helped her grandmother with phone operator duties operating the telephone switchboard located in their front room.

Althea's special place was at the Edgewater Colony in Harpswell, Maine where her grandparents had a cottage. She told of celebrating Christmas there with her maternal grandparents at an early age and of swimming in the ocean on Christmas Day, running back to the car to be wrapped in bear skin rugs.

• Fact: Residence (1920) Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States
• Fact: Residence (1930) Wilton, Franklin, Maine, United States
• Fact: Residence (1935) Same Place
• Fact: Residence (1940) Dixfield Town, Oxford, Maine, United States
• Fact: Burial (May 2009) Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States

Sources

• "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24J-64V8 : 13 March 2018), Althea Wynifred, Birth 26 Sep 1918; multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm 10,206.

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFZ1-JP6 : accessed 2 July 2020), Althea W Walton in household of Ralph E Walton, Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States; citing ED 111, sheet 2B, line 88, family 49, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 647; FHL microfilm 1,820,647

• "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCNL-PW2 : 27 November 2014), Cameron A Fish and Althea W Walton, 31 Jul 1937; citing Marriage, Maine, United States, State Archives, Augusta

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMMV-BT3 : 27 July 2019), Althea Fish in household of Cameron Fish, Dixfield Town, Oxford, Maine, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 9-15, sheet 2A, line 6, family 28, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1484

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG2-BV3Y : 11 July 2016), Althea Walton Fish, 2009; Burial, Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States of America, Riverside Cemetery; citing record ID 122007649, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 14 May 2018, 04:39), entry for Althea Wynifred Walton(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:9KPJ-DVL); contributed by various use