Emma Jane (Shorey) Grant, 90, passed away September 24, 2021 in Bangor. Despite taking every precaution, Emma was taken from us after a courageous battle against COVID-19. She was born on February 27, 1931, in Dover-Foxcroft to Alton and Doris (Steward) Shorey.
Whittling a quietly amazing life down to a few lines is tough. Emma attended school in Dover-Foxcroft and Washington, D.C., married young, and travelled extensively with her Air Force officer husband, Lt. Col. Ralph Grant, and their children before settling in the home they built in Hampden. Education was very important to Emma, and she attended classes on and off while raising four children, completing a Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education and a Master’s in Special Education, both from the University of Maine, in her fifties. Emma also served as treasurer of the Bangor Nature Club for many years and was an avid bridge player, meeting with friends weekly to play.
Strong-willed to a fault with a great sense of humor, there was nothing Emma wouldn’t do for her family, particularly the grandchildren who were the light of her life and who each wore the same elaborate clown costume as a toddler sewn by her own skilled hands. Emma loved to swim, so Ralph built her an adorable A-frame in Tim’s Cove on Sebec Lake where she spent her summers impressing her children and grandchildren with her freestyle, swimming in far deeper water than they’d ever dare.
Emma was a pianist and an organist, originally majoring in music at the University of Hawaii, and she secretly loved to sing, although she was shy. She loved to garden and maintained beautiful flower gardens at both her home and camp. A knitting and baking enthusiast, she provided an endless supply of mittens and raspberry muffins. Until her last days Emma was a voracious reader and had dreams of revisiting the world travels of her youth.
Emma was predeceased by her husband of 55 years, Ralph; her parents; her brother, Stewart and her sister, Mary. She is survived by her son Stephen Grant; daughters, Eileen Stubbs and her husband, James of Brewer; Priscilla Lefebvre of Brewer; and Elizabeth Wooster and her husband, Joe of Winterport; her nine grandchildren, Jason and his wife, Karen, Andrew, Jennifer, Carrie Anne, Ryan, Amy, Timothy and his wife, Alexis, Jasmine and her husband, Matt and Chloe; step-grandson James and his wife, Amy; six great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
The family will mourn their beloved matriarch, who’s now enjoying her own endless supply of chocolate cupcakes, in a private gathering following a burial with her devoted husband at 1:00 PM, Tuesday, October 5, 2021, in Central Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery, 163 Mount Vernon Rd., Augusta. Donations may be made in lieu of flowers to the World Wildlife Fund at worldwildlife.org.
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Whittling a quietly amazing life down to a few lines is tough. Emma attended school in Dover-Foxcroft and Washington, D.C., married young, and travelled extensively with her Air Force officer husband, Lt. Col. Ralph Grant, and their children before settling in the home they built in Hampden. Education was very important to Emma, and she attended classes on and off while raising four children, completing a Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education and a Master’s in Special Education, both from the University of Maine, in her fifties. Emma also served as treasurer of the Bangor Nature Club for many years and was an avid bridge player, meeting with friends weekly to play.
Strong-willed to a fault with a great sense of humor, there was nothing Emma wouldn’t do for her family, particularly the grandchildren who were the light of her life and who each wore the same elaborate clown costume as a toddler sewn by her own skilled hands. Emma loved to swim, so Ralph built her an adorable A-frame in Tim’s Cove on Sebec Lake where she spent her summers impressing her children and grandchildren with her freestyle, swimming in far deeper water than they’d ever dare.
Emma was a pianist and an organist, originally majoring in music at the University of Hawaii, and she secretly loved to sing, although she was shy. She loved to garden and maintained beautiful flower gardens at both her home and camp. A knitting and baking enthusiast, she provided an endless supply of mittens and raspberry muffins. Until her last days Emma was a voracious reader and had dreams of revisiting the world travels of her youth.
Emma was predeceased by her husband of 55 years, Ralph; her parents; her brother, Stewart and her sister, Mary. She is survived by her son Stephen Grant; daughters, Eileen Stubbs and her husband, James of Brewer; Priscilla Lefebvre of Brewer; and Elizabeth Wooster and her husband, Joe of Winterport; her nine grandchildren, Jason and his wife, Karen, Andrew, Jennifer, Carrie Anne, Ryan, Amy, Timothy and his wife, Alexis, Jasmine and her husband, Matt and Chloe; step-grandson James and his wife, Amy; six great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
The family will mourn their beloved matriarch, who’s now enjoying her own endless supply of chocolate cupcakes, in a private gathering following a burial with her devoted husband at 1:00 PM, Tuesday, October 5, 2021, in Central Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery, 163 Mount Vernon Rd., Augusta. Donations may be made in lieu of flowers to the World Wildlife Fund at worldwildlife.org.
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