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CORNISH, ME - Olive Savard passed peacefully from this life at the Fryeburg Health Care Center on Feb. 2, 2005. She had reached her 86th birthday a few days earlier.
Olive Marguerite Guptill was born in West Baldwin on Jan. 25, 1919. She was preceded in death by her mother and father, Mabel Sawyer Guptill and William F. Guptill, and five brothers and sisters: Roland Guptill of West Baldwin; Lloyd Guptill, killed in action in the Philippines during World War II; Robert Guptill of West Baldwin; Evelyn Guptill Brooks of Kennebunkport; and Dorothy Guptill, also of West Baldwin.
Olive Guptill, the youngest member of her birth family, was born next to the 'Old Depot' in a house built by her grandfather, Charles Samuel Guptill, a section supervisor for the Maine Central Railroad. She was raised on the Guptill Farm in West Baldwin in one of the town's oldest dwellings, a farmhouse built in the early 1800's. She received her elementary education at the Pigeon Brook School, and graduated from Potter Academy in Sebago.
Following her graduation, she gained employment at the Jackson Falls House, a summer resort hotel in Jackson, N.H., where she met her future husband.
On Nov. 27, 1937, Olive Guptill was married to Maurice H. Savard at Our Lady of the Mountains Church in North Conway, N.H. During their 67 years of marital devotion, the couple lived and raised their family in New Hampshire, Maine, Arizona, and California, finally returning to Maine during their later years to become the proprietors of Cornish Antiques, one of the first of the many antique shops now operating in Cornish.
Olive Savard is survived by her husband, Maurice; a brother-in-law, Paul Savard of Presque Isle; five children, Lorna Savard Glendening of Cornish and Tucson, Ariz., Maurice Ian Savard of Burbank, Calif., Rodney Savard of Bellevue, Wash., Stephen Savard of Denniston, Ky., Susan Olive Savard of Cornish; 14 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchild- ren; and a multitude of other relatives and family friends.
Olive Guptill Savard-wife, mother, grandmother, dear friend, and gentle, loving soul-will live forever in the hearts of all who knew and loved her. She spent many quiet hours reading and contemplating her Bible, and was a gifted musician who played both classical music and popular standards while seated at the semi-circular keyboard of the black walnut electronic theater organ hand-built for her by her husband. The residents of Cornish will remember her customary afternoon walks-usually a few steps ahead of her husband.
Memorial services honoring her long and loving life will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 12, at the York Funeral Chapel in Cornish.
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