BATH — Doris Hunter Cox, 87, formerly of Harpswell, died Sunday, June 16, 2013, at Winship Green Nursing Facilities, Bath, due to her increasing dementia.

She was born in Augusta on February 14, 1926, the daughter of Victor and Edna Brewer McCourtney. She attended Augusta schools and graduated from Cony High School in 1944. She was employed as a telephone operator until she started a family. She married David Hunter in 1945. They owned and operated Hunter’s Market in Augusta and then she became a minister’s wife following him to Stockton Springs, Oakland and then to South Harpswell.

Mrs. Cox owned and operated Needle Mania on Maine Street, Brunswick. After retirement, they moved to Augusta. Rev. Hunter died in January 1996. She married Ronald Cox in 2006 and returned to the Brunswick area. She enjoyed her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, but as her memory faded she only remembered her 1st great-great-grandchild.

She is survived by a daughter, Betty McCausland and her husband, Lloyd of Brunswick; grandchildren, David McCausland of Lisbon and Heidi Lewis of Kansas; great-grandchildren, Ashleigh Brumet and Joey Lewis of Kansas; great-great-grandchildren, Jaxon, Kayleigh and Greyson Brumet and Makaela Lewis of Kansas and a sister, Bettie Ayer of Portland.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 27 at the Elijah Kellogg Church, Harpswell Center, with the Rev. John Carson officiating. Interment will be at 11 a.m. Friday, June 21 in Forest Grove Cemetery, Winthrop Street, Augusta. Memorial contributions may be made to Elijah Kellogg Church Maintenance Fund, 917 Harpswell Neck Road, Harpswell, ME 04079.

For those unable to attend, condolences to the family may be made at www.brackettfuneralhome.com.