She was born in Dexter on June 26, 1919, a daughter of Stephen and Mary (Higgins) Ambrose. She was a graduate of New Hampshire Fay High School, Class of 1937. She also attended the University of Maine at Orono.
Anita was a homemaker who enjoyed raising her six children. She was employed by H.L. Tillson & Company in Dexter for 10 years. In 1992, she moved to Old Orchard Beach. In 2008, she moved to Wardwell in Saco where she passed.
She was a volunteer for the Dyer Library in Saco for 10 years.
Her hobbies included oil painting and writing. She wrote many short stories which were later published in 2007 called “Growing Up in Dexter, Maine, Memoires by Anita Savage.”
Mrs. Savage was a parishioner of St. Margaret Church.
She was preceded in death by: her husband Earl R. Savage on Sept. 26, 1970, one son, Robert, on Nov. 7, 2013 and by five siblings Arthur, Thomas, Nelson, Julian and Irene Gilbert.
She is survived by: one son, Richard Savage, of Beacon, New York, and four daughters, Bonnie Hartford and her husband David, of Otisfield, Dona Griffin and her husband Richard, of Rochester, Vermont, Mary Ellen Connell and her husband Kerry, of Yarmouth and Judy Savage of Scarborough.
She is also survived by nine grandchildren, Anthony, Dane, Monique, Sarah, Emily, Ian, Eliza, Andrew and Rachel and by seven great grandchildren Krysta, Kekai and Adah, Noah, Finn, Isabella and Grace and by one niece, Nancy.
A Funeral Mass will be held at St. Anne Church in Dexter and the burial in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Dexter, time to be announced.
To view Anita’s memorial page or leave an online condolence, please visit cotefuneralhome.com
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