Dorothy Eva Leighton

Cherryfield - Dorothy Eva (Parker) Leighton, 95, passed to the afterlife on May 3rd, at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital, following a brief illness. Born March 25, 1920, she was the daughter of Hoyt and Cora (Tracy) Parker. She was predeceased by husband Alton M. (“Brud”) Leighton, Sr., and her brothers and sisters, Kenneth, Hoyt, Laura, Buddy, Berneta, and Marguerite.

Dot was part of the first generation of women to join the armed forces, as a WAVE, in the Navy, during World War II. She was also a lifetime member of the Osceola Grange and the First Baptist Church of Cherryfield. She worked with pride and dignity in many jobs over the course of her lifetime, as house-keeper, maid, textile worker, raking blueberries, packing sardines, and making thousands of Christmas wreaths.

Her greatest adventure was her time in the Navy at Farragut, Idaho, and in San Diego, California; and her worst tragedy was the death of her infant son Walter. Dot’s lifetime best friend was the late Elizabeth Driscoll, with whom she took many walks on the Spragues Falls Road, Cherryfield. To her family, she made the best baked beans in all of Washington County; she loved dogs and was a loving companion to them. She enjoyed her life to the fullest, and possessed both an abundance of perseverance and a great sense of humor, which carried her through the best and worst of times.

She is survived by daughter Marian Leighton Levy of Newburyport, Mass. And her son A.J.; son Alton (“Buddy”) Leighton, Jr. of Grants Pass, Oregon and sons Alex and Eric; son Stanley Leighton of Cherryfield; and daughter Virginia Blake and husband Ollie of Lubec; as well as numerous nieces and nephews including, Neila McIntyre, Gloria Augustine, Jimmy Parker, and Patty Parker

A graveside service will be held in June at the Pine Grove Cemetery in Cherryfield and will be announced at a later date. Arrangements by Mays Funeral Home, Calais & Eastport.

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