Essie Marion Billings

1908 - 2008  (100 years)

• Name	Essie Marion Billings  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	4 Jan 1908	Little Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine   [1, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	6 Feb 2008	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine   [2, 4, 5]
  Burial	Gray's Hill Cemetery, Eggemoggin, Little Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine   [4]
  Person ID	I31032	Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmell Magna (1490-1542)
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	Arthur Herbert Billings,   b. 29 Mar 1883, Maine d. 8 Apr 1962, Stonington, Hancock, Maine (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Myrtle Emma Howard,   b. 7 Dec 1889, Castine, Hancock, Maine d. 6 Apr 1927 (Age 37 years)
  Intentions	21 Jul 1906	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine   [1]
  Marriage	Aft 21 Jul 1906  [1]
  Family ID	F16742	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Benjamin Franklin Haskell,   b. 11 Aug 1904, Little Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine d. 31 Jan 1971, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine (Age 66 years)
  Intentions	6 Jun 1928	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine   [1]
  Marriage	11 Jun 1928	Warren, Knox, Maine   [1, 6]
  Children	1. Milton Arthur Haskell,   b. 24 Nov 1928, Rockland, Knox, Maine d. Yes, date unknown   2. Geraldine Elva Haskell,   b. 17 Aug 1930, Stonington, Hancock, Maine d. 28 Apr 2015, Bar Harbor, Hancock, Maine (Age 84 years)   3. Franklin Benjamin Haskell, Sr.,   b. 26 Oct 1933, Little Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine d. Aft 1984 (Age 51 years)   4. Douglas P. Haskell,   b. 6 Mar 1943, Maine d. 2020 (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F15947	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2017

  
  

• Notes

  Bangor Daily News February 9, 2008 DEER ISLE - Essie Haskell died Feb. 6, 2008, at Island Nursing Home. She was born Jan. 4, 1908, in Little Deer Isle, the daughter of Arthur and Myrtie (Howard) Billings. She attended Eggemoggin School, Little Deer Isle. In 1928 she married Benjamin F. "Bennie" Haskell. They made their first home in Rockland. Later they made their permanent home in Little Deer Isle. She was a member of R.L.D.S. Church, Community of Christ, and served as organist, choir member and Sunday school teacher. She worked for several years for Stonington Packing Co. Essie is survived by her sons, Milton and wife, Priscilla, of Deer Isle, Franklin and wife, Pauline, and Douglas and wife, Linda, of Little Deer Isle; daughter, Geraldine and husband, Theodore Turner, of Swans Island; and stepdaughter, Shirley Carville of Little Deer Isle. She leaves a sister, Jeanette Mitchell; sister-in-law, Lenora Billings; six grandchildren, two stepgrandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, two great-stepgrandchildren and 6 great-great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband in 1971; by sisters, Ramona Eaton, Sabrina Sellers, Alice Varisco and Rhoda Carter; brothers, Eugene Billings and Galen Billings; and grandchildren, Maryann Haskell and Franklin Haskell Jr.

  
  

• Sources

  [S8594] Birth, intention of marriage, marriage, and death records of the Town of Deer Isle, Maine, 1758-1940. Original records of. [S53585] SSDI: Social Security Death Index. [S27151] Family records and notes courtesy of Carroll Madison Haskell 2009. [S9472] Cemetery index, Gray's Hill Cemetery, Eggemoggin, Little Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~medeeris/Deer_Isle/Cemetery_links.html). [S35739] Obituary, Bangor Daily News, Essie Haskell. [S27830] Maine Marriages 1892-1996.