UNION — Dolores Ann ‘Dee’ Demuth, 66, passed away at the Togus Springs Veterans Hospital in Augusta on Saturday, May 4, 2019 from complications of cardiac arrest.

Born October 15, 1952 in Omaha, Nebraska, Dolores was adopted at the age of three by Paul and Bernice Kriegler. She attended Catholic School in Omaha until the eighth grade when her family moved to Chicago where she graduated from a local high school.

After graduating from high school Dee attended secretarial school for one year before enlisting with the U.S. Army. After basic training she was stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina where she met her soon-to-be husband, Craig, who was stationed at Shaw Air Force Base, in Sumter, South Carolina. After their honorable military discharges, they moved to Maine where they were married on June 7, 1980, at Saint Denis Catholic Church in North Whitefield.

After their many years of service Dee and Craig decided to settle down in Union. She wore many hats over the years working for MBNA, the Town of Camden, Knox County Sheriffs Department, St. Dennis Catholic Church, finally finishing her working career at Merry Gardens Estates.

Other than her parents Dolores was predeceased by her brother Paul Kriegler Jr. and her sister Kathy Kriegler.

She survived by her husband Craig of Union; her birth mother Margarita Leach of Wake Forrest NC; four sisters, Rose of Post Falls, ID, Marcy of Nucla, CO, Liz of Van Horn, IA, Leorita of Spokane, WA; two brothers, Jim of Boulder, CO, and Fred  of Youngsville, NC.

Family and friends are invited to visit Wednesday, May 15, from 5 to 7 p.m., at Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home, 110 Limerock Street, Rockland.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Thursday, May 16, at 1 p.m., at St. Bernard’s Catholic Church, 150 Broadway, Rockland. The Reverend Robert Vaillancourt will officiate.

Interment will follow at Pine Grove Cemetery, Appleton, Maine.

To share a memory or condolence with Dee’s family, visit their Book of Memories at www.bchfh.com.