Mildred Stafford, 97, passed peacefully away December 16, 2019 at Windship Gardens in Bath, Maine, with her family by her side.

Born in Derby, Connecticut on January 7, 1922. She was the daughter of Earl H. and Ruth Hildebrandt Baldwin of Ansonia, Connecticut.

When she was three she moved to Nobleboro, Maine, with her parents to a farm on East Pond Road. She attended Emerson School the one room school house on the Upper East Pond Road and was a 1940 graduate of Lincoln Academy. She worked at Miles Memorial Hospital when it was still on Church Street in Damariscotta. And helped move to it’s present location on Hospital Point.

She met the love of her life George Stafford in 1942 at a dance hall on Clary Hill in Jefferson. They were married January 19, 1943. She loved dancing which they continued for the rest of their lives.

She was an avid hunting and fishing enthusiast and bagged many deer and ducks all over the region quite often the first in the hunting party to do so.

Milly served on the conservation committee  school board, long range planning committee, and was the town Historian. The Arrowsic 2001 annual town report was dedicated to George and her.

She was secretary of the town fire department and kept copious ledgers of all the calls.

She could be seen stuffing the wet and dirty hoses in the back of her car after a fire which she took home to clean and lay on her lawn to dry, ready for the next call.

In 2019 she had a new fire truck christened with her name on the door.

Milly is survived by her son Leeman of Nobleboro, two grandsons, Tim of Troy, Ohio, and Terry, of Nobleboro; a granddaughter, Tina, of Long Beach, California; two great grandchildren, Dereck, of Red Bluff, California, and Alexander and his wife, Alexis, of Dayton , Ohio; two great-great grandchildren, Alexander and Amaya also of Dayton, Ohio; brothers Paul and Bob of Nobleboro, and Doug of Woolwich; sister Jean, of Haines City, Florida; and many in laws, nieces , nephews and many friends.

Hall’s of Waldoboro has care of the arrangements. To extend  online condolences visit hallfuneralhomes.com