VINALHAVEN — Lois Fay Day, 65, died Sept. 20, 2016, at the Sussman House in Rockport. Born in Gloucester, Mass., she was the daughter of Roy B. and Mary (Sweet) Peavey and was a graduate of Gloucester High School.

On Jan. 20, 1998, she met her soulmate, Walter Day, and they moved to Vinalhaven, his home town, where they started a lobster business fishing aboard the F/V Night Moves.

In recent years, Lois enjoyed Vinalhaven Eldercare, where she worked at the Ivan Calderwood Homestead as a caregiver. She also was a licensed massage therapist. Lois had taught her two grandsons how to lobster from a small boat powered with an outboard motor. She loved working in her many gardens.

Surviving is her husband, Walter Day of Vinalhaven; two daughters, Christine Mondello and Tony-Lee Mondello, both of Rockland; her stepchildren, Jason A. (Sheri) Day of Vinalhaven and Jada (Mark) Bottiglieri of Texas, and Avery (Sarah) Day of Yarmouth; her sisters, Deborah Peavey and Nancy Peavey; her brothers, Roy B. Peavey and Don (Leslie) Peavey; her mother-in-law, Ethelyn Day; her aunt, Nina Sweet; her grandchildren, Justin and Jacob Mondello, Alexander, Gabriel, Barbara and Henley Day, and Marina, Matthew, James, Andrew and Dominic Bottiglieri; as well as many nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her parents; a sister, Mary Jane Nelson; her brother, Robert Peavey; her father-in-law, Henley Day; and her brother-in-law, Douglas Day.

Services will be held in Gloucester, Mass., at the convenience of the family.

Memorial gifts may be made in her memory to the Union Church; Vinalhaven Ambulance; or to Vinalhaven Eldercare.

Arrangements are with Long Funeral Home & Cremation Service.