LAMOINE
Gladys Dawson Fiveland, of Lamoine, died Feb. 1, 2018, as a resident of the Sonogee Nursing Home in Bar Harbor, after a five-year battle with dementia.
Gladys was the daughter of John and Emma Dawson, born April 1, 1924, in the Spring Valley area of New York state. A short time after her birth, her father was transferred from the New York state office to the New Jersey office of the Railway Express Agency and was their route agent. John built a house in Livingston, N.J. Gladys started her education in the Livingston School System in kindergarten and finished in the eighth grade, going on to high school in West Orange, N.J. She graduated third from the top of her class in 1942.
Gladys worked as a secretary for the Beneficial Management Group in Newark, N.J. In 1946, she married Arthur Fiveland, a West Orange native.
After her marriage, she became the mother of twin sons, David Nicholi Fiveland and Andrew Karl Fiveland. A few years later, she had Eleanor Jean Fiveland. Gladys is buried in the family plot next to the Lamoine Baptist Church.