SEDGWICK – Ivadel Chatto Gray, 86, passed away at Blue Hill Memorial Hospital on May 12, 2016, after suffering with dementia for the past few years. She was born in Sedgwick to Pearla Chatto on July 17, 1929.
She trained to be an RN at the nursing school at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. After graduation, she went to work at Castine Hospital, working as a floor nurse and a medical surgery nurse working under Dr. Babcock and Dr. Russell. After the closing of the hospital, she went to work at Penobscot Nursing Home, retiring in the early 1990s.
Her other passion after nursing was music. She enjoyed playing piano and was playing for the staff and residents of the Northern Bay Residential Center in Penobscot and the Island Nursing Home in Deer Isle, where she spent her final years.
She was predeceased by her mother in 1968; by her husband, Roderick, in 2012, whom she married in 1965. Survivors include her two daughters, Kris Gray of Sedgwick and Lynn and her husband, Steven Ginn, of Sedgwick. Sister Patricia and her husband, Lloyd Bridges, of Verona Island. Nieces Cheryl and her husband, Charlie Grindle, of Verona Island; Marie and her husband, Emery Deabay, of Bucksport; and Pearla and her husband, Johnny Phillips, of Epping, N.H. She is also survived by numerous cousins and grandnieces and grandnephews.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the capital campaign at Island Nursing Home, Deer Isle or the residents fund at Northern Bay Residential Center, Penobscot.
A graveside service will be held 11 a.m., Saturday, May 28, at Camp Stream Cemetery, Graytown Road in Sedgwick, with the Rev. Ron Hutchins officiating. Everyone is invited to Lynn and Steve’s home afterward for a time of remembrance and refreshments.
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