- Date Of Birth: October 30, 1913
- Date Of Death: January 29, 2011
- State: Maine
Olive McKay Wright, 97, of Pemaquid Harbor, passed away peacefully in her own home on January 29th 2011. She was born on October 30th 1913, in Edgecomb, ME to Earnest McKay and Pearl Philbrick. She grew up Olive Hilda McKay, on McKay Road in an archetypal farm family, treasuring the simple pleasures of life. She helped rear the younger siblings and pulled her weight with chores on the farm, as we all did in the family – without complaint as it was indeed the way of life and expected. She attended grammar school in a little one-room schoolhouse which is now the red building that faces Route 27 in Edgecomb which was restored by Edgecomb Pottery. She graduated from Lincoln Academy in the class of 1931. She attended St. Andrew’s Hospital school for nurses from July 16th 1934 to 1936, and graduated with her highest marks in Obstetrics at 100% according to the letter dated July 19th 1937 by Sup’t Lillian Lawrence. Olive worked at St. Andrew’s and the hospital in Damariscotta for several years. She also cared for, and helped rear, several children on Pemaquid Harbor Road, where she lived for over 70 years, and was the Post Mistress in Pemaquid Harbor for 27 years at her retirement.
