The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Town Documents Maine Government Documents 2009 Town of Scarborough Annual Report 2009 Scarborough (Me.) Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/towndocs Repository Citation Scarborough (Me.), "Town of Scarborough Annual Report 2009" (2009). Maine Town Documents. 923. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/towndocs/923 This Report is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Town Documents by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Town of Scarborough Annual Report 2009 In Memory of Blanche M. Cook Scarborough’s oldest resident at 107 and longtime holder of the Boston Post Cane, died on June 7, 2009. Blanche was born on October 13, 1901, in Nashua, New Hampshire. She was the daughter of Joseph & Lillian (Blackstone) Small. The oldest of five children. Mrs. Cook grew up in the Pownal, Maine area until the age of 16. She then moved to Portland. There she lived with an Aunt and worked as a waitress at the Willows Hotel in Prouts Neck of Scarborough. She also worked at Haven’s Candy Kitchen in Portland where she learned to dip chocolate. She married John Cook (of South Portland) on January 18, 1928, in Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire. They had one daughter, Lorraine. The family lived in South Portland until 1947 when they move to their new home on Westwood Avenue in Scarborough. Once their daughter was older Mrs. Cook went to work for Len Libby’s and later on at Libby’s Candies, both of Scarborough, again dipping chocolate.