Shaw, Edith Erma Grass Pike, 100, Presque Isle; at a local hospital, November 16, 2008. Funeral services will be conducted 1 p.m. Wednesday, November 19, 2008, at the Presque Isle Congregational Church, Presque Isle. Arrangements are in the care of Duncan-Graves Funeral Home, Presque Isle.
Presque Isle – Edith E. Shaw, 100, wife of the late Frank Shaw, died November 16, 2008, at a local hospital. She was born March 5, 1908, in South Hampton, New Brunswick, Canada, the daughter of Eldon and Grace (Stairs) Grass. 
Edith graduated from high school at the Normal School in Presque Isle, the Marcus Lucius Quinn Conservatory of Music in Boston in 1924, and the Aroostook School of Accounting in Stenography and Bookkeeping in 1926. She married George T. Pike in June of 1926, where they farmed in Ashland and ran a sporting camp at “Forks of Machias” for several years. Edith continued to operate the farm for several years after George’s death. Edith was a member of the Presque Isle Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, and was a past member of the Ashland Congregational Church, where she was the acting pastor at a time when the church was between pastors. She was the first leader of the Congregational IT (I’ll Try) Club and started the first Girl Scout Troop in Ashland, which she was the leader of for several years. Edith was a member of the Tillikum #99 Chapter of O.E.S in Ashland, and had been employed by the A.R. Gould Memorial Hospital and Weinburg’s in Presque Isle for many years. She enjoyed cooking, gardening, church activities, visiting with friends over a cup of tea, music, laughing, telling stories and sharing words of advice.
Besides her parents and her first husband, George Pike in 1951, Edith was predeceased by a son Clair in 1936; her second husband, Frank Shaw in 1988; and brothers Donald and Harold Grass. She is survived by a son George Pike and his wife Laura of Ashland; three daughters, Evelyn Petosa of Bristol, CT, Joyce Federer and her husband Ray of Seattle, Washington and Arlene Davenport, of Bethesda, MD; sisters Velma MacDonald of Ocala, FL, Cora Brown of Westbrook and Euda Bragdon of Laurel, DL; several grandchildren, great- grandchildren, great-great- grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
Relatives and friends called at the Duncan-Graves Funeral Home, 30 Church St., Presque Isle, from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, where Eastern Star services were conducted at 6:30. Funeral services will be conducted 1 p.m. Wednesday, at the Presque Isle Congregational Church, 29 Church St., with the Rev. Dr. Robert Grove-Markwood officiating. Interment was in the Ashland Municipal Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please make donations, in her memory, to the church, or to the charity of your choice. Arrangements are in the care of Duncan-Graves Funeral Home. Condolences may be expressed at www.duncan-graves.com.
