Carolyn and Stanley Peterson, Jr.


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Carolyn Rose Johnson Peterson
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Stanley Farley Peterson, Jr.

Their’s was a love story from the beginning to the end.  After 66 years of marriage, Stanley Farley Peterson, Jr. and his wife Carolyn Rose Johnson Peterson, journeyed together to heaven.  Carolyn passed on April 28th and Stanley followed on April 30th.   2017.  They married on June 1st, 1952 and raised their five children in Westbrook, Maine.


Carolyn Rose Johnson was born and raised on Long Island, in Casco Bay, to George E. Johnson and Lillian MacVane Johnson.~

She graduated from Portland High School in 1950 and went to work in a bank.

Although Carolyn worked briefly outside the home, she spent her life as an amazing homemaker.  She was a talented seamstress who made clothes for her children, quilts for her grandchildren, wedding dresses, prom dresses, and christening and confirmation gowns.  She also made outfits for her girls with matching doll clothes.

Besides raising her children and participating in their activities, Carolyn was trained as one of the first literacy volunteers and was active in the Westbrook Women’s Club.

Carolyn loved being by the water.  She spent hours around the family pool enjoying the sun and playing scrabble with her daughters.  She also loved playing in the ocean waves.

Carolyn was an avid reader and she passed her love of reading onto her children.  She also loved playing Bingo, wallpapering, redecorating, the wind and rain, but most of all, she loved the ocean.
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Stanley Farley Peterson, Jr. was born on October 8th, 1929 to Elizabeth Train Peterson and Stanley Farley Peterson, Sr.

Stanley graduated from Westbrook High School where he played basketball.  He was nominated and became Mr. Basketball his senior year.  He thinks that people nominated him so that they could see him blush, as he never enjoyed being in the limelight.  

Stanley met Carolyn on Long Island, Maine at a beach party where he asked her on a date.  She knew he was a keeper when on their first date he waited outside of her work at the bank for five hours because she was off by one penny on her balance sheet.

He was in the Navy Reserves for three years before they called him up to serve as Machinist on the USS Fiske Destroyer 842.

Stanley worked at S. D. Warren Paper mill for 44 years. He started as a “spare” and ended as a Superintendent in the material-handling department.

In his younger years, he loved fishing for stripers, hunting, coaching Little League and bowling.  Later in life, his favorite activity was meeting friends for coffee.
Together they loved going to garage sales and sitting at the Eastern Promenade watching the ships come in and gazing at the islands in Casco Bay.

Stanley and Carolyn are survived by their children, Jean Martin of Casco, Sandra Fournier and her partner Ron of Gorham, John Peterson and his wife Vivian of New Bern, North Carolina, Amy Peterson-Roper and her husband Robert of Ellsworth, and Andrew Peterson and his wife Marsha of Casco.

They are also survived by thirteen grandchildren: Louis, Elizabeth, Kevin, Rachael, Eric, Amanda, Mikey, Matty, Sarah, Jeremiah, Ashley, Roxanne and AJ, as well as nine great-grandchildren whom they loved very much.  Carolyn is survived by her sister, Sylvia Horr, of Missouri.  Stanley is survived by his brother, Ronald Peterson of Florida. They are also survived by and many nieces, nephews, and friends as well as Laurette Ng of Alaska, mother of 3 of their grandchildren.

Their parents, four siblings and their first grandchild John Peterson, Jr. predeceased both.

The family would like to thank Hospice of Southern Maine, the care they received from Comfort Keepers and the Gosnell House of Scarborough for their loving care for both parents as well their immediate family at the end of their lives.  Donations to the Gosnell House, in their memory, are greatly appreciated.


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