Ava Maude Bailey

   FamilySearch ID: LVDK-1M4. Find a Grave ID: 12147447.

  Events

• Census, 24 Jan 1920, Knox, ME. ¹

• Graduation: Did Not Graduate, 1928.
Ava completed 1 year of high school.

• Census, 7 Apr 1930, Knox, ME. ²
Ava's mother had remarried and she was listed as "Ava Warman".

• Census, 17 Apr 1940, Belfast, ME.

• Death of Spouse: Harold Alfred Towers, 12 Jan 1943, Brunswick, ME.
Harold suffered critical injuries as the result of a motor vehicle accident and died in the hospital the same day.

• Census, 1 Apr 1950, Belfast, ME. ³
Ava's future husband, Elbridge Cunningham, was renting a room from her.

• Death of Child: Mildred Elizabeth (Towers) Gott, 5 Mar 1986, Bridgewater, MA.

• Obituary: Bangor Daily News, 2 Aug 2005, Bangor, ME.
BELFAST -- Ava (Towers) Cunningham, 92, died Aug. 20, 2005, in Belfast. She was born n Liberty, Jan. 7, 1913, the daughter of Fred and Estella (Howes) Bailey. She was a member of the Equity Grange.
She was predeceased by two husbands, Harold Towers and Elbridge Cunningham; and a daughter, Mildred Gott. She is survived by a son, Robert Towers of Chelsea; three daughters, Vera Warren of Belfast, Margaret Kinney of Gardiner, and Flora Towers of Bucksport; 15 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren; a brother, Freddie Bailey of of Knox; a sister, Sadie Ward of Searsport; and a half-sister, Laura Higgins of Albion.
Friends may call noon-1 p.m. Monday, Aug. 22, at the Crabiel-Riposta Funeral Home, 182 Waldo Ave., Belfast, where funeral services will be held 1 p.m. with David Abbott officiating. Interment will follow at the Grove Cemetery, Belfast. Friends may make memorial donations to the Waldo County General Hospital General Fund.

Ava had a relationship with Herman Beecher Raven, son of Reverend John Edward Raven and Rose Ann Farley. (Herman Beecher Raven was born on 18 Feb 1906 in Wade, ME,⁴ died on 9 Nov 1970 in Fairfield, ME and was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Albion, ME.)