FAIRFIELD – On Dec. 6, 2021, Mark Edward McPheters passed away peacefully at the age of 90.

Mark was born Jan. 8, 1931 in Waterville, to Carroll and Gertrude McPheters. Mark attended and graduated from Lawrence High School in Fairfield. He served in the U.S. Army and in the Korean War. In 1955 he married Roberta “Bobbie” Dunn and they were married for 62 years.

Mark was the owner of McPheters Garage, a landmark in downtown Fairfield for many years. Mark was a member of the Freemasons and The Shriners as well as the Clinton Lions Club and the Waterville Chess Club. His passion late in life was for the Fairfield Historical Society and the First Baptist Church in Waterville. If he wasn’t home cooking, gardening or reading you could find him lending a helping hand at the “history house” or at church.

The family would like to give a special thanks to the wonderful health care workers who cared for him at Lakewood Nursing Center and friends and neighbors who kept a watchful and caring eye on him over the years. A special thank you to Jeff King, Mark’s neighbor and family friend.

Mark was preceded in death by his wife Bobbie McPheters.

He is survived by his son, Mark McPheters II and his wife Lynn of Richmond, his daughter, Mary Scanlon and her husband Neil of Bethel; his sister-in-law, Mary Merrick and her husband Jimmy of Fairfield; and nieces Barbara Guimond and Lenette MacDonald and their families; his caring grandchildren Kaitlin Hilchey, Benjamin McPheters, Cody-Ann Scanlon and Cassidy Scanlon; and four great-grandchildren.

Mark had a love of books and art. He kept his most treasured books by author, poet Holman Day of Vassalboro by his side until his final days.



“Readin’ The Rug” by Holmer Day

Take a chair by the fireplace, mister. Pull up, s’r, pull up to the blaze!

Cheerfuler some than an air-tight, hey? Too many air-tights these days!

But that ain’t a matter to harp on–complainin’ isn’t my style:

Do you notice that rug where ye’re sittin? Let me tell ye ’bout that

for a while.

That’s an old hooked rug; just burlap with snippin’s o’ rags looped through-

A hit-or-miss pattern they call it; it looked pretty smart when t’was new.

Some fami’lies have his’ries about ’em an’ docyments filed away,

But ourn hain’t ever done nothin’ that his’rys can find to say,

Yet next to my Bible, mister, the readin’ I like the best

I find right there in that old hooked rug, when there’s ary a minit to rest.

I come an’s read it o’ daytimes, but the readin’ goes best at night

With the wind and the rain at the winder an’ the hearth flames burnins’ bright.



You are invited to offer your condolences and share fond memories with the family by visiting Mark’s guestbook at http://www.veilleuxfuneralhome.com.

Committal Services will be held at a future date in the spring at Pine Grove Cemetery in Waterville.

A Service of Veilleux and Redington Funeral Home, 8 Elm St., Waterville, ME 04901. 207-872-7676

In remembrance of Mark’s life, the family asks that any charitable donations be made to the

Fairfield Historical

Society,

42 High St,

Fairfield, Maine.



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