Marilyn Allen Blanchard

BANGOR – Marilyn Allen Blanchard, 76, of Bangor, Maine, died on April 15, 2022, at Northern Light EMMC after a long fight with lung cancer and COPD. She was born June 20, 1944, in Augusta, Maine, to Arlene Tripp Allen and Alfred E. Allen. She graduated from Cony High School in 1963 and married her high school sweetheart and first husband, P. Thomas Baker, and had three children; Susan, Jennifer, and Ruth. After they divorced, Marilyn married Robert A. Blanchard, where she became both his stern man on the Sea-Smoke and lifelong companion. She is an Eastern Star and previous business owner of T&M Teen Center, she was also an entrepreneur, a shopping aficionado, loved playing bingo, and gambling at the casino. She is survived by her husband, Robert A. Blanchard; her three children; Susan J. Christianson, her husband, Joseph and their children; Hannah, Allen, and Katie; Jennifer M. Brackett, her spouse, Richard Sr. and their children: Brandie, Richard Jr, and Evan; Ruth A. Reynolds, her spouse, Craig, and their children: Bryon and Taylor; her two step children: Kathryn Young and Robert H. Blanchard and their families; fourteen great grandchildren; her sister, Jean C. Greenleaf and her two children; her sister in-law; Beverly Allen and her three sons. She was predeceased by her first husband, P. Thomas Baker, her parents, Alfred and Arlene Allen, and brother and sister, Barbara Young and William Allen.Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, April 22, 2022, at Brookings-Smith, 133 Center Street, Bangor, with a private burial at a later time. Condolences to the family may be expressed at http://www.BrookingsSmith.com.