Emerson C. Fleury

AUGUSTA – Mr. Emerson C. Fleury passed away peacefully on Jan. 18, 2026, at the Maine Veterans Home in Augusta with family and friends by his side. He was born in Mexico, on Dec. 18, 1931, the son of Ilma and Charlie Fleury of Mexico. He graduated from Mexico High School in 1950 where he played basketball, football and ran track. He worked at the Rumford Paper Mill for a short while before enlisting in the United States Air Force where he served from 1952-1956 during the Korean War Conflict as a Radio Repairman for 9th Radio Relay Squadron and was promoted to SSGT. He received medals for Marksmanship, National Defense, Good Conduct and was Honorably discharged in 1956. He returned to Mexico, Maine for a brief time, where he met the love of his life Patricia, during a visit to Lazarou’s Automotive, where she worked as a bookkeeper. They began dating and were married on June 4, 1960, after he graduated from the University of Maine in Orono with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. They moved to Ellsworth, where he worked as a High School Biology teacher for a few years, before relocating to Kennebunk for a new teaching position at Kennebunk High School. He enjoyed the Maine coast area and purchased a lobster boat to support his “lobstering” hobby during the summer months. In 1965, Emerson and Pat relocated to Winslow, Maine and raised their growing family of four children. He continued teaching for a short time at Winslow High School before taking a job in sales with Up-John pharmaceutical company. He left Up-John company and began working at WTVL Radio Station in Waterville where he worked in advertising for 20 years, building lifelong friendships with local business owners and people in the community. He enjoyed meeting new people and was an active community member, supporting local Scouting Troops and many school sports programs. He was also a member of the Rotary Club, Toast Masters and the Waterville Exchange Club and served as Exchange Club President for a time. Emerson enjoyed gardening and was also a skilled “jack-of-all trades” person, which kept him busy and active during his later years. He was also an avid sportsman and enjoyed many hobbies during his life, including racing speed boats and race cars in his earlier years at local amateur events such as Unity Raceway, where he won the Checkered Flag trophy on one occasion. He was a member of the Maine Big Bucks club and was always up for an outdoor adventure of hunting, fishing, skeet-shooting or riding along with old friends on an ATV adventure in the Maine woods. He became a member of the Arnold Trail Skeet Club Sidney Maine, where he met many wonderful friends and won numerous trophies at competitive shooting matches. He continued mastering his skeet shooting until the age of 90 and considered his club friends as a second family.

Emerson is survived by his four children, Kevin, Kathy, Kelly and Shawn (wife Kathleen) and granddaughter Isabella Fleury; nephew Tom Sawyer and niece Brenda Sawyer. He was predeceased by his wife Patricia (2021), one sister Eleanor Blais (2015), and by his parents Ilma and Charlie Fleury.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Friday, January 30, from 5-7 p.m., at the Winslow VFW, 175 Veteran Drive, Winslow. A burial will be held in the spring where he will be interred with his wife at St. Francis Catholic Cemetery, 78 Grove Street, Waterville. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on February 3, at 10 a.m., at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 26 Monument Street, Winslow, with a small reception to follow in the church hall.

The family would like to thank the Augusta Veterans Home and their amazing team of people for their care and support to Emerson during his stay over the last 18 months. Arrangements are under the direction and care of Aable Cremation Service, Waterville. An online guestbook may be signed; condolences and memories shared at http://www.aablecremationservice.com.