Marilyn Van Saun
BRIDGTON - Marilyn Van Saun, 87, of Upper Ridge Road, died Thursday, August 28, 2014, in Falmouth. She was born in Gardner, Massachusetts, the only child of Gladys Maybelle Brothers and Charles Dawley Towle. She was educated in local schools and joined the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps in 1944. She graduated from Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing in 1948. In November of that year she married Stuart Van Saun and began a thirty-year year career as an operating room nurse. Marilyn moved to Maine in 1962 and began working for Dr. Clement Hiebert assisting him in open heart and thoracic surgery for twenty-two years. She retired at age fifty-six and spent her remaining years enjoying her three Morgan horses and multiple dogs and cats. An avid rider, she rode almost daily, summer and winter, well into her eighties. She was a longtime board member, volunteer, and foster parent for Harvest Hills Animal Shelter. She also served for more than twenty-five years on the board of the Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals. She is predeceased by her banker husband, Stuart Van Saun. All services will be private. Burial will take place in Westminster, Massachusetts. Arrangements are by Conroy-Tully Crawford Funeral Home, 172 State Street, Portland.Online condolences may be expressed below.
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My friend I will miss you greatly, especially your straight forward advice, always telling it like it is! Your love of animals was inspirational, you loved them all.Rest easy, I will always remember you as a grand lady.
– Diane Boutilier