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FRIENDSHIP - Evelyn M. (Wallace) Winchenbach, 92, passed away peacefully Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, at Glenridge Nursing Home, Augusta. She was born July 30, 1920, in Friendship, daughter of the late Charles and Nellie Wincapaw Wallace. She grew up in Friendship and attended local schools and was a student at Rockland High School. During her teenage years she worked as a baby sitter for local families around town. After school she met and married Maynard Winchenbach, and through his hard work she was able to stay home and take care of her family. She also spent some time working as a seamstress at J. B. Pearson, Thomaston. She was a member of the 4-H Club. She was involved in the grange and was a member of Achorn Grange No. 418, Cushing. She was a member of Friendship Baptist Church, where she also would volunteer as a Sunday school teacher. She was predeceased by her loving husband, Maynard Winchenbach; brother, Robert Wallace; and sisters, Ava Wallace and Annie Hutchins. Survivors include her sons, Kendall Winchenbach and his wife, Bette, of Bangor and Gary Winchenbach and his wife, Joanne, of Gardiner; daughter, Janet Neubig and her husband, John, of Friendship; brothers, Douglas Wallace of Waldoboro and J. Harlan Wallace of Friendship; grandchildren, David Neubig and his wife, Yana, Dwayne Neubig and his wife, Anya, Shirley Moody and her husband, Harry, Kimberley Tracey, Adam Winchenbach and Jaime Winchenbach; and great-grandsons, Joshua Neubig and Cody Tracey. Burial will be in the family lot at Village Cemetery, Friendship. (Bangor Daily News 9/29/2012) |