West Gardiner- Roberta P. McLaughlin, age 84 of West Gardiner passed away peacefullyThursday, April 8, 2021 at her home with her family by her side. She was born October 4, 1936 in Gardiner, the daughter of Laurence Sr. And Audrey Hackett Dick.
She attended Gardiner area schools and graduated from Gardiner High School, the class of 1955. She attended secretarial school and married her first husband,Gary D. Pillow of Rustburg, VA, where both eventually resided and raised family of three until his death in 1968.
She raised the family on her own, until she met and married Dr. Ivan McLaughlin in 1982. The family moved to Main in that same year.
Roberta loved living in her home on Cobbosseecontee Stream.
She is predeceased by husbands Gary D. Pillow and Dr. Ivan E. McLaughlin, brother Thomas W. DIck, sister Nadine D." Dee Dee" Doiron, brother-in-law David Trask, and sisters- in-law Sue Dick and Geraldine Dick.
She is survived by her children Marnie Webb and her husband Douglas of Pittston, Gary D. Pillow Jr. and his wife Melissa, and Paul J. Pillow II and his wife Shari of Durham, 5 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren, brother Laurence E." Buddy" Dick Jr. of VA, sister Pamela Trask of OR, brother-in-law William Doiron of Augusta, and several nieces and nephews.