Marilyn Pray Bommer

Marilyn Pray Bommer passed away on May 13, 2025. She was born in Bradford, Maine in 1931, the fourth of Percy and Lucy Pray's nine children.

Marilyn was the valedictorian of her nine-student graduating class from Bradford High School and then graduated from the Maine General Hospital School of Nursing. She worked as a nurse in New York City, Hartford, and Boston before becoming a flight attendant with Northeast Airlines.

Marilyn met her husband, Arno Bommer, as a patient sitting in his dental chair. They were married in 1957. Marilyn and Arno raised their three children, Elizabeth, Arno, and Allan, in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. The family attended Centre Congregational Church and enjoyed regular summer trips to Sebec Lake in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. After the children left home, Marilyn returned to work assisting Arno in his dental office.

In recent years, Arno and Marilyn lived at Brooksby Village in Peabody, Massachusetts. They enjoyed regular winter trips to Tarpon Springs, Florida and summer trips to Long Lake in Naples, Maine. Marilyn enjoyed long walks, gardening, golf, and book-reading and helped raise two granddaughters, Natasha and Tatyana. She wrote an autobiography that described her life journey: "Hard Times, Simple Times, Good Times - Growing up in Rural Maine in the 1930's and 1940's."

She is survived by her husband, Arno, her children, Elizabeth, Arno (wife Erin), and Allan (wife Crystal), her granddaughters, Natasha, Alyssa, Tatyana, and Amelia, her siblings Adrian Pray (wife Valerie), Lorraine Higgins (husband Bob), and Lois Knapp, and her sister-in-law Marlene Pray. She was predeceased by her siblings Percy Pray Jr., Elsie Catell (husband Stan), Marjorie Niles (husband Richard), Rose Whiteside (husband Haven), and Paul Pray, and by her brother-in-law Joe Knapp.

At Marilyn's request, there will be no public service.

She will be missed by all who knew her.