THOMPSON – Anne M. (Peterson) Bayer, 78, loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, passed away unexpectedly at Hartford Hospital on Saturday, November 23, 2019. She was predeceased by her husband of 39 years, Clayton J. Bayer in 1999, along with 2 older sisters, Barbara Hasenberg and Phyllis Willett, and older brothers Wallace Peterson and William Peterson.
She leaves behind 3 daughters, Debra Bomba and her husband Joseph of Windham, ME, Donna Fedler and her husband Daniel of Webster, MA and Barbara Bayer of York, ME. She also leaves behind 4 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren, granddaughter Lindsey Green and her husband David and their 2 children John and Rita, granddaughter Melissa Aviles and her husband Pedro and their 2 children Eleyna and Jaxson, and grandsons Tyler Bomba and Justin Fedler.
Anne was born in Putnam, CT the daughter of Frank and Jessie (Hefler) Peterson. She worked for many years at B & W Footwear Company in Webster. When it closed she went to school to study culinary arts and obtained a position as cook and house mother at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity House at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester where she fed “her boys” their 3 meals a day. She thought of them as family and talked about them often. She retired in 2007.
Mrs. Bayer was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Oxford. She enjoyed gardening, decorating, cooking and baking. She loved spending time with her family, having cookouts in the summer, vacationing with her daughters in Maine and watching her grandchildren and great-grandchildren grow. She made a positive impact on everyone who met her and will be dearly missed by her family, friends and acquaintances.
A private graveside service was held Saturday, December 7, 2019 in East Thompson Cemetery. Donations in her memory may be made to the Zion Lutheran Church Memorial Fund, 70 Main Street, Oxford, MA 01540. Arrangements were under the direction of Scanlon Funeral Service, 38 East Main St., Webster, MA.