Notes for Dorothy Blaine MILLIKEN
Taken from Bates Magazine online Spring 2003
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Dorothy Milliken Sigsbee, Aug. 18, 2002. Dorothy Milliken Sigsbee was literally a daughter of Maine and of Bates. She was born in Blaine Mansion, the home of Maine's governor, while her father, Carl E. Milliken, Class of 1897, was governor. Her mother was Emma Chase Milliken, Class of 1897, the daughter of Bates' second president, George Colby Chase, Class of 1868. Shortly after graduation, she trained as a buyer for Filene's and then worked on the line at Seagram's distillery while her future husband, John P. Sigsbee '42, served in the U.S. Army; they were married in 1945 and he later became a medical doctor. She was an accomplished artist, specializing in scenes of Cape Cod. Her father was also a Bates Trustee. Her brother, Carl E. Milliken Jr., was a member of the Class of 1935. Many of her sisters attended Bates as well: Nelly Milliken Wade '23, Vivian Milliken Wills '24, Gladys E. Milliken '26, Beatrice Milliken Stiles '28, and Edith Milliken Wade '36. Nelly Milliken Wade's husband was Robert Wade '23; her son is Robert Wade '50, a Bates Trustee emeritus, who survives her. Her granddaughter, Emily Sigsbee, graduated from Bates in 1997, 100 years after Mrs. Sigsbee's parents. Besides her nephew and her granddaughter, she is survived by her daughter, Anne Sigsbee; two sons, Bruce Sigsbee and Carl Sigsbee; and seven other grandchildren.
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