Tuesday, November 21, 2017 5:55 am

ROCHESTER - Theodore Avery Stickney, within days of reaching his 100th birthday, died peacefully Friday afternoon, November 17, 2017, surrounded by family. He was born in Brownville, Maine, on November 25, 1917, a son of Clinton Stanley and Helen Hayward (Williams) Stickney.
Following his graduation from Brownville High School in 1935, he moved to New Jersey and began a long career as a model maker, assembler, toolmaker and machinist, working first for Westinghouse, and then Instrument Specialties of West Paterson, N.J., Davis Tool Company, Scott Williams Laconia, Clarostat, Inc., Dover, N.H., General Electric, Somersworth, and Janco, Rollinsford.
On January 16, 1954, he married Eleanor M. Willbrant, and together they shared 59 years until her death in 2014.
Following their marriage, Theodore and Eleanor moved to Dover, N.H. Then in 1958, they settled in Berwick where they raised their three boys. He was a member of the American Society of Tool and Manufacturing Engineers, the YMCA, the Y'smen's Club in Dover, N.H., and the former Society for Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America (now called the Barbershop Harmony Society).
Theodore enjoyed working around the house, and usually had one (or twelve) projects going at once, and at times reinventing the wheel. When not working on projects for Eleanor, his children, or his grandchildren, he could be found riding his yard tractor mowing his "estate", which he often described as "his therapy."
This past September, Theodore was awarded the Boston Post Cane, which recognizes the oldest male citizen of the town. After being awarded the Cane, he was interviewed by Berwick Community Television, and by Foster's Daily Democrat.
Theodore is survived by three sons, John Avery Stickney and wife Muriel, James Jay Stickney and wife Donna, and Mark Allen Stickney; eleven grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.
The one thing he wants people to remember about him was his ability to work with engineers and to know that he had a great career.