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Elinor Gerrish
SOUTH BERWICK - Elinor F. Gerrish, 80, of 79 Portland St., formerly of Foxwell in Kittery, Maine and Rochester, N.H., died on Nov. 9, 2004 at Wentworth Douglass Hospital.
She was born on Aug. 17, 1924, in Kittery, the daughter of Forrest Bartlett and Ruth E. (Whitman) Emery. She attended local schools and graduated from R.W. Traip Academy with the class of 1943. She and her family attended the Second Christian Congregational Church in Kittery in her younger years. She enjoyed membership in the Rebekah's and in the W.A.V.F.W.
She was employed for a number of years at the Mark H. Wentworth Home in Portsmouth as a personal care assistant. She enjoyed crossword puzzles, her collection of owls, and lighthouses. She was fondly known as the queen of bingo, for her love of the game; she will also be remembered for her skill at making jig-saw puzzles, earning her the title of puzzle master.
She will be missed by those who knew and loved her including her family: two daughters, Nancy G. Riley and her husband Larry of Tomball, Texas and Beth L. Gerrish of Torrence, Calif. and her son, Bruce and his wife, Anne Marie Gerrish, of Kittery; and two grandchildren, Lee Anne Gerrish and Jeffrey Remick.
She was predeceased by her brother Thomas Emery.
A memorial service was celebrated on Saturday at Calvary Baptist Church in Portsmouth, N.H. with Pastor Donald Gum officiating.
Her family suggests in lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to the activity fund at Berwick Estates C/O Larry Hosak, 79 Portland St., South Berwick, ME 03908.
Arrangements are entrusted to the J.S. Pelkey Funeral Home of Kittery.
Lawrence Sullivan
CONCORD, N.H. - Lawrence Sullivan, known as "Larry" or "Sully" to his friends, of Concord, N.H., died Nov. 22, 2004 at Hospice House in Concord.
He was born in Cambridge, Mass. on July 22, 1916. He was the son of Lawrence M. Sullivan of Sneem, Ireland and Annie O'Connell of Tobbercurry, Ireland. He graduated from Somerville High School in Somerville, Mass. in 1934.
He served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1941 to 1945 as a navigator on B-17 bombers. He met his future wife Elizabeth "Betty" Walsh, a flight-training instructor, in Fort Worth, Texas during the war. They were happily married for 58 years before her death in 2003.
After the war, they moved to Concord where they raised five children. He worked for the B&M Railroad as a mechanic and became a part-time special police officer for the Concord Police Department in 1954. In 1957, as the Concord B&M shops were closing, he was hired as a full-time patrolman on the Concord Police Department.
He enjoyed police work, public service and the comradery of his fellow officers. He rose through the ranks to sergeant, lieutenant, captain and director, retiring as a director in 1980. His fondest memories were as a patrolman walking a beat in downtown Concord, where it seemed that he knew everyone and everyone knew him as "Sully."
After he retired from police work, he worked part time at Sears in Concord. He continued his public service, serving two terms in the N.H. Legislature, representing the South End area of Concord, from 1982 to 1986. He also served as a volunteer or board member of several local charitable organizations.
He and his wife moved to Boynton Beach, Fla. in 1987, where they enjoyed their retirement and the company of many friends, especially their nieces, Joan, Jennifer and Beth. They moved back to Concord in 2001.
He was a devoted family man who cherished time spent with his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was an avid reader, especially enjoying Irish
literature and biography. He passed his love of books on to his family. He and his wife were proud of showing a front-page 1963 article and family photograph when his family was named "Concord's Readingest Family" by the Concord Library Trustees. He recently traveled to Ireland where he visited relatives and spent time in the towns where his parents were raised.
He was predeceased by his wife, Elizabeth (Walsh) Sullivan, who died in 2003.
He is survived by his five children, Lawrence Sullivan Jr. of Warner, Elizabeth Ann Mancuso of York, Eileen Sullivan of York, Kathleen Hiller of Lochmere and Patricia Turner of Concord; six grandchildren, Catherine Nichols of Lancaster, Pa., David Gestewitz of Rochester, Sarah Gestewitz of England, Kelley Walberg of Londonderry, Amy Turner of Concord and Aaron Hiller of Newmarket; 11 great-grandchildren; one brother, Thomas Sullivan of Somerville, Mass.; one sister, Dorothea Gallagher of Melrose, Mass.; and many nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by brothers Francis Sullivan and John Sullivan; sisters Eileen Sullivan, Marian Hames and Anna Driscoll and two grandchildren, Christopher Eaton and Erika Eaton.
A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 180 Loudon Rd., Concord. Burial in the New Hampshire Veterans cemetery will be private.
Memorial donations may be made to the charity of one's choice.
His favorite organizations were the CRVNA Hospice House of Concord, the Concord Police Benevolent Association and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Eleanor Reppucci
NASHUA, N.H. - Eleanor L. (Martin) Reppucci, of Nashua, N.H., formerly of Winchester, Mass. for many years, died on Nov. 19, 2004.
She was the beloved wife of the late John Reppucci, loving mother of Jack and his wife Connie, of Burlington, Mass., George and his wife Nancy of York, and Joy M. Simeone and her husband Edward of Nashua, N.H., dear grandmother of David Reppucci of Burlington, Mass., and Amanda and Christopher Simeone of Nashua, N.H., devoted sister to Fay Zarella of Oregon, Amanda Markey of Medford, Mass., and the late Antoinette Quereze of Seekonk, Mass., dear companion of Andrew Zimbaldi of Laguna Beach, Calif., and is also survived by many nieces and nephews.
She was past president and vice president of the Mr. and Mrs. Club, and prefect and treasurer of the St. Mary's Church Ladies Sodality.
A funeral was held Tuesday at the Lane Funeral Home, Winchester, followed by a Mass of Christian burial at St. Mary's Church Winchester. Interment was at Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford.
In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to the Italian Home for Children, 1125 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130.
Patricia Twombly
KENNEBUNK - Patricia Jean Twombly, 62, a resident of Western Avenue, Kennebunk died Nov. 20, 2004 at Haven Health Care in Cape Elizabeth.
He was born in Biddeford on Nov. 30, 1941, a daughter of George and Ruth (Shackford) Twombly. She graduated from Kennebunk High School in 1960. She was a dishwasher for several local restaurants for many years.
She enjoyed spending time with her family.
She was preceded in death by her father, George Twombly and her stepfather, Frederick Goulden.
She is survived by her mother, Ruth Goulden; one brother, Paul Twombly and his wife Jill; two aunts, Marguerite Hubbard and Mildred Robinson; one uncle, Ernest Shackford; and nieces and nephews.
Private services were held at Bibber Memorial Chapel, Kennebunk on Monday with the Rev. Daniel Rigall. Interment was at Evergreen cemetery in Kennebunk.
Should friends desire, memorial donations may be made to: Alzheimer's Association, 163 Lancaster St.,
Suite 160B, Portland, ME 04101-2406.
Arrangements by Bibber Memorial Chapel, Kennebunk.
Randolph West
BIDDEFORD - Randolph Hartwell West, 91, of 130 Huntington Common Dr., died Nov. 15, 2004 at the South Ridge Rehabilitation Center in Biddeford.
He was born on March 26, 1913 in Amesbury, Mass., a son of John and Argie (Littlefield) West. He graduated from Wells High School in 1931 and then graduated from the University of Maine in 1938. He served in the U. S. Army South Pacific during World War II where he received a Bronze Star among other awards and decorations.
In 1967 he married Olive (Harding) Brooks. They lived in South Paris, Maine for seven years then moved to the family property in Wells, where they built their home. They lived there until 2003 when they moved to Huntington Commons in Kennebunk.
He worked for the Farmers Home Administration and then for 30 years for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Division. He was also a very active member of the Unitarian Church in Kennebunk.
He is survived by his wife Olive of Kennebunk; one son, Donald West; one daughter, Kathy Barbay and husband Bert of Canyon Lake, Calif.; one step-daughter, Faith Harriman and her husband Carl of Milton, N.H.; one brother, James West and his wife Edith of Columbus, Ga.; two sisters, Althea Jacobs of Redington Beach, Fla. and Eleanor Tilton of Portland; four step-granddaughters, Louise Reason of Rutland, Vt., Elaine Smart of Farmington, N.H., Sandra Wiggin of Boscawen, N.H., and Dorothy Newman of Lynn, Mass.; eight step-great-grandchildren; three step-great-great grandsons; and several nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to: University of Maine, PO Box 550, Orono, ME 04473-0550 for the Randolph West Scholarship Fund.
A memorial service was held Friday at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Main Street in Kennebunk.
Interment followed at Ocean View cemetery in Wells.
Arrangements by Bibber Memorial Chapel, Kennebunk.
Peter Cox
GEORGETOWN, Maine - Peter W. Cox, 67, a co-founder of Maine Times, died of esophageal cancer Nov. 18, 2004 at his home in Georgetown.
He and his partner, John N. Cole founded the statewide weekly on Oct. 4, 1968. He served as publisher then editor and publisher through 1985 when he sold the paper. He stayed on for a year and returned as editor in 1993-94 continuing his column until 2000.
"We had two basic reasons for starting Maine Times," he had written. "We wanted to cover issues rather than events and we believed in the community of Maine." Maine Times did not report on fires or accidents but on mistreatment of patients at the Pineland Center for the retarded and on efforts to build oil refineries on the coast of Maine. In its early years especially, the alternative weekly wrote about issues the traditional press had long neglected. Later, many of these issues were picked up by other news outlets. Maine Times developed a national reputation, especially for its environmental coverage.
After he left Maine Times, he devoted his energies to the same sorts of public policy affecting the future of Maine through non-profit organizations. He was especially proud of his work with Erick Jensen at Wolfe's Neck Farm in developing Wolfe's Neck Natural Beef, which made it more profitable for beef farmers and therefore enabled them to stay on the land and even expand their herds. Based on this experience, he worked on promoting market-based environmentalism, by which non-profits would sponsor businesses that served as models for others in showing that products developed in an environmentally sound manner could bring a premium price, giving an economic incentive to responsible environmentalism and allowing Maine's traditional resource-based industries to survive.
He saw the revitalization of agriculture as the primary way to protect farmland and curtail sprawl. His role in founding the Maine Downtown Center and SmartGrowth Maine were also indicative of this interest.
His own educational experience led him to found the Maine Public Policy Scholars at the University of Maine. The original concept was to have students working as teams in developing solutions to Maine public policy problems with the help of an informed but non-academic mentor. Many of the people he had met because of his journalism career volunteered as mentors. The program continues through the Maine Community Foundation.
He was born Aug. 13, 1937 in New York City, the child of Louise B. Cox of Bryson City, N.C. and Oscar S. Cox of Portland, Maine. The family lived in Washington, D.C. where his father was a member of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations and drafted the Lend-Lease Act. His father was also instrumental in the formation of the War Refugee Board.
He was graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1955 and Yale in 1959.
He spent summers in Kennebunkport, where in 1957 and 1958, he worked for Alexander "Sandy" Brook and John Cole at what was then the Kennebunk Star and became the York County Coast Star. In 1960, he worked as a campaign assistant to Frank M. Coffin, the Democratic candidate for governor and then freelanced briefly for the Biddeford Journal. In February, 1961, at the age of 23, he was hired as editor of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise in Saranac Lake, N.Y., where he met his wife, Eunice Theodore of Lake Placid. With her, he returned to Maine in 1965 as editor of the Bath Daily Times, then in 1967 became the managing editor of the merged Times and Brunswick Record, the Times Record edited by John Cole. In 1968, he and Cole founded Maine Times. In 1976, the University of Missouri awarded the paper an honor award for Distinguished Service in Journalism. In 1980, the Natural Resources Council of Maine president Jon Lund, in giving Cox his conservation award, described him as: "Tireless critic of state government, industry and the environmental movement, incurable optimist with the unshakable conviction that he can be the catalyst in making his beloved state of Maine a better place to live..."
He served on the board of the Maine Civil Liberties Union and as its president; on the boards of American Civil Liberties Union, Maine Audubon, Portland Museum of Art, and Salt; and as an advisor from Maine to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. As co-chair of the Eco/Eco Civic Forum, he was instrumental in starting the Maine Downtown Center, where he served as co-chair of the advisory board. He was on the founding board of the anti-sprawl group, GrowSmart Maine. He was long-time board president of the Wolfe's Neck Farm. At the time of his death, he was also on the Maine board of the Conservation Law Foundation and Manomet. He was also a member of the Georgetown Zoning Board of Appeals.
The family lived in Topsham and then moved to Indian Point in Georgetown in 1985. He loved writing about and discussing public policy. His article on property tax reform was published in the Maine Sunday Telegram Oct. 3. His memoir, Journalism Matters, will be published in December by Tilbury House. He was an avid gardener, skier, tennis player, cook, and loved art and design. He shared his interests with his children. His daughter Sara is a potter who formerly owned Delilah Pottery and now works in social services. His son, Tony, a former ski instructor at Jackson Hole, Wyo., now with his wife owns Casco Bay Frames, a picture frame shop in Portland, and have renovated several historic houses.
He is survived by his brother, Warren J. of Washington, D.C.; his wife, Eunice; and his two children, Sara Winston of Bowdoinham and Anthony Oscar and his wife, Heather, and their children Anna and Olivia of Bowdoinham.
There will be no funeral.
Memorial contributions may be made to Maine Public Policy Scholars, C/O Maine Community Foundation, 245 Main St., Ellsworth, ME 04605.
Condolences may be expressed at www.kincerfuneralhome.com
Arrangements are under the care of Kincer Funeral Home, 130 Pleasant St., Richmond, ME 04357.
Walter Fiel
NORTH BERWICK - Walter E. "Bud" Fiel, 85, after a brief illness, passed away peacefully at home in North Berwick on Nov. 20, 2004.
He was born Oct. 31, 1919, to Fred and Irene (Shaw) Fiel. He was a native of North Berwick and attended local schools where he was active in sports and Scouting.
In 1943 he joined the United States Army, and after basic training, left for Europe. At the end of the war, he returned to Maine. In 1950 he was called back to active duty for service in Korea. After Korea, he decided to make the Army a career and served in many stations around the world, including a tour in Vietnam. He retired as a Sgt. Major in 1970 with many decorations, including a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.
He was a very active retiree. He and his wife, Celine, spent many years traveling, eventually visiting every state except Alaska. He loved to work and continued to do so his entire life, making many friends of all ages.
He was a member of the Yorkshire Lodge 179 AF & AM and the Quint-Cheney Post of the American Legion.
He is survived by his four children, Karen Cincotta of Windham, N.H., Andrew Fiel of North Berwick, Pamela Concepcion of Las Vegas, Nev., and Suzette Wall of Dallas, Texas; 10 step-children: Patricia Willis of Atlantic Beach, Fla., Sharon Hilton of North Berwick, Carl Hilton of Springvale, Joel Hilton of North Berwick, Carlene Fiel of North Berwick, Maureen Jayne of Eugene, Ore., Janice Eagle of Alfred, Steven Hilton of Sanford, Wendy Guptill of Berwick, and Allen Hilton of Sanford. Also surviving their "Grampa Bud" are 24 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren; four sisters, Anna Matthews, Priscilla Petersen, Shirley Levasseur, and Brenda Wyman, all of North Berwick.
He was pre-deceased by his wife Celine in 2002 and his stepson Peter in 2001 and sister, Virginia Gray.
A Masonic service was held Monday at the Johnson Funeral Home, North Berwick. Funeral services were held Tuesday followed by a military burial in Hillside Cemetery, North Berwick.
Friends who wish may contribute to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Pl., Memphis, TN 38105.
Norman Haweeli
KITTERY - Norman Haweeli, 87, a resident of Meetinghouse Village, Kittery, died Nov. 18, 2004 at Portsmouth Regional Hospital.
He was born on April 14, 1917 in Berlin, N.H., the son of Ayoub and Nijmey Haweeli. He was a graduate of Berlin Senior High School class of 1934 and the University of New Hampshire in 1939. He received his master's degree from Harvard Graduate School of Education. He received his doctorate from Columbia University Teachers College.
He served as assistant headmaster at the Berlin Junior High School before moving to New York to become elementary principal and later the superintendent
of schools in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., then the Ravena-Coeymans Central School District. He was also a substitute superintendent of East Williston, N.Y. schools.
He moved to Illinois and became superintendent of the Glenview-Northbrook high schools. He returned to New York to head the Herricks School system in New Hyde Park from which he retired in 1974. In all he spent 22 of his 25 years in education at the administrative level.
He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1942 to 1946. He saw extensive duty in the South Pacific and was discharged as 1st lieutenant and later he reached the rank of major in the U.S. Marine Reserves.
For many years he was very active in the Episcopal Church in New Hampshire, New York, and Illinois.
He was predeceased by his parents, his brother, Edward, sister, Julia Reynolds, and sister Ida Tillinghast.
He is survived by his wife, Eleanor. They celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary on July 20, 2004. He is also survived by one son, Stephen, and his wife Ellen, and one grandson, Ned, all of East Hampton, N.Y.; one brother, David and his wife Henrietta, one niece Ellen and one nephew John, all of Greenwich, Conn.
His life was enriched over the last 10 years by the care, comfort, and compassion shown to him by the physicians and staff at the Seacoast Dialysis Center in Portsmouth, N.H.
A private family graveside service is planned for early next spring in the Russian City Cemetery, Berlin, N.H.
Arrangements are entrusted to the J.S. Pelkey Funeral Home of Kittery.
Ernest Maby
KITTERY - Ernest C. Maby, 85, formerly of 6 Rudolph Ave. in Kittery, died on Nov. 17, 2004 at the Mark H. Wentworth Home in Portsmouth.
He was born on May 21, 1919 in Kittery, the son of Edward G. and Marion (Milliken) Maby, and attended local schools, graduating from R.W. Traip Academy with the class of 1936. Directly following graduation, he entered the apprenticeship program at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, where he served 37 years as an electrical engineer before his retirement in 1974.
In 1946, he married his loving wife of 54 years, Judith (Halliday) Maby; together they made their home in Kittery until her death in 2000. He was very active in his community serving on the budget and finance committee, school board, assessment review board and served as a town councilor.
He enjoyed photography. Processing his work in his dark room at home was a favorite past time. He was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church in Portsmouth.
He is survived by one son, Edward Maby of Redondo Beach, Calif.; two sisters, Mildred Cushman of Cape Elizabeth, and Elizabeth Rainier and her husband Andy of Kittery; two brothers, Edward and his wife Ruth Maby of Kittery and Earl Maby of Monson, Mass.; as well as several nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by his wife in 2000.
A funeral was celebrated on Saturday at his church, St. John's Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, with burial to follow in Orchard Grove cemetery in Kittery.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to the Rice Public Library, 8 Wentworth St. in Kittery, ME 03904.
Arrangements are entrusted to the J.S Pelkey Funeral Home of Kittery.
