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Lucille Simpson
ALFRED – Lucille Aldersley (Mansur) Simpson of Middle Branch Drive died April 16, 2005.
She was a pioneer, mother, mentor, friend, and advocate for the disadvantaged.
She was born April 10, 1922 in Lynn, Mass., to James and Rubie (Thompson) Aldersley and was raised in Chelsea, studied pharmacology and during World War II worked as a welder at the South Boston shipyard. On a visit to Shapleigh, she met Frederick Leroy Mansur on the Ross Corner Road and the rest is history.
An avid reader all of her life, she started the Shapleigh Public Library. She was also a selectman in Shapleigh for 12 years during which she was instrumental in setting aside land for a town forest.
In 1965, a widow with four children, she began a lifetime of work with York County Community Action Corporation. In the early days of the war on poverty she was responsible for bringing moneys to Maine for a wide variety of programs such as Headstart and WIC.
To address gaps in rural health service delivery, she developed the Healthmobile, a trailer, converted to a clinic, that traveled throughout York County. She began a lead poison screening program. As director of Expanded Child Health Services she ran five clinics throughout Maine. Through grant writing and fund-raising, she created the beginning of a transportation program for York County’s poor, elderly, and disabled. Working with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Service she developed a nutrition outreach program.
She was deputy director of York County Community Action, and director of the Home Energy Assistance Program, for several years.
She was an incorporator and president of the State Family Planning Association. She served on several boards including the Maine Health Systems Agency, York County Shelters, York County Cooperative Extension, Southern Maine Comprehensive Health Association, and Maine Medical Center.
In her work history she received numerous awards, honors, and commendations for her time, dedication, and wisdom. Those paying tribute included Southern Maine Community Health Association, Maine Rehabilitation Association, Maine Community Actin Association, and WIC. In 1997 she became the first woman to receive the Sanford Kiwanis Club Citizen of the Year Award. Southern Maine Area Agency on Aging honored her in 1982; in addition in 1999 they awarded her the John B. Truslow Advocacy Award.
After more than 25 years, she retired from Community Action on March 20, 1991. On that day, George Mitchell read a “Tribute to Lucille Simpson” into the Congressional record. She was most proud that he called her “a public servant in the greatest sense of the word.”
Whether testifying in Washington or driving down the Airline to Lubec, she had goodness with her wherever she went.
She taught others to fight for what they want and she called a spade a spade. She also, by example, taught how to throw a party, make a Bloody Mary, and dress for dinner. She loved gambling, watching old Tarzan movies, and reading mysteries. She traveled the world. She attended her 65th high school reunion in August, was singled out for her accomplishments, and looked beautiful in silver and black.
She was honored unmeasurably in 2001 with the naming of a housing complex in North Berwick after her: The Lucille M. Simpson Meadows. It is to here she is donating her extensive library.
She was a mentor to many.
She is survived by two daughters, Linda Mansur Migneault and husband David of Alfred, and Lynne Mansure of Alfred; one son, Forrest and family of Springvale; four grandchildren, Dianna, Deborah, James, and Frederick Mansur of St. Cloud, Fla.; and her friend of 32 years, Scott Davson of Plymouth, England.
In addition to her husband, she was predeceased by a son, Frederick James in 1990 and brothers, Raymond and James in 1940.
Her teachings continue. In a final act of giving, she donated her body to the University of New England. Her family will receive ashes in two-three years and will sprinkle them over the oceans she loved throughout the world.
In lieu of flowers, money may be sent to Lucille M. Simpson Meadows, North Berwick, ME 03906, for the establishment of the library.
Betty Trott
ELIOT - Betty Ann (Carlson) Trott, 72, of Main Street in Eliot, died on April 16, 2005 at York Hospital.
She was born in Weymouth, Mass. on Aug. 14, 1932, daughter of Per Adolph and Agda (Eckman) Carlson and graduated from Weymouth High School 1950. She was the first generation born in this country. She graduated from Syracuse University with a B.S. in Speech and Hearing, class of 1954. She was the president of the Syracuse University Chapter of Alpha Delta Pi.
She was a teacher at the School for the Deaf in Flint, Mich.; audiologist at the Speech and Hearing Clinic in Hartford, Conn.; traveling audiologist for the state of Maine Department of Health and Welfare; had a private practice in central and mid-Maine; started and served in the first clinic for speech and hearing therapy in Bangor; one of the first certified clinical audiologists in Maine and New Hampshire; audiologist for the Portsmouth Rehabilitation Center; aid at Portsmouth High School; earned an associate’s degree in Marine Science from SMVTI and taught there for one semester; taught science at Somersworth High School, class advisor and initiated their first Project Graduation, she also directed the student talent show for Somersworth High School and ran the style shows for fund-raising for the William Fogg Library in Eliot.
She was a member of the Eastern Star, the Eliot Women’s Forum, a Girl Scout leader of Troop 340, Eliot area Scout coordinator, director for Scelkit Girl Scout Camp at Kittery Point, Scout leader for a Wyoming trek with six Girl Scouts and her family to Ten Sleep, WY returning through Yellowstone and Canada
. She was also a member of the Eliot Congregational Church and served on its board. She was a recipient of the Fabian Drake Award, an active member of the Sandy MacDonald Minstrels and started the All Scout’s Circus at Nap Rousseau’s and the annual Scout town-wide clean-up. She also served on the board for meals on wheels.
After retiring from teaching, she pursued a life-long interest in owning and breeding Newfoundland dogs. After an unsuccessful search of Newfoundland and Canada for a brood bitch, she started Caleigh Newfoundlands with a little girl dog from Fredrickton, N.B. Her kennel provided a large number of families with one the greatest dogs. Her pet dogs live from northern Maine to Cape Cod and west to California. She along with three other Newfies’ owners started Newfoundland Dog Fund Days which will celebrate its 10th consecutive conclave in Eliot on the third weekend in September. She was a member of the Piscataqua Obedience Dog Club and the York County Kennel Club Inc. She has served as show chairman for the AKC/YCKC All Breed and Obedience Trial Dog Show for the last three years. She belonged to several Regional and National Newfoundland Dog Clubs including Canada.
She is survived by her husband of 46 years, Bruce; one daughter, Kristin and her husband Charles; four grandchildren, Zachary, Benjamin, Hannah, and Dena Burns; one great-granddaughter, Kristina Reams; one daughter, Kimberly Trott and her partner Rebecca Cipriano; one son, B. Cabot Trott and his wife Cheryl; four grandchildren Kayla and Dylan Long, Cameron Trott, and Ann-Marie Pino; and one son, Brian Trott and his wife Rebecca; her friends and companion dogs, Matey, Malie, Gillhooley (Canadian Champion) Newla-ann and predeceased by Caleigh; her cats, Patience and Isabell.
The funeral will be on Friday at 10 a.m. at her church, the First Congregational Church of Eliot on State Road with the Rev. Dr. David Avery officiating. Friends may visit with her family today from 6-8 p.m. at the J.S. Pelkey Funeral Home, 125 Old Post Rd., Kittery, ME 03904.
Family flowers only; her family suggests donations can be made in her memory to the Betty Trott Memorial Animal Rescue Fund C/O Glen E. Graper, P.A., 591 Middle St., Portsmouth, NH 03801.
Arrangements are entrusted to the J.S. Pelkey Funeral Home of Kittery.
Jacqueline Vadenais
SHREWSBURY- Jacqueline L. (Paquet) Vadenais, 73, of 35 St. James Rd. passed away on April 17, 2005 in Autumn Village Nursing Home in Worcester after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.
She is survived by her husband of 50 years, Alcide L. Vadenais; two sons, David A. Vadenais and his wife Joanne of Sturbridge, Mass., and James E. Vadenais of Worcester, Mass.; five daughters, Elizabeth A. Vadenais of Worcester, Elaine M. Vadenais of Shrewsbury, Mass., Eleanor J. Vadenais of Kennebunk, Michelle E. Moss of Auburn, and Jennifer A. Hanson and her husband Cory of Peoria, Ariz.; one brother, Paul A. Paquet and his wife Elizabeth of West Yarmouth, Mass.; four grandchildren, Jayson A. Vadenais, Sage Vadenais, Morgan B. Moss and Autumn Vadenais; and nieces and nephews.
A son, John P. Vadenais, died in 1991.
She was born in Leominster, Mass., daughter of the late Aime and Lillian (Flagg) Paquet and had lived in Shrewsbury since 1955. She was a member of St. Mary’s Parish in Shrewsbury.
She donated her body to Boston University Medical School for the purpose of Education, Research, and the advancement of Medical and dental science.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral Mass for her on Friday at 10 a.m. in St. Mary’s Church, 640 Main St., Shrewsbury.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in her name may be made to Parkinson’s Disease Research, APDA Massachusetts Chapter, 720 Harrison Ave., Suite 707, Boston, MA 02118.
Britton-Shrewsbury Funeral Home, 648 Main St., Shrewsbury is directing arrangements.
Patricia Adams
KENNEBUNK – Patricia G. “Mimi” Adams, 86, of 3 Huntington Commons Dr., died May 26, 2005 at Southern Maine Medical Center.
She was born on Jan. 13, 1919 in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Robert P. and Zelma (Pilson) Guiler.
She had lived in Philadelphia for many years before becoming a resident of Clark Road in Cape Neddick for 35 years, moving to Kennebunk five years ago.
She had worked in the reservations office of the Dockside Restaurant and as a shipping clerk for Saltwater Farms, both in York Harbor.
She was an avid reader and enjoyed doing crossword puzzles. As a child she had traveled throughout the world with her family, when her father had been stationed with the U.S. Navy. She continued her love of traveling throughout her life.
She was predeceased by her first husband, George C. Bowker, Jr. and by her second husband, Maj. John Q. Adams, USMC. She was also predeceased by a brother, Robert P. Guiler and a sister, Amelie “Lee” Hedin.
Survivors include two sons, George C. Bowker III and his wife, Clara of Bedford, N.H. and Robert P.G. Bowker and his wife Susan of Scarborough; two granddaughters, MacKenzie Rose Bowker and Cameron Skye Bowker; and her long-time friend, Betty Chase.
A graveside service was held Tuesday in the First Parish Cemetery, York Street, York.
Arrangements by Lucas and Eaton Funeral Home, York.
Ann Baranauskas
KITTERY – Ann (Baran) Baranauskas, 95, joined the company of witnesses and saints on May 29, 2005. She was born on Feb. 15, 1910, to Frank and Agatha Radzuikinas in Lawrence, Mass., the oldest of a brother and sister who predeceased her and a half sister still living.
She married William J. Baranauskas in 1930, and they lived in New Jersey where their two sons were born: Rev William R. Baran and his wife Betty of Kittery Point, Maine and Dr. Michael F. Baran and wife Carol of Huntsville, Ala. Her husband died in 1966 and she moved to Kittery, the following year living on Rice Avenue and Foxwell until a year ago last December when she moved into assisted living.
One of her great loves were her seven grandchildren, Susan Baran Donnell, who predeceased her, Stephen and wife Denise, Thomas and wife Linda, Michael and wife Faye, Paul and wife Lisa, Daniel and wife Mary Ann, and Matthew and wife Michelle; one grandson-in-law Charles Donnell and Nadine; and her 15 great-grandchildren from California to Maine all of whom called her “Gram.”
She was a nurses aide at Portsmouth Hospital for many years, and upon retiring enjoyed another love of traveling to be with family and friends through out the country, preferring for many trips to travel by bus (she was known as “Greyhound Grannie”), even traveling to Hawaii and Great Britain in her 80s.
She was a member of Second Christian Congregational United Church of Christ of Kittery, joining when her son was the pastor; and she was active in the Doorkeepers and the Pack Rats for many years.
She was active in developing senior housing in Kittery, and was president of the Residents Association at Foxwell Senior Housing for several years.
She developed a great talent of knitting, and her sweaters adorned the backs of sons, grandchildren, great-grandchildren with some of her works still surviving her. She was also an avid reader and could knit and read at the same time.
There will be a Service of Celebration and Thanksgiving on Saturday June 11 at 11 a.m. at the Second Christian Congregational United Church of Christ, 33 Government St., in Kittery, with coalition to follow in the church parish hall.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the elevator fund at her church.
Arrangements are entrusted to the J.S. Pelkey Funeral Home of Kittery.
Barbara Clark-Tesch
Barbara (Ramsdell) Clark-Tesch of Largo, Fla., and Kenne-bunkport (Goose Rocks Beach), Maine passed away May 20, 2005 at Largo Medical Center after an acute illness.
She was born in Malden, Mass. Aug. 30, 1918, the only daughter of Bessie (Emerson) Ramsdell and George A. Ramsdell.
She is survived by two sons, Alan J. Clark, M.D., ophthalmologist of Ocala, Fla. and George A. Papachristos Clark of Kennebunkport (Goose Rocks Beach); three granddaughters by her first marriage to Lloyd J. Clark (deceased), Kylene L. Clark-Zitzka and great-granddaughter, Payton Taylor Zitzka, Corinne K. Clark-Branz, and Phaedra Papachristos, and grandson Nikos Papachristos. By her second marriage to Clarence Tesch (deceased) two stepdaughters, LeAnn Benz and Nancy Foshag; two grandsons; three granddaughters; 11 great-grandchildren in Wisconsin.
She graduated from Dana Hall in Boston and St. Lawrence University. She attended the Katharine Gibbs School in 1941. During World War II she worked at Pratt Whitney in Connecticut in aircraft production after completing a course in aeronautical engineering at New York University College of Engineering, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics. She met her first husband Lloyd, a naval Lieutenant Commander, during the war and married Aug. 12, 1945 in Malden, Mass., where they assumed the family business, Middlesex Amusement Company, living at 121 Larchmont Rd., Melrose, Mass. After the early death of Lloyd, she married June 9, 1990, Clarence Tesch, a banker for Marshall and Ilsley Bank of Milwaukee, Wisc., and Largo, Fla., where they lived out their active lives as golfers and bridge players at Bardmoor Bayou Golf Club.
A summer resident of Kennebunkport (Goose Rocks Beach), for all of her 86 years of a happy, healthy, and active life, she will be missed by all who knew her.
Services were held on May 24 in The Garden Sanctuary, 7950 131st North, Seminole, FL 33776. The family asks, in lieu of flowers, donations are made to the following: Debi’s Puppy Love / Shelter for Stray and Homeless Animals, Bay Pines Plaza, 9673 Bay Pines Blvd., St. Petersburg, FL 33708 (727) 392-7662
There will be a memorial at her Goose Rocks Beach cottage within the first two weeks of August.
Roy Collins
LAKELAND, Fla. – Mr. Roy W. “Cy” Collins, a longtime resident of Kittery and a winter resident of Florida since 1967, surrounded by his family, after a brief illness, died peacefully on March 23, 2005.
He had celebrated his 94th birthday two weeks before. He was born on March 6, 1911 in Gardiner and was predeceased by his parents Harry R. and Maybelle B. Collins.
His family moved several times before settling in Kittery and, as a result, he attended various schools in Massachusetts and Maine. He graduated from R.W. Traip Academy in 1929. At Traip, he starred and was captain of the basketball and baseball teams and served as president of the senior class. In his senior year the basketball team lost only one game. After high school, he began working at the Portsmouth Navel Shipyard in Kittery at a variety of positions. After working for 38 years at the shipyard, the last years as an equipment disposal specialist, he retired in 1967.
He loved and participated in many sports throughout his life. He played basketball with teams from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the Portsmouth Sunset League, the Greenland Town Team, the Dover City Team, the Portsmouth City Team, the York Beach Team, and the Demolay Team, among others. Winters, he played basketball for the shipyard, the Second Christian Church, the Dover Pros, the Somersworth Pros, the Barrington Orioles, the Framington (Mass.) Associates, and the Haverhill (Mass.) Triangles. He later coached the Portsmouth Shipyard team to the East Coast playoffs in Philadelphia. At the same time, he trained several dogs for bird hunting and continued to go on fishing trips, the most recent in 2003.
He also was a well-respected basketball official and over a period of about 30 years officiated more than 1,000 high school, prep school, and college games in Maine and New Hampshire. He was a member of the International Association of Approved Basketball Officials (IAABO), the president of New Hampshire Basketball Officials, and served on the board of directors for Maine Basketball Officials for several years. He was selected to referee the New England high school championships at the old Boston Garden.
In 1958, he and several other Kittery parents conceived and organized the fifth- and sixth-grade basketball program. As developed, every player on a team played in every game. Over the next several years he continued to guide the program and also coach teams in both grades.
He joined the Kittery Naval Lodge 184 of Masons in 1939. After progressing through various offices, he served as Master of Kittery Lodge in 1961. He also served as the Junior Grand Steward of the Grand Lodge of Maine. He was a member of the Maine Royal Arch Chapter 73 of Kittery and a member of Lodge Council Chapter Consistory / Scottish Rite Bodies of the Valley of Portland. Additionally, he joined the Piscataqua Chapter, Order of Eastern Star in 1943, where he served as Worthy Patron in 1943. He served on the advisory board for the York Rainbow for Girls and the Kittery Demolay for Boys.
He had success for a number of years raising and racing homing pigeons. He was the racing secretary for the Port City Flyers who flew with the North Shore Combine, which included other racing clubs from coastal Maine, New Hampshire, and northern Massachusetts.
He was a former member of the York Golf and Country Club, where he served as president, and the Portsmouth Country Club. He played in leagues at both clubs and also played in the senior league in both Maine and New Hampshire and in the New England Left-Handers Association. While in Florida, he played in Lakeland at the Cleveland Heights Country Club and, the last several years at Highland Fairways.
He played competitive and social bridge with many groups, including York Ten Notrump, the Men’s Seacoast Bridge Club, and the Lakeland Men’s Club.
Over the last 10 years, he also participated in the Polk County (Fla.) Senior Games. At the games he received a number of gold, silver, and bronze medals for cribbage and bridge.
Mary Ellen (Sherburne) Collins, whom he married on May 23, 1943, survives him. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at the Portsmouth Country Club in 1993 and their 60th anniversary at Highland Fairways two years ago. He has two children, Susan Gorondy, a physician and surgeon living in Portland, Ore., and David Collins, an assistant U.S. Attorney living in Yarmouth; and seven grandchildren.
Funeral services will be celebrated on Friday at 10 a.m. at the Second Christian Congregational Church UCC on Government Street in Kittery.
Friends may visit with the Collins this evening from 6-8 p.m. at the J.S. Pelkey Funeral Home, 125 Old Post Rd., Kittery.
A Masonic Service will be held promptly at 6 p.m. on Thursday evening.
The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to a charity of one’s choice.
Arrangements are entrusted to the J.S. Pelkey Funeral Home of Kittery.
Richard Currier
CAPE NEDDICK – Richard Arlen Currier of Logging Road passed away the evening of May 27, 2005 at York Hospital after a long battle with cancer.
He was born July 26, 1934, the son of Everett Napoleon Currier and Doris (Penny) Currier of Cape Neddick. He attended R.W. Traip Academy where he played baseball and graduated in 1952. After graduation he went to work for his father in the landscaping, excavation and well drilling business.
During the 1950s and early 1960s he also worked for the York Public Works Department plowing and maintaining winter roads. Also in the early 1960s he helped build the Mount A ski resort. In 1963 he started his home building business. He became the substitute Cape Neddick mail carrier in 1966 and a few years later, he was appointed the full-time carrier position, while still continuing to operate his building business.
As mail carrier he was known for giving out Bazooka Joe bubble gum to all the kids on his route.
In 1984 he retired from building and in 1994 retired from the Cape Neddick post office after 28 years of service.
After his retirement from the post office, he went back into building with his son and Currier Builders. He then fully retired in 1999.
Throughout life, he was an avid hunter and a staunch believer in property-owner rights. He enjoyed early antique cars (having several) and was an early member of the Maine Obsolete Automobile League in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
He was also a collector of vintage firearms, having a collection of over 200 early pieces.
Being a family man with two sons, anytime that he was not working he was spending time with them playing baseball, going fishing and to antique auto and air shows.
Later in life, he enjoyed time with his grandson Josiah, attending auto shows and sharing some of his life and family stories with him.
People that knew him enjoyed his stories, his dry Yankee humor, and his kindness and generosity.
He leaves behind two sons, David Currier and Chris Currier both of Cape Neddick; one sister, Mrs. Carol Hannon of Portsmouth, R.I.; one grandson, Josiah Currier; two nieces; and one nephew.
Visiting hours will be noon to 2 p.m. Saturday followed by a Celebration of his Life Service at 2 p.m. at the Lucas and Eaton Funeral Home, 91 Long Sands Rd., York.
A private family burial will be held at a later date.
