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Arlene Young
October 16, 2003
Kennebunk, ME
Arlene R. Young, age 78 years, died Thursday at the Kennebunk Nursing and Rehabilitation Center after a lengthy illness. She was the wife of Henry F. Young.
She was born in Springfield, MA July 30, 1925 a daughter of Walter and Ruby Wakefield (Bouvier) Sampson. She attended Springfield schools and moved to Maine in the early 1960s.
Mrs. Young was employed at the former K & E Company of Kennebunk for over 25 years retiring in the late 1980s. She enjoyed fishing with her husband of on the many lakes that Maine has to offer especially Sebago, Moosehead, Mousam and many others.
She is survived by her husband of 47 years a sister Mrs. Roger (Barbara) Edgerly of Wabbosa, FL, a step brother Albert Bouvier of Hesperia, CA, nephews Wane Sampson of Kennebunk and Dennis (Smokey) Sampson of Lyman. Several other nephews also survive.
She was predeceased by her parents and brothers Victor Sampson, Robert Sampson.
Friends may call at the Bibber Memorial Chapel 67 Summer St. Kennebunk Sunday afternoon from 3 to 5 PM. Funeral services will be held 11AM Monday Oct 20 at the Chapel. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
William Ward Miles
November 16, 2003
Wells
William Ward Miles, 79 years, resident of Horace Mills Rd, died Sunday at his residence. He was the husband of Marguerite (Schnare) Miles.
Mr. Miles was born April 28, 1924 in Boston, MA a son of Arthur R. and Gertrude (Strong) Miles. He graduated from Medford High School and attended Dartmouth College. He is a veteran of the US Navy serving during WWII. He retired from Simplex Wire and Cable Company where he worked as a Supervisor. He lived in Dover, NH prior to moving to Wells. Mr. Miles enjoyed golf and loved spending time with his family and especially his grandchildren.
He is survived by his wife Marguerite of 55 years of Wells, a daughter Sandra Miles and her husband Gerald, grandchildren Tory and Holly Miles and a brother Arthur Miles.
Friends may call at Bibber Memorial Chapel, 111 Chapel Rd., Wells Tuesday from 6-8 PM. A graveside service will be held at 11 AM Wednesday at Puritan Lawn Cemetery, Peabody, MA.
Beverly Littlefield
October 14, 2003
Kennebunk, ME.
Beverly M. Littlefield, 75, of Pleasant St., died Tuesday at home surrounded by family members.
She was born May 2, 1928 in Chambly, Quebec Canada
, the daughter of Keith and Ruth Dalton and lived most of her life in Kennebunk, graduating from Kennebunk High School in 1946.
In 1947 she married George Frank Littlefield and spent the next years as a devoted wife and mother. Later she was employed for over 30 years by the Kennebunk School Department, retiring in 2001.
She enjoyed reading, crocheting, crossword puzzles, spending time with her family and friends, and adding to her extensive collection of antique Toby Jugs. She loved to travel, and took a number of trips to Europe, the Caribbean, and throughout the United States.
She was predeceased by her husband and two brothers, Stan and John.
Survivors include her daughter Karen: sons Steven, Michael, and Scott; sisters Barbara, Betty, and Brenda; brothers Ben, Bob and Bruce; many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nephews and nieces.
Friends may call at Bibber Memorial Chapel, 67 Summer Street, Kennebunk on Thursday 6 to 8 PM. A funeral service will be held Friday, October 17, 2003 at 11:00 AM at the Christ Church in Kennebunk, ME. Interment in Hope Cemetery.
Should friends desire, memorials may be made to The Visiting Nurses of York Hospital, at 15 Hospital Dr, York, ME. 03909 or to the Christ Church at 6 Dane Street, Kennebunk, ME. 04043 in Beverly's memory
C. Esther MacLeod
September 18, 2003
Wells
Wells- C. Esther MacLeod 92 yrs, a resident of Drakes Island Road Wells, died Thursday Sept 18, 2003 at the Greenbriar Terrace Health Care in Nashua, NH after a long illness.
She was born in Waltham, MA on December 19, 1910 a daughter of Arthur and Ida Hoyt Beverly .She graduated from Watertown, MA High School and attended Secretarial School in Boston for several years.
She worked as a secretary for many places from 1942 to 1971.
Esther was very active in many groups including the bridge club, the Wells-Ogunquit Health Association, Friends of the Library, The Extension and the Wells Congregational Church.
Esther was also quite musical. She liked to play the piano and organ, and loved to sing, She was an outdoors person and always loved to take walks on the beach at Drakes Island.
She was predeceased by her husband Thomas MacLeod , her brothers and sisters, Paul and Stephen Beverly , Ruth B. Berry, Phyllis B. Dudley and Marjorie Beverly..
She is survived by her daughter Janice Shepard of Burlington, MA, 4 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren.
Memorial Visiting hours will be held from 10 to 11 AM Thursday September 25, 2003 at the Bibber Memorial Chapel 111 Chapel Road, Wells, Me where a service will be held at 11 AM with the Reverend Herbert Henry officiating. Interment will be in Westview Cemetery, Lexington, MA.
Should friends desire memorial donation may be made to the Maine Alzheimer’s Disease 163 Lancaster Street, Portland, Me 04101 in Mrs. MacLeod’s memory.
C. Mary Hanway
September 20, 2003
York, ME
C. Mary Hanway a resident of York, ME died September 20, 2003 in Biddeford, Me.
Her service was private.
Charles E. Kelley III
September 28, 2003
Kennebunkport, ME.
Charles Elliott Kelley III, 72, a resident of Cape Porpoise, ME., formerly of Walpole, MA., passed away peacefully, Sunday, September 28, 2003 at his home after a long illness.
Mr. Kelley was born in Lawrence, MA., the son of Charles Elliott Kelley Jr. and Esther M. (Kelley) Haverty. He graduated from Tilton Academy - Tilton, NH. and Boston University in Boston, MA. He served his country proudly in the Korean War as a member of the US Armed Forces.
Mr. Kelley was the former owner of the Wrentham Insurance Agency in Wrentham, MA. for 32 years before becoming a self-employed lobsterman in Cape Porpoise.
He was a 44 year member and past master of the Azure Lodge of Walpole, MA., Chaplain of the Arundel Lodge 76 and member of the Order of the Eastern Star of Kennebunkport. He was a member of the Maine Lobsterman’s Association and the American Legion of Kennebunkport and was a member and trustee of the First Congregational Church of Kennebunkport.
A beloved son, devoted husband and caring father and friend, he was a trusted participant in many church and lodge activities. Through his selflessness and charity, Mr. Kelley served as a mentor and inspiration to his family, church constituents and fellow lodge members.
Mr. Kelley is survived by his wife of 50 years, Eunice (Lilley) Kelley of Cape Porpoise, ME., his mother, Esther of Kennebunk, ME., four sons - Stephen E. of Sheldonville, MA., Charles C. of Scarborough, ME., Jonathan S. of Buxton, ME., and Richard M. of Scarborough, ME., two daughters - Sharon E. (Kelley) Carleton of Needham, MA., and Elizabeth M. Kelley of Cape Porpoise, ME., seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
A Masonic Service will be held Saturday, October 4th, 2003 at 11:00 AM, at the First Congregational Church, North Street, Kennebunkport, ME., followed by a Memorial Service with the Reverend Bonnie Steinroeder officiating. Interment will be in Arundel Cemetery, Kennebunkport, ME.
In lieu of Flowers, donations may be made in Mr. Kelley’s memory to the First Congregational Church, 141 North Street, Kennebunkport, Me 04046
Charlotte Wills
September 04, 2003
Kennebunk
Mrs. Charlotte Theresa (Gibbs) Wills 91 years a resident of Wood Pond Lane Kennebunk formerly of Ogunquit died peacefully Thursday September 4, 2003 at her home surrounding by her daughter, her loving caregiver Susan Calder, Carol Gann, RN and Megan Smith of Beacon Hospice.
Mrs. Wills was born in Littleton, NH on February 11, 1912 a daughter of Herbert and Theresa (Delaney) Gibbs and attended Edward Little High School in Auburn, Maine and graduated from University of Maine at Orono.
She was a long time teacher where she was the last teacher at Burnham School in Arundel and later taught in North Berwick, York Beach and York Village school system.
She was predeceased by her husband William Wills and her brother Richard Gibbs.
She is survived by her daughter Claudia Wills of Kennebunk.
Per Mrs. Wills request there will be no services.
Interment will be in Mount Auburn cemetery in Auburn Maine at later date.
Friends desire memorial donation may be made to the Beacon Hospice 600 Roundwood Drive Scarborough, Maine 04074 in Mrs. Wills ‘s memory.
Clifton Shippee
September 21, 2003
Scarborough
Scarborough- Clifton W. Shippee, 77, a resident of Maine Veterans Home in Scarborough, Maine, died September 21, 2003 at the Maine Veterans Home after a long illness.
Mr. Shippee was born in Buckland, Massachusetts on January 18, 1926, a son of John and Bessie Handfield Shippee Sr. and attended schools there. He was a WWII and Korean veteran serving with U.S. Navy.
Mr. Shippee was an installer and repairman for the AT&T Bell Telephone company for over thirty-five years .
He was a member of the Mountain Masonic Lodge in Shelburne Falls, MA., and also a Shriner in Maine. Clifton also was a big fan of the Wells Football Team. He enjoyed gardening, golf, and singing. He was a member of both the Suncook and Seaglass Chorale groups.
Surviving are a step son, Tom Cooledge of Wells; a daughter, Pam Schiavone of Puyallup, Washington; a step daughter, Jean Walters of Wells; and a brother, John S Shippee Jr. of Buckland, Massachusetts.
Friends may call from 6-8 PM, Thursday September, 25 at the Smith-Kelleher Funeral Home in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts where a Masonic Funeral Service will be held at 11 AM on Friday, September 26. Interment will follow in the Taylor cemetery in Buckland, Massachusetts.
Should friends desire memorial donations may be made to the Shriner’s Hospital for Children, 516 Carew Street, Springfield, MA 01104-2396.
Donald Jack Schalk
October 21, 2003
Wells
Donald J. Schalk 72, of Wells, ME died Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at Seaside Nursing & Retirement Center , Portland, ME after a long illness.
He was born June 12, 1931 in Buffalo, NY, a son of Albert Jacob Daniel and Louise Franziska (Drews) Schalk, the youngest of eight brothers and sisters. He attended local schools in Buffalo and then joined the US Marine Corps, serving during the Korean War and was awarded the Purple Heart. He retired from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard where he worked as a Gantry Crane Operator.
He was a member of the American Legion post #19 and was a disabled American Veteran.
He is survived by his loving wife, Constance (Gauthier) Cleveland-Schalk, a son, Alan Schalk of So. Berwick, two daughters Karen Clough of Sanford and Barbara Bennett of So. Berwick. Two step-daughters Michelle LaChapelle of Ogunquit and Tricia Harrington of Liberty, one brother William of Buffalo, NY and one sister Esther Wagner of Clearwater, FL., Four grandchildren, five step-grandchildren and several nieces, nephews, and friends.
Graveside services will be held at the Maine Veterans’ Memorial cemetery in Augusta, Friday, Oct. 24 at 11 AM.
Should friends desire, memorial donations may be made to the Maine Alzheimer’s Association, 163 Lancaster St., Suite 160B, Portland, ME 04101 or the American Heart Association of Maine, 343 Gorham Road, So. Portland, ME 04106 in his memory.
Alice Mae Nichols
January 27, 2005
Kennebunk
Alice Mae Nichols, age 71 years, a resident of the Witham Home in Skowhegan, formerly of Kennebunk died Thursday at the Redington-Fairview Hospital after a long illness.
Miss. Nichols was born in Kennebunk, May 14, 1933, a daughter of Fred D. and Alice Mae Stevens Nichols.
She is survived by several cousins.
Funeral services will be held 11AM Monday Jan 31st at the Bibber Memorial Chapel 67 Summer St. Kennebunk with the Rev. Robert Cole officiating. Interment in Mountain View Cemetery, Casco, Me. later in the spring.
Barbara Terry Grimes
January 26, 2005
Wells
Barbara Terry (Parsons) Grimes, poet; teacher; artist; widow of New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice William A. Grimes; and a volunteer leader in Dover for more than 50 years, has died. Mrs. Grimes passed away at Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford following a brief illness. She was 87.
Seacoast residents from the 1950s through the 1980s knew Mrs. Grimes as one of the region’s most active volunteers. At various times she served as president of the Dover Woman’s Club, Community Concerts Association, Lioness Club, Northam Colonists Historical Society, and Wentworth Hospital Auxiliary Board. She was chairman of the Trustees of the Dover Public Library during the 1970s and a trustee for almost two decades. She directed and acted in community theatre, delivered readings and oral book reviews to women’s groups, wrote and delivered the commentary for fashion shows, and often helped choose the winner of the City’s annual holiday lighting contest.
In the 1950s and 60s, she was a member of the Dover Girl Scout Council, as well as a troop leader, first for Dover teens, later for mentally handicapped girls at the Great Bay School. When local scouts and their families filled the Dover Armory for an evening of song, folk dances and recitations, Mrs. Grimes was mistress of ceremonies.
Many local children knew her as “The Shell Lady.” An avid student and collector of seashells, she gave presentations that provided countless kindergartners with their first glimpse of a chambered nautilus and their first appreciation of the equally beautiful if less exotic limpets and periwinkles found on our own North Atlantic beaches.
Many local children also received their first experience of poetry, and wrote their first poems, in workshops she held in the Dover and Portsmouth schools. Mrs. Grimes also read aloud to children in the Dover Library Children’s Room.
As a poet Mrs. Grimes tackled subjects big and small, but she will perhaps be best remembered for her meditations on Love and Nature. Her work appeared in the Ladies Home Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, New Hampshire Profiles, the Maine Sunday Telegram and numerous special-interest and literary magazines.
Mrs. Grimes was born June 4, 1917, in Winthrop, Massachusetts, the eldest daughter of Carl Ellsworth Parsons and Helen Terry Parsons. She was educated in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1939 with a degree in English. While at UNH she was a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority and, later, a trustee and president of the sorority house corporation.
She moved to Dover with her family while she was in college and it was there that she met Bill Grimes. They were married in 1940 and, when World War II broke out, she accompanied him to military posts first in Pensacola, Florida, and then in San Francisco, where she lived while he flew missions across the Pacific. There she started writing poems about being a young wife awaiting her husband’s return and about her love for him.
After the war, they returned to Dover, and shortly thereafter her husband was appointed to the New Hampshire Superior Court, beginning a long career in the judiciary that eventually led them both to a life of frequent and purposeful travel, as Judge Grimes became active nationally in the continuing education of judges. Between the early 1960s and the late 1990s, they were often away from Dover for several months at a time, participating in seminars and programs at conference centers and universities throughout the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.
Noticing that most of the judges’ spouses had little to do on these trips, Mrs. Grimes became instrumental in the development of stimulating educational programs for the judges’ spouses. For these efforts she was honored many times by the American Bar Association and the National Judicial College. In the summer of 1998, Judge and Mrs. Grimes appeared together on the cover of the Judicial College’s alumni magazine, which featured a tribute to their 35 years of service together to the cause of judicial education in the United States.
After Chief Justice Grimes reached mandatory retirement from the bench in 1981, he started a new career as a visiting law professor, and Mrs. Grimes, now in her 70s, went with him, quickly adapting to the life of a faculty spouse, first in San Diego and later at the University of Oklahoma. She made friends wherever she went and at one time was hand addressing more than 700 Christmas cards.
Christmas was the source of much of her artistic inspiration. She wrote more than two dozen Christmas poems. She also decorated tens of thousands of satin Christmas tree balls with pearls, sequins and ribbons, and gave them away to friends and family all around the country.
After her husband’s death in 1999, Mrs. Grimes took up permanent residence at their beach cottage at Drakes Island, Wells, Maine, where she gradually succumbed to senile dementia. In her later years, she enjoyed the comfort of her beloved caregivers and friends Terry Cote, Rosemary Pearson, Terry’s daughter Stephanie and other members of the Cote family, as well as many wonderful women from the Home Instead agency who cared for her. Her family will forever be grateful for their extraordinary kindness.
Barbara Grimes was a devoted wife, mother and friend who will be sadly missed. She is survived by her daughter, Gail Terry Grimes Whitmyer of San Francisco; her son, Gordon Francis Grimes of Durham, Maine; their spouses, Claude Whitmyer and Anne Grimes; two grandchildren, Katherine Ash Grimes and William Gordon Fraser (Judd) Grimes; her sister Nancy Voss of Providence, Rhode Island; her sister-in-law Dorothy Grimes Perry of Simsbury, Connecticut; and many nieces and nephews.
At her request there will be no funeral.
A memorial service will be held at a later date.
Contributions in her memory may be sent to the Barbara Terry Grimes Fund for Poetry at the Dover Public Library, 73 Locust Street, Dover, New Hampshire, 03820.
