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Maria J. Karatkey
October 08, 2005
Kennebunk
Maria J. Karatkey, 82, of Penney Lane, died Saturday at Southern Maine Medical Center. She was born in Germany on September 14, 1923.
Maria was a factory worker for many years.
She was a member of the Red Hat Ladies.
Maria had no known survivors.
She was a special friend to Lisa Varano and her family, who befriended her in South Carolina.
There are no calling hours. A Memorial Service will be held on Tuesday, October 11 at 2:00 p.m. at Bibber Memorial Chapel, 67 Summer Street, Kennebunk. Interment will be in Arlington National Cemetery, where she will join her late husband.
Martha Gandy Fales
February 24, 2006
Kennebunk
Martha Gandy Fales passed away peacefully Feb. 24, 2006.
Born in Clarksburg, W.VA. Oct. 31, 1930, she was the daughter of Preston and Martha Gandy. She received her B.A. from Wilson College in PA. in 1952; her M.A. from the University of Delaware 1954 in the first class of graduates in The Winterthur Program in Early American Culture and an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from Wilson College in 1987.
She started her career first as Assistant Curator and later Keeper of the
Silver at the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum in Delaware.
In 1956 she married Dean A. Fales Jr. a leading and recognized authority of American Antique furniture. Together they lead a life that gave them international recognition in their respective fields.
In 1960, Mrs. Fales was appointed Honorary Curator of Silver and Jewelry of the Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.
She is the author of EARLY AMERICAN SILVER first published in 1970 with 3 subsequent printings, JOS. RICHARDSON and FAMILY. PHILADELPHIA SILVERSMITHS pub. 1974, AMERICAN SILVER in the HENRY du PONT WINTERTHUR MUSEUM, and with Henry Flint THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION with BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF N. ENGLAND SILVERSMITHS 1625 to 1825. She has contributed numerous articles on the American Decorative Arts to Antiques magazines, Connoisseur and other periodicals.
Mrs. Fales has served as Overseer of Strawberry Banks, Portsmouth, N.H., board of trustees and President of the Brick Store Museum , Kennebunk, ME.
After returning to Maine, Mrs. Fales along with her husband co-founded New England Antiquarian Research. She provided research to the Boston Museum of Science, Colonial Williamsburg, Bowdoin College and many others. She has served as an advisor for numerous historic homes in PA., Virginia and New England.
In 1995, after 15 years of research, Mrs. Fales published JEWELRY IN AMERICA 1600 to 1900. She considered this research to be “a veritable treasure hunt, no less exciting than an archaeological expedition”. In 1996 The Antiques Collectors Club awarded Mrs. Fales the prestigious Charles F. Montgomery Prize for “The most distinguished contribution to the study of American decorative arts”, for JEWERY IN AMERICA. JEWELRY IN AMERICA is used as a reference for art and social historians, curators, students, and collectors. Many of the jewelry pieces were collected by Mr. and Mrs. Fales during their 40 yrs. of world wide travel. Their personal collection was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. With the collection rich in style and techniques it becomes “one of the most important and comprehensive surveys anywhere of jewelry made and owned in America”.
Mrs. Fales was predeceased by her husband Dean A. Fales and her brother Preston.
She is survived by a nephew John Fales Edwards and his wife Cynthia of Trevett, Me., sister-in-law Katie, nephews Dean and Forrest and niece Heather Gandy.
A true lady of inordinate dignity and stature, affectionately known as
M’Lou, will be missed by all who knew and loved her and those with whom she worked in her extraordinary life.
A Memorial service by the family will be held on Saturday, June 24th at 10:30 a.m. in the chapel at Newton Cemetery, Newton Center, Mass. Arrangements by Bibber Memorial Chapel, 67 Summer Street, Kennebunk, ME 04043.
Mary Jane Parker
November 05, 2005
Rochester, NH
Dateline – Rochester, NH
Mary Jane Parker, 79, of Mill Street, died suddenly Saturday evening at Frisbee Memorial Hospital. She was born in Westport, Maine on May 1, 1926, a daughter of Robert T. and Mary Jane Routh Greenleaf. She graduated from Westport area schools.
Mary was formerly a Nurse’s Aid at Rochester Manor, Dover Manor, and Sunbridge Healthcare of Rochester. She loved to cook, spend time with her friends, and loved to watch birds, especially her little bird “Buae”.
She was pre-deceased by her husband, Francis Parker, in 1971; her daughter, Donna L. Knight in 1981; 4 brothers: James, Robert, and Albert Greenleaf of Westport, and Gilbert Greenleaf of Bath; 1 sister: Ida F. Colby
Survivors include:
one sister, Mrs. Leland (Betty) Brown of FL
her close family friend, Leo P. LaCouture of Rochester.
Visiting hours will be held from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday and 10-11 a.m. Wednesday at Laing-Bibber Funeral Chapel, 36 Rochester Street, Berwick, ME. A funeral service will follow at 11:00 a.m. Burial will be in Pine Hill Cemetery, Dover, NH. Arrangements by Laing-Bibber Funeral Chapel, 36 Rochester St., Berwick.
Mary Lowell Curtis Jaquith
February 24, 2006
Kennebunk
Mary Lowell Curtis Jaquith passed away peacefully in her sleep on Friday, February 24, 2006 at Bradford on the Common, Kennebunk, after a brief illness. She was in her 96th year.
The only daughter of Carroll Cary Curtis and Molly Paige Lowell, Mary was born on August 12, 1910 in her parents’ home in Watertown, MA but lived much of her life in Barrington, RI and at her summer home on Peaks Island, ME. She had recently moved back to Kennebunk after living for several years at the former Eunice Frye home in Portland, where she was a strong supporter and long time trustee, and which has since been purchased by the Sisters of Mercy of the Portland Regional Community in 2003.
Mary was married in October 1955 to the late Dana W. Jaquith (Colby College, 1935) of Peaks Island and Barrington, RI and who was employed by Tucker Anthony, a Providence, RI stock brokerage firm, until his death on Peaks Island in August, 1989.
Mary considered herself to be a Portland native having lived most of her early years there and having graduated from Portland High School and nearby Gorham State Teachers College in 1934. She had been an active member of the Barrington (RI) Congregational Church, State Street Church, Portland, and for many years a member, and strong supporter of Brackett Memorial Church, Peaks Island. Her benevolence knew few bounds such as, while a resident of the Eunice Frye home, she outfitted all apartments with air conditioning units when the summers became too hot for the residents to tolerate. And, for nearly 25 years, she was the teacher to, and constant companion of, Emily Hart Payson, a mentally challenged member of that illustrious and prominent Maine family. Mary was blessed with a loving sense of humor that she often used to engage and delight her friends, family, and medical staff right to the end of her life.
Being very proud of her heritage, Mary was an active member of the Society of Mayflower Descendents in the State of Maine as well as the grandniece of the former governor of Maine and mayor of Portland, Oakley C. Curtis. She delighted in keeping in touch with far-flung family members and would revel in discovering a seemingly lost cousin, who a relative or friend might locate, and with whom she could then communicate. Her many activities included golfing in her earlier years, reading, traveling which she did extensively, and singing in church and secular choirs over the decades. She additionally thoroughly enjoyed gardening especially on her beloved Peaks Island at the summer home that she and Dana designed and built in the late 1950’s on a gorgeous point of land with unobstructed views of islands with the Atlantic beyond.
Although having never experienced the joys of motherhood, Mary leaves behind three devoted children by her brother William L.: Thomas H. L. Curtis of North Weymouth, MA, William L. Curtis of Hackettstown, NJ, and Margaret C. Hambrecht of River Edge, NJ. In addition, she leaves two first cousins, Mrs. Charles (Elizabeth Lowell) Ryland of Warsaw, VA and Mrs. Kels (Mary Lowell) Boland, of Bethesda, MD and Duxbury, MA, a sister-in-law, Marjorie Curtis of Portland as well as 9 grandnieces and grandnephews, and 14 great grandnieces and grandnephews.
No funeral arrangements have been scheduled but, in accordance with her wishes, during the summer of 2006 there will be a memorial service in her memory on Peaks Island at Brackett Memorial Church.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in the name of her nephew, Edward C. Hambrecht to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021.
Max H. Andrews
October 31, 2005
Kennebunk, ME
Max Holt Andrews, 82, of Huntington Common, died Monday afternoon at Southern Maine Medical Center.
He was born in Ellsworth, Maine on May 9, 1923 to the Reverend Zebedee and Myrtle (Bradley) Andrews.
During his youth, he lived in Lincoln, Cape Porpoise, West Scarborough, Searsport, Randolph, Ogunquit and Union: towns where his father served as Methodist minister. He graduated from Gardiner (ME) High School, Class of 1939, and Coburn Classical Institute, Waterville 1940. He entered Springfield College with the Class of 1944. At Springfield he was active in student activities, freshman football, and four years of varsity Lacrosse. He formed a dance orchestra, the “Quintones” that played colleges, YWCAs and clubs in the western Massachusetts area.
In Dec. 1942, he enlisted in the US Army Air Force and ultimately served with the 9th AAF in England, France, Germany and received 4 medals, one with the oak leaf cluster for the Battle of the Bulge.
After the war in Europe was won he attended the Sorbonne, Paris and Biarritz American University in Biarritz, France as part of the AAF program to continue education while awaiting reassignment to Japan.
He returned to Springfield receiving his B.S. degree and M.Ed. degree in 1947.
At this time he met his future wife Jane White Tippett of Longmeadow, Mass., and they married in 1948.
Son John was born in 1949 and Son James in 1952.
His first professional job in 1948 was at the University of Connecticut-Hartford where he was an Instructor of Speech and Drama, Director of Student Activities, Athletic Director and coach of Basketball and Baseball. In the fall he served as coach of football at the Connecticut State Prison in Wethersfield, CT. In 1952 he was selected to head up the planning and organization of the new UCONN Student Union Building at Storrs. He served as director until 1956 when he was invited to plan and monitor the construction of the Loeb Student Center at New York University, located on Washington Square at the foot of 5th Ave. The Center was the social, cultural and recreational center of the University. In 1966 he was invited to plan and supervise construction of the new Student Union at Queens College, City University of New York. During his career in the College Union field, he was active in the professional organization “The Association of College Union International” (ACUI).
He served as chairperson of many important committees and was elected President for 1963-1964. That same year, he received a University Citation, the equivalent of an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Buffalo for “outstanding contribution to the field of student personnel administration.”
In 1970 he received the Butts-Whiting Award, the highest award given by ACUI for leadership in the profession. During his career, he served as consultant on planning and construction of college unions, residence halls, and recreation facilities at some 80 college and universities in the USA, Canada
, and Puerto Rico.
He was particularly proud of serving on President Kennedy’s Commission on Physical Fitness and as a consultant for the Ford Foundation on student personnel issues at predominantly black colleges and universities.
In 1976, Max and wife Jane left Westport, CT for full time in Kennebunkport. They had a home on Chase Hill for many years. They bought the Maine Stay Inn and Cottages. While Jane managed the Inn, Max worked as assistant director of the Portland School of Art (now the Maine College of Art) until full retirement in 1985. He then served on the Board of Trustees until 1992.
One of their many joys in their early years was following their sons’ athletic and art activities.
In retirement years, they thoroughly enjoyed following their grandchildren’s activities. While at the University of Connecticut, he was a member of Theta Xi, and was a founding member of the Storrs CT Lions Club. He was a former member of the Cape Arundel Golf Club.
He is survived by his wife of 57 years, of Kennebunk; two sons: John and wife Judy, and James and Wife Debbie, all of Arundel; grandchildren Zebedee and wife Katie of Scarborough; Abra Andrews of Sanford, and Dylan Andrews and his partner, Heidi Brown, of Sanford; and Page of Syracuse University; two great-grandchildren: Jack and Keegan Andrews of Scarborough.
There are no visiting hours. A graveside service will be held on Saturday, November 5, at 12:00 noon at Hope Cemetery, Route 1, Kennebunk with the Rev. Dr. Burton S. Howe officiating.
If desired, memorial donations may be made in his name to: Maine College of Art, 97 Spring Street, Portland, ME. 04101.
Ray Victor Chase
February 26, 2006
Wells
Wells- Ray Victor Chase, 94 years, of Ocean Avenue, Wells died Sunday February 26 surrounded by his family.
Ray was born in Wells, ME on October 10, 1911 a son of Harold and Ora Wormwood Chase. He attended local schools and applied his skills to carpentry. Ray served his country in the Army as a Sergeant during World War II.
Ray was the oldest lifelong resident of Wells. He was the Grand Marshall at the 350th Wells parade, which he was proud of.
Ray enjoyed keeping busy, he was never one to sit around. He was always looking for a project to do. He would putter around his house and yard all day long. He actually earned a little local notoriety when at the age of 88 he fell off a ladder and broke his leg while painting the back of the workshop. Ray also enjoyed
hunting
, camping, and traveling.
His brothers Merle Chase and Carl Chase and sisters Marion Oliver and Emily Chick predecease Ray.
His wife of 64 years Marion Guest Chase, sons Reginald Chase and Ronald Chase of Wells and Barry Chase of North Berwick; brothers Forrest Chase and Daniel Chase of Wells; sister Jane Clem of Fort Walton Beach, FL; 12 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren survive Ray.
There will be a Memorial Graveside Service at Ocean View cemetery in the spring.
Should friends desire memorial donations may be made to:
Alzheimer’s Association
163 Lancaster Street
Suite 160B
Portland, Maine 04101-2406
Raymond C. Colley
February 19, 2006
Wells, ME
Dateline – Wells
Raymond C. Colley, 73, of Stewart Street, died Sunday, February 19, 2006 at his residence. He was born in Fredericksburg, VA on August 30, 1932, a son of Alred and Vera (Hiatt) Colley. His primary education was in Fredericksburg schools. He earned a BS degree from The College of William and Mary.
On August 24, 1957, he married Joanne Naves in Marlboro, MA.
Raymond was an engineer for Raytheon for 35 years, retiring in 1992. He lived in Marlboro, MA for many years, and moved to Wells, ME in 1992. He proudly served his country in the US Navy during the Korean conflict. He was a member of the Wells Historical Society, the Astronomy Society of Northern New England, and the Laudholm Trust.
He was pre-deceased by a sister: Sara Koontz; a brother: Charles Colley; and a half-brother: Alred G. Colley.
Survivors include:
his loving wife of 48 years, of Wells
2 sons: Scott Colley and his wife Sally of Templeton, MA
Thomas Colley and his wife Elizabeth of Lancaster, MA
2 daughters: Julie Carter of Wells, ME
Nancy de Fiebre and her husband Christopher of Fort
Worth, TX
1 brother: Willard Colley of Seal Beach, CA
3 grandchildren: Jennifer and Jeffrey Carter of Wells, and Kurt de Fiebre of Fort Worth
There are no visiting hours. A Funeral Service will take place on Thursday, February 23 at 2:00 p.m. at Bibber Memorial Chapel, 111 Chapel Road, Wells. Spring burial will be in Ocean View Cemetery, Wells. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in his name to: The American Cancer Society, 1 Main St., Suite 300, Topsham, ME 04086. Arrangements by Bibber Memorial Chapel 111 Chapel Road, Wells.
Regina K. Goodwin
October 01, 2005
Kennebunk
Kennebunk- Regina K. Goodwin, 90 years, died Saturday, October 01, 2005 at River Ridge Center for Rehabilitation in Kennebunk, ME.
Regina was born in Cambridge, MA on June 6, 1915, the daughter of Frank and Etta Keenan. She graduated from Winchester High School in Winchester, MA in 1933. She married Kenneth M. Goodwin in 1946.
Regina worked for many years as an accountant for the Shawmut Inn in Kennebunkport, ME.
Regina and Kenneth enjoyed the ocean. They were among the original founders of the Arundel Yacht Club and enjoyed many of the activities that were planned there. Regina also enjoyed a good game of Bridge, reading (she was often at the Kennebunk Free Library and also worked there for many years), and traveling to Florida.
She is predeceased by her husband, Kenneth, her son Kenneth M. Goodwin, Jr.; and her daughter Joan Cheesebro, her brothers Francis Keenan of Bristol NH and James Keenan of Bradenton, FL; her sister Agnes Keenan of Amherst, NH; and two grand children Joan Cheesebro and William Goodwin.
Surviving Regina are her son and daughter-in-law Donald and Andrina Goodwin of New Gloucester, ME; son-in-law Bruce Cheesebro of North Adams, MA; and daughter-in-law Leona Goodwin of Hiram, ME; 8 grandchildren; 9 great grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Friends may call from 6-8 pm Tuesday, October 4 at Bibber Memorial Chapel, 67 Summer Street, Kennebunk, ME. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Wednesday, October 5 at 10 am with Father LaPlante at St. Martha’s Church in Kennebunk. Interment will follow in St. Patrick’s cemetery in Amherst, NH.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the:
American Heart Association
343 Gorham Road
South Portland, Me 04106
or
American Diabetes Association
163 Lancaster Street
Suite 98R
Portland, Maine 04101
