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Gary Ronald Blackler
1999-09-02
Gary Ronald Blackler, 42, Waldoboro, died Aug. 31 at Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport. Gary was born Nov. 9, 1956 in Damariscotta, the son of Ronald F. and Louise Boggs Blackler. Gary grew up in Waldoboro and graduated from Medomak Valley High School in the Class of 1975. He married Susan Cook on December 16, 1972.
Gary worked for Dave's Restaurant as a cook for five years. He worked for Bath Iron Works for 22 years starting out as a shipfitter, then leadman, moldloft, and lastly as the planning production control planner.
Gary joined the Waldoboro Fire Department on Feb. 12, 1975. In April 1980 he was appointed to lieutenant and in July 1992 he was promoted to Captain. He had been a member of the fire department for 24 years. He was also a member of the Knox County Firefighters Association. He coached Little League and Babe Ruth for many years. Gary enjoyed watching his sons playing sports, and looked forward to watching his grandson. He enjoyed spending time with his family and friends, and especially riding in his boat. He also enjoyed woodworking, finish work, and anything mechanical. He was a self-sufficient man, and he always put others first, a true "giver."
Gary is survived by his wife of 26 years, Susan Cook Blackler of Waldoboro; sons Todd Blackler and Jason Blackler and his wife Daphanie of Waldoboro; brothers Gordon Blackler and his wife Lucille of South Thomaston, Gregory Blackler of Waldoboro, and Mark Blackler and his wife Tamara of Jefferson; sisters Barbara Gilbert-LaCount and her husband Donald of China and Jane B. Sprowl of Camden; grandson Zachary Blackler of Waldoboro; mother-in-law Beulah Cook of Friendship; and many nieces and nephews.
Visiting hours will be held from 7 to 9 p.m., Fri., Sept. 3 at the Hall Funeral Home, 949 Main St., Waldoboro. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Sat., Sept. 4 at the First Baptist Church, in Waldoboro. Rev. Robert Dorr will officiate. Burial will follow in Riverside Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to his memory to the Waldoboro Fire Department, P.O. Box J, Waldoboro 04572. Arrangements are under the direction of Hall Funeral Home.
Florence E. Blake
Florence E. Blake, 93, of East Boothbay, died Wednesday, December 13 at Miles Memorial Hospital.
A daughter of Leonard and Alice (Carter) Murphy, she was born October 16, 1907 in Round Pond. Following her marriage to Douglas Blake, the couple lived in East Boothbay for nearly 30 years.
She had a lifelong love for dancing, rarely missing a Saturday night.
Her husband predeceased her in 1992, as well as her daughter Margaret Collamore, her son Neil Prior, grandson Alan Collamore and great-granddaughter Lee Ann Pulsifer.
One daughter Lillian Bryant and son Leonard Prior of Bristol Mills, as well as 16 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren survive her.
Visiting hours and service were held on Saturday, December 16 at the Strong Funeral Home in Damariscotta. Rev. John Nickerson officiated. Burial followed at the Oak Hill cemetery in Round Pond.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Bristol First Responders, c/o Jeri Pendleton, New Harbor, ME 04554.
Dorothy L. Blake
1999-10-29
Dorothy L. Blake, 73, died last Friday at D'Youville Pavillion/Marcotte Nursing Home in Lewiston.
She was born in New Gloucester, August 27, 1926, the daughter of Cecil E. Libby and Frances P. Harrington Libby. She graduated from New Gloucester High School in 1944 and, later, Gray's Business School of Portland.
On June 7, 1947, she married Everett S. Blake. Mrs. Blake was employed by WW Morse Insurance, NT Fox Lumber, the State of Maine and Pineland Center. Her interests included auto racing, baseball, genealogy, camping, bird watching, playing the organ and piano, and singing. She was a longtime member of the First Congregational Church of New Gloucester. She also enjoyed traveling throughout the state with her husband while taking photos of almost every post office in Maine.
Surviving are her husband of 52 years, of New Gloucester; a daughter, Joanne P. Hutchison, of New Gloucester; a son, Everett Philip Blake, of New Gloucester; a brother, Edwin E. Libby, of New Gloucester; five grandchildren and 1 great-grandson. She was predeceased by a sister, Barbara F. (Libby) Lowe, of Gray.
A funeral was held at 10 A.M. on Tuesday at the First Congregational Church of New Gloucester. Arrangements were by Wilson Funeral Home, Gray.
Robert W. Blanchard
Robert Webster Blanchard, 71, of Concord, Wiscasset and Sarasota, Florida, died Friday, December 8 in Sarasota after a two-year battle with cancer.
Born on April 20, 1929 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, he was the son of the late Webster Lovelace Blanchard and Katharine (Cronan) Blanchard.
Mr. Blanchard attended Danvers Public Schools and graduated from Northeastern University. He received his MBA from the Crummer School of Business, Rollins College. He worked for the U.S. government for 40 years having served in the U.S. Army, and retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserve. He worked for NASA on the Gemini and Mercury Programs. In addition, he worked for NATO in The Hague and Brussels for 13 years as part of an international team for radar and defense systems. At the end of his career he was a Deputy Director of the Space and Missile Warning Systems Program at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado for the Mitre Corporation.
Mr. Blanchard had a great talent and interest in restoring old houses including an old farmhouse outside of Waterloo, Belgium, a family cottage on Wilson Pond in Winthrop, Maine and the most recent project was an 18th century house in Wiscasset, where he enjoyed working with his wife, Jane, at her antique business, Jeremiah Dalton House Antiques.
Survivors include his wife, Jane Crawford Blanchard of Concord; a daughter, Sarah Webster Blanchard of Sarasota, Fla.; a stepdaughter, Ceciley C. Pritchard of Concord; a brother, James W. (Tim) Blanchard, of Beverly, Mass.; and two grandchildren, Nicholas James and Theodore Robert Charts of Sarasota. He was predeceased by two sons, Conrad and Eric Blanchard.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 27 at 11 a.m. at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Wiscasset.
Contributions in his memory may be made to The Jimmy Fund, Attn.: The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, 1309 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02446.
Anne Blaney
2001-03-08
Anne Blaney, 69, Southport, died March 2 at Winship Green Nursing facility in Bath.
Mrs. Blaney was born in Lansdowne, Penn., on Aug. 6, 1931.
Her parents, the late Corwin and Helen Perisho, were both Quakers; her mother taught school and her father was a licensed architect, teacher and multi-talented artisan who worked in Poland and Hungary following Work War II for The Society of Friends (Quakers) and later helped construct a school and teach in Kenya with his wife. Following the family’s move to Ridewood, N.J., where Mrs. Blaney attended high school, she too went to Europe to assist in Quaker humanitarian efforts.
After high school Mrs. Blaney attended Oberlin College in Ohio where she received a degree in art history. About to embark on further art studies in France, she met Roy Blaney while waitressing for the summer on Cape Cod. The two married in 1952 in West Harwich, Mass. where her parents were then living. The newlyweds relocated to coastal Maine settling on Boothbay Harbor where Mrs. Blaney gave birth to the couple’s first of three children and Mr. Blaney began his long career as an independent wooden boat builder at the couple’s east-side property.
Mrs. Blaney, in addition to raising three children, was a talented seamstress, sewing a variety of clothing, wedding dresses and costumes for the local playhouse out of her family’s waterfront home. She read profusely and donated time to the Friends of the Library in Boothbay Harbor. Her life-long love and appreciation for art led her to sketch and paint her coastal Maine surroundings; she also played the piano, was an avid gardener and animal lover.
Mrs. Blaney also began to substitute teach and in 1977 became a full-time employee at the reading lab at the Boothbay Region Elementary School. In 1981 she moved with her husband and youngest son out of their east-side home aboard the Jenny Ives, a 37 foot ketch that Mr. Blaney had built for the family. After two years of living aboard and cruising out of the Boothbay area the family moved to their most recent residence on the Cross Road in Southport. Except for a few months leave of absence. Mrs. Blaney continued to teach, an occupation which had become a passion for her.
With her children moved away, Mrs. Blaney and her husband began to make more frequent excursions to Maine islands and began to explore the further reaches of the Canadian
Maritime coastline. She began to paint more seriously but, in 1989, she contracted the rare Wegener’s disease which destroyed her kidney function and forced her to retire from teaching. Despite being forced to spend three days a week on dialysis treatments in Portland and Bath for the remaining years of her life, and suffer from several mounting health complications she continued to garden, sew, and read avidly. Her grandchildren became the joy of her life.
Her husband died in July of 1999 and Mrs. Blaney continued to live in her home on Southport until October when a severe stroke forced her into Winship Green.
Survivors include a daughter, Joan B. Cook of Phippsburg; two son, Aaron Blaney of Southport and Eben Blaney of Portland; and five grandchildren. Memorial service March 25 at 1 p.m. at the Playhouse on Rt. 27 in Boothbay. It will be a Quaker service in which guests are invited to share thoughts and memories of Mrs. Blaney or simply reflect quietly and listen to the recollections of others. There will be a reception following.
Hazel W. Blaney
2000-06-22
Hazel Waltz Blaney, 94, Bremen, died June 16 at Shore Village in Rockland.
She was born at home in Boston, Mass on Jan. 6, 1906, the daughter of Leland and Eleanor (Story) Waltz. Hazel grew up in Milton, Mass., attended Milton Academy and the Massachusetts School of Art in Boston.
She worked in many art galleries developing her own artistic painting talent and was the Program Arranger of WNAE, a radio station in Boston.
She and her family used to travel by clipper ship and train from Boston to the mid-coast area to spend time at the old Waltz homestead on Dutch Neck (Waltz Point). Her family is part of the German heritage of the Waldoboro region.
The latter part of her life she resided in Bremen. Her love of art and animals were portrayed in her paintings. Hazel loved card games, her friends, and her neighbors dearly. She was very social, a real lady and was a devoted Episcopalian. She attended St. Andrews Church in Newcastle for many years.
“Among the angels, some are set in charge of nations, others are companions of the faithful.” (St. Basil)
She was predeceased by her second husband, Walter C. Blaney.
She is survived by nephew Richard MacRae of Scituate, Mass. and cousins Howard Geele of Phoenix, Ariz. and Nancy Waltz Dail and family of Waldoboro.
Graveside Service: June 22, 11 a.m., Dutch Neck Cemetery, Waldoboro, Rev. John Ineson officiating. Arrangements: Hall Funeral Home, Waldoboro.
Adelaide R. "Mickie" Blohm
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Adelaide R. “Mickie” Blohm of Waldoboro, wife of Kenneth B. Blohm, died July 6 at Penobscot Bay Medical Center after a long illness.
She was born in East Orange, NJ, daughter of Robert H. and Adelaide J. Schloss. After attending New Jersey schools, she moved with her parents to Maine where she resided in Damariscotta and Wiscasset for many years before moving with her children to Daytona Beach, Fla. in 1970. In 1994 she returned to Maine, along with her husband, to be close to her children and grandchildren.
She enjoyed
needlepoint
, knitting, crocheting, baking and was an avid reader. Family was very important to her and being surrounded by family brought such obvious joy to her life. Her thoughtfulness for others was neverending and those whose lives were touched by her appreciated the person she was and were richer for the experience.
As well as her husband Kenneth, she is survived by her son Alan and his wife Amy Lessner of Jefferson; daughter Ronda and husband William Brock of Waldoboro; stepson Karl Blohm of Iverness, Fla.; sister Madeline Corcoran of Daytona Beach, Fla.; grandchildren Katherine, Nicholas and Hillary Lessner of Jefferson; Kristin and Megan Brock of Waldoboro, and Kristopher, Krystal, Karla and Kimberly Blohm of Edgewater, Fla.; nephew Jeffrey and wife Jacqueline Corcoran; and grand niece and grand nephews of Mt. Tabor, NJ, as well as many friends.
At her request there will be no visiting hours. A private family memorial service will be held in her honor. If desired, memorial donations may be made to the American Diabetes Assn., 10 Bangor Ave., Augusta 04330.
Ethel A. Bomengen
2000-12-28
Ethel A. Bomengen, 88, Newcastle, died at Chase Point Assisted Living in Damariscotta, on December 25. She had resided there since August 1999.
Born July 15, 1912 to George Ernest and Bessie C. Moore Affleck. She lived in Waltham, Mass.
Ethel graduated from Waltham High School in 1930 with Honors. She studied business and worked at Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in Boston, Mass.
In 1939, Ethel married Allen Bomengen, a widower with two daughters, Judith Lee and Barbara Ann. Lois Virginia and Richard Allen were added to the family. They were members of Beth Eden Baptist Church, which Ethel’s forefathers founded. The entire family was very active in the life of the church. Ethel enjoyed arranging the flowers for Sunday service as well as weddings. She directed Sacred Plays, designed sets and her mother was the costume seamstress. She sang in the choir, taught Sunday school, played the piano and she and Allen were involved with the Couples Group.
Ethel and Allen moved to Lincoln Mass. in 1961. She worked at Waltham Hospital. During her time there she studied for and received her ART while working in medical records. Ethel was later promoted to the position of Assistant Director of the Medical Records Department. She retired from Waltham Hospital after 25 years at age 70.
Ethel was active in the Waltham Evangelical Free Church where she was involved in Pioneer Girls Club, Missions, Sunday school and Women’s groups.
Allen passed away in 1971. Shortly after this Ethel sold their home in Lincoln and moved to Stow, Mass. to be with her daughter and son-in-law Lois and Bill Ellsworth. She spent many happy hours with her grandchildren, volunteering her time reading to the blind, caring for shut-ins. In 1984 Ethel moved to Maine with Lois and Bill making her home at the Franklin School Apartments in Newcastle, where she lived for 12 years. Ethel’s retirement years in Maine were happily spent visiting all the wonderful places along the Maine Coast with her family and friends, especially to Pemaquid Lighthouse, her favorite spot. She attended the Sheepscot Valley Church, cared for the plants at a local nursing home and was always ready to help others in their time of need.
Ethel leaves many loved ones, they include her 4 children, Judy Kelley of Hampton Falls, N.H., Barbara Hollis and husband George, of Amherst, N.H., Lois Ellswirth and husband Bill of Bristol, and Dick Bomengen and wife Heidi of Kilington, Vt. She leaves 11 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren. Many nieces and nephews.
She will be laid to rest at the Grove Hill Cemetery, Waltham. Memorial service Waltham Evangelical Free Church on Bruce Rd, (Warrendale) Waltham, Mass. 2 p.m. December 28. Arrangements are under the care of the Strong Funeral Home, Damariscotta.
Alice Evelyn Bonney
2000-11-16
NORWAY - Alice Evelyn Bonney, 96, of Norway died Monday morning at the Norway Rehabilitation and Living Center.
She was born in Sumner,February 11, 1904, the daughter of Charlie and Alma Farrar Buck. She was educated in Sumner and Buckfield High School.
She married Carl Bonney of Sumner,in 1936. He died August 22, 1968 in South Paris.
Most of her working days were in Paris. Mrs. Bonney was a hard worker who helped lots of people.
In her early years she worked in Massachusetts and upon returning worked as a telephone operator in Sumner and Buckfield. Later she was a U.S. Mail carrier, a clerk in area stores,an extension food leader in Buckfield and South Paris and a 4-H leader in Buckfield. She headed the first meal site for the elderly in South Paris, which she managed for 13 years until her health failed.
She was a member of many groups including the former Pleasant Pond Grange, Oxford County Senior Citizens, charter member of the Norway-Paris senior citizens, a member of the Thaliean Club, the Ladies Cirlce and the First Congregational Church in South Paris, the Daughters of Union Veterans and the National Society of the Old Plymouth Colony Decendents of the Mayflower in Plymouth, MA and the Portland Garden Club.
Survivors include a daughter Roberta Kennagh of Norway; four grandchildren Brenda Billings of Norway, Elizabeth Dunham of Jupiter, FL; Bradley Kennagh of Oxford and John Kennagh of Seattle, WA; seven great grandchildren; six great great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Bonney was predeceased by a sister, Alma Abbott.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Weston-Chandler Funeral Home, South Paris with Rev. Mark Hatfield officiating.
Interment was in Pleasant Pond Cemetery,West Sumner. Family and friends called at the funeral home Tuesday evening.
