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Gertrude M. Coffin
1998-07-09
WOODSTOCK Gertrude M. Coffin, 86, died Saturday, July 4, 1998 at her residence.
Born on August 4, 1911 on Paris Hill, she was the daughter of the late Forrie and Emma (Coffren) Everett. She received her education in the Paris School, graduating with the class of 1929 from South Paris High School. She married Arthur Coffin on April 1, 1930, who predeceased her.
Shortly after marrying, Mrs. Coffin moved with her husband to Woodstock to raise their family. She took great pride in raising her six children. After her children were grown, she continued child rearing by assisting her children by baby-sitting her grandchildren, For many years she served as a foster mother to many children.
A member of the Bryant Pond Baptist Church, she found enjoyment in canning vegetables, which she shared with her family and friends. She will be remembered as a women who loved children.
Surviving are four sons, Robert of West Paris, Fred Sr. of Waterford, Arthur Jr. of Mt. Pleasant, North Carolina, and Lawrence of North Woodstock; two daughters, Joan Davis of Harrison and Patricia Bean of South Paris; a brother, Clarence Everett of Oxford; a sister, Sylvia Goddard of Mechanic Fall;, 25 grandchildren; 43 great-grandchildren, seven great-great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by five brothers, Edgar, Clint, Dennis, Raymond and Walter; a sister, Mildred Richardson and a grandson, David Coffin.
Those who wish may make donations in Gertrude's memory to the American Cancer Society, Maine Division, 52 Federal Street, Brunswick, ME 04011.
Funeral services for Mrs. Coffin were held on Tuesday, July 7 at 11 a.m. at the Lakeside Cemetery, Bryant Pond. Officiating at the services were the Revs. Mr. Roland Lord and Mr. Linwood Hanson.
Those who wish may make donations in Gertrude's memory to the American Cancer Society, Maine Division, 52 Federal Street, Brunswick, ME 04011.
Arrangements were under the care of the Andrews Funeral Home, South Woodstock.
Hubert W. Jim Coffin
1999-03-04
NORWAY - Hubert W. Jim Coffin, 84, Sebago, died Thursday, February 25, at Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway.
He was born in Caribou on December 15, 1914, the son of John and Hazel Sharpe Coffin.
He attended grammar school in Caribou and the Shaker School at Sabbathday Lake. He attended Goodwill High School in Hinkley.
Mr. Coffin graduated Cum Laude from Bowdoin College in 1938. He also graduated from Harvard Law School with a Doctorate in Law in 1941.
After college he served in the U.S. Navy as a Lieutenant in WW II, working from 1942-1945 in Communications and Officer of the Deck. As an Attorney at Law, he was a partner in the firm of Kingston, Coffin and Costello in Somerville, MA from 1946 to his retirement in June of 1979. He lived in Arlington, MA for 21 years before returning to Sebago in 1979.
He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Bowdoin College, Somerville Bar Association, Boston Bar Association, Middlesex Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, Massachusetts Trial Lawyers Association, member of the Land Court Examiners, Charter Member for the Melrose Chapter of Amvets, Charter member of the Exchange Club in Somerville, MA and a life member of the Disabled American Veterans of Portland, located in Gorham.
Mr. Coffin was predeceased by his wife, Helen Kyllonen Coffin. Survivors include two sisters, Ruth A. Mills of Reading, MA and Florence C. Offenbach of Cupertino, CA; one brother, John W. Coffin of Sykesville, MD and several nieces and nephews.
There will be no visiting hours. A graveside service will be held in the spring. Burial will be in the Haley cemetery in Sebago. Arrangements were made by Hay & Peabody Funeral Home of Portland.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Androscoggin Home Health, Pottle Rd, Oxford, ME 04270.
Maybelle Hersey Colburn
1999-08-19
CONCORD, MA - Maybelle Hersey Colburn of Concord, Massachusetts, formerly of Wakefield, died at Newbury Court, Concord on August 4, 1999.
She was the wife of the late Warren Edward Colburn who died in 1978.
Born in North Waterford on October 27, 1917, Mrs. Colburn was the daughter of the late Charles Alvin and Carrie Kingsbury Hersey and grew up at Beech Hill Farm in North Waterford. She, along with her father and her six brothers and sisters, graduated from Bridgton Academy.
After graduating from Bridgton in 1935, she attended Rhode Island State College (now the University of Rhode Island) and received her B.S. in 1939 from Boston University. She was married April 30, 1938. During the war, she worked as a laboratory chemist. She lived for 50 years in Wakefield, MA before moving to Concord in 1995.
Mrs. Colburn was a member of the First Baptist Church of Wakefield, the Melrose-Wakefield Hospital Auxiliary, the YMCA Auxiliary, the Society of Mayflower Descendants and the Arnold Expedition Historical Society and was a volunteer at Emerson Hospital in Concord, MA. She had recently attended her 64th year Bridgton Academy reunion.
She is survived by her three children, Lois Carolyn Colburn of Hopkinton, MA and her daughter Carolyn Beth Carson of Westford, MA; Warren Edward (Ted) Colburn, Jr. of Mystic, Connecticut, and his wife Rebecca Colburn and their children Hannah Eve Colburn and Jamie Lynn Richardson of Mystic, Connecticut; and Kenneth Hersey Colburn, his wife Virginia Ventura Colburn and their children, Elizabeth Ventura Colburn and Edward Daniel Colburn of Dover, MA.
She was the sister of Mary Hersey Hilkey of Cedaredge, CO, Alfred Ezra Hersey of Providence, RI, Alvin Kingsbury Hersey of Kennebunk, ME, Dr. Charles William (Bill) Hersey of Rumford, ME and the late Louise Hersey Loring and Leroy Harlan Hersey.
Twenty-seven nieces and nephews, among them Paul Kingsbury Hersey of North Waterford, as well as numerous grandnieces and grandnephews also survive her.
Memorial services will be held in Duvall Chapel, New England Deaconess Association at Rivercrest, (next to Emerson Hospital at Route 2, Concord) Concord on Sunday, August 22, 1999 at 4:30 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, gifts in her memory may be sent to Emerson Hospital - Transition Care Unit, c/o Development Office, Concord, MA 01742 or the Maine Seacoast Missionary Society, 127 West Street, Bar Harbor, ME 04609.
Rhonda J. Colby
1999-02-11
LEWISTON - Rhonda J. Colby, 39, of Minot died Saturday evening, February 6, at D'Youville Pavilion after a courageous battle with cancer.
She was born in Farmington on June 23,1959, the daughter of Herbert M. and Carole Lisherness Colby.
She graduated from Oxford Hills High School and was a master carpenter, having built homes and furniture. Ms. Colby was currently employed at Sabre Yachts.
She was a member of the VFW Auxiliary Post 9459 in Lisbon and attended the Universalist-Unitarian Church in Auburn. She enjoyed
hunting
,fishing,gardening and the outdoors.
Survivors include her son, Cory J.Colby, of Minot; her life partner, Julie Hutchison, of Minot; her mother and step father, Carole Colby and Stanley Rowe, of East Oxford; four sisters, Kathy Brown of North Norway, Debbie Colby of Vero Beach,FL, Cindy Douglas of Hebron, Karen Rolfe of Norway; three brothers, Randall Colby of Norway, Kevin Colby of Canaan and Terry Colby of New Gloucester, an adopted brother Craig Colby of Lewiston.
In lieu of flowers, those who wish may make memorial gifts in her memory to Cory Colby, 261 Penney St., New Gloucester, ME, 04260.
Weston-Chandler Funeral Home, Mechanic Falls was in charge of arrangements.
Marion Cole
2000-01-13
Marion Cole, 91, of East Boothbay died at home on Thursday, January 6. She was born in Marinette, Wisconsin on January 19, 1908, the daughter of Lars John and Olivia Nelson Sten. The revolutionary changes in living conditions that took place in the near-century in which she lived, particularly those in communications and transportation, were of special interest to her. She remembered as a child listening to her first radio broadcast when reception was more crackling noise than speech. She saw her first talking motion picture when she was in college. Television, of course, came many years later.
When she was five years old, her mother boarded a train in Wisconsin with seven children, one of them a year-old baby, headed for Oregon. The 2000-mile trip took six days and five nights. More impressive to her than the train was her first automobile ride. An automobile had taken the family to the railroad station. However, she and her older brother, John, had their noses pressed to the windows of the train during most of the six-day trip, particularly interested in the vastness of the Great Plains, now and then a rare automobile and Indians riding horses bareback.
In Oregon, her father, a lumberman, had chosen the town of St. Helens as a good site to operate a lumber mill. She grew up in the shadow of Mount St. Helens, a peaceful mountain which resembled an ice cream cone but which on May 18, 1980, became a terrible volcano. The town of St. Helens was 30 miles due west of the mountain, across the Columbia River. She never forgot the great river or "her" mountain.
Her father had rented the oldest house in town to be their first home in the west. It was built of lumber which had been brought by ship from the east coast around Cape Horn. Oregon had the largest stand of virgin timber then extant in the United States but mills to process the logs were few. The Panama Canal was not yet in service so the lumber had a long voyage. She was an early patron of airplanes as a means of transportation. Just two years before she was born, the Wright Brothers managed to get an airplane off the ground. In 1931, she flew from Los Angeles to Chicago to attend the USC-Notre Dame football game. To her delight, being one of the few USC fans in the stadium, USC won. The first leg of her trip, to Salt Lake City, took six hours. On the cross country trip, the plane made several stops for fuel. The trip was scheduled to take 24 hours but it took much longer due to storms.
Mrs. Cole had B.A. and M.A. degrees from Stanford University and the University of Oregon. Her first as a journalist was with the Southern California Newspapers Associated.
In 1932, having scraped together $1,000, she went to Europe to travel as long as the money held out, sending back an occasional story to newspapers and magazines. The only means of trans-ocean transportation then was a ship and on the way to Plymouth, England on the Statendam of the Holland-American Line, she met Dana Stuart Cole of Boston and East Boothbay, who was going to Europe for a year to study architecture and design. They arranged to meet in several cities and were married in Paris on December 24, 1932. Her $1,000 had lasted eight months and carried her through England, the Scandinavian countries, Germany, France and Spain.
When they both returned to the United States, they made their home in New York City where she was to reside for 47 years. In N.Y.C., she worked for the Hearst newspapers, first The American, and later The Journal-American. She also conducted a weekly radio interview program on Station WMCA. Dana Stuart Cole died in December 1958.
Her first visit to Maine and East Boothbay was in 1934 as a guest of her husband's father, William H. Cole. They vacationed here almost every summer to the time of W. H. Cole's death in 1952, when they purchased the old William Murray farm from the estate. In 1980, she became a year-round resident of East Boothbay.
She was a member of The Friends of the Memorial Library, the YMCA Senior Fitness Class, Phi Beta Kappa, and in New York City, a founding member of The Sisters of Loose Habits.
She is survived by a son, Dana Stuart Cole of Ellensburg, Washington; a daughter, Olivia Cole Hauptfleisch, and a grandson, John Oliver Cole Hauptfleisch, both of East Boothbay.
By her request, there will be no funeral or memorial service.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Friends of the Memorial Library, Oak Street, Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538.
Robert S. Cole
1998-10-15
NORWAY Robert S. Cole, 91, of Bethel, died Friday night October 9, 1998, at Stephens Memorial Hospital, where he had been a patient.
Born in Greenwood on September 6, 1907, he was the son of the late Stanton R. and Clara A. (Cole) Cole.
He received his education from the Greenwood schools. He married the former Ella Hanscom in May 1927, she predeceased him in 1970. He later married the former Edna Young in October 1970, who also predeceased him in 1973.
Mr. Cole worked as a machine tender at the E. L. Tibbets Spool Co., and later as a fork lift operator at the Ekco Housewares, Inc. both of Locke Mills. After retiring from Ekco Housewares he work at Mt. Abram's Ski Resort as a lift operator.
A member of the Locke Mills Union Church, he also held membership in the Locke Mills Men's Club, Franklin Grange 124 of Bryant Pond and he was a 50-year. Member of the Knights of Pythias of Bryant Pond, serving as Chancellor Commander for five years.
An avid gardener, he enjoyed playing cards, following baseball, especially the Red Sox. He most especially enjoyed his small farm on Howe Hill and visiting friends and sharing history of days gone by, usually about the happenings of Locke Mills, which he always considered his home town even though he had resided in Bethel for close to 20 years.
Mr. Cole is survived by two stepsons, Donald Young of La Mesa, CA and Loren Young of Jacksonville, FL and several nieces and nephews along with a special cousin, Charlotte Cole, of Greenwood. He was predeceased by both wives; a brother, Willard; and two sisters, Ida Lurvey and L. Dorothy Durgin.
Funeral services were held at Tuesday, October 13, at the Locke Mills Union Church. Interment was in the Riverside Cemetery, Bethel. Arrangements were under the direction of Andrews Funeral Home, South Woodstock. Those who wish may make donations in Mr. Cole's memory to the Locke Mills Union Church, c/o Kathleen Bean, 222 Gore Rd., Bryant Pond, ME 04219.
Hazel I. Collette
1999-07-01
West Paris - Hazel I. (Kimball) Collette, 91, formerly of Paris Hill Road, South Paris, widow of Charles Pete Collette, died early evening Tuesday, June 22, 1999, at the Ledgeview Nursing Home, where she had been a patient for the past several years.
Mrs. Collette was born in Gilead, ME, the daughter of the late William and Mary (Griffin) Kimball.
She attended Gilead schools, and the Abbey, of Sherbrook, P.Q., Canada
, graduating from Gould Academy in Bethel.
She married Charles N. Pete Collette,Nov. 6, 1928, at White River Junction, Vermont. He pre-deceased her in 1992.
A homemaker by vocation, she was also active in the operation of the Trap Corner Garage, West Paris, with her husband Pete, for many years.
Mrs. Collette was a communicant of St. Catherine of Sienna, of Norway, and attended St. Mary's of Oxford, during the summer months, and was a former member of the Senior Citizens of St. Mary Magdalen, of Wilmington, DE.
Mrs. Collette is survived by a son, Peter Collette, of South Paris; two daughters: Anita Talley, of South Paris, and Wilmington, DE, and Patricia Lenza, of Saratoga Springs, NY; 14 grandchildren, many great grandchildren, and a nephew.
Relatives and friends were invited to call at the Dew Drop Inn, 843 Paris Hill Rd., S. Paris, Friday evening. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebratedat St. Catherine of Sienna, Norway, Saturday with Interment in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Route 26, South Paris.
Friends who wish may make memorial donations in her memory to: The Children's Fund, Stephens Memorial Hospital, Main St., Norway, ME 04268.
Arrangements were under the care of the Andrews Funeral Home, South Woodstock.
