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Clifford Cleland Kinney
2001-04-24
Clifford Cleland “Cle” Kinney, 85, Belfast, died May 7 at his home. born in 1915 in Victoria, British Columbia of a seafaring family. He grew up in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and Medford, Massachusetts.P A career art director, Mr. Kinney worked for various New York advertising agencies; he co-authored many books and was an accomplished and well-received painter. A 28 year resident of New Milford, Connecticut, Mr. Kinney served eight years on the New Milford planning commission; he was a founding member of the Housatonic Art League and at one time served as president of the Merryall Center for the Arts.
A notable project of Mr. Kinney was the conversion to a residence of the Gaylordsville Railroad Station in Connecticut. In 1989 Mr. Kinney re-married and moved to Sun City, Arizona for a happy and active retirement lifestyle where he continued to be active in the local art community at the Lakeview Center as an accomplished silver crafter, potter and lawn bowler. Mr. Kinney returned east to Belfast, in 1999 for his “second” retirement. After summering in Waldoboro for 35 years.
He is survived by his wife Daphne Chalk-Kinney (formerly of Redding, Connecticut), daughter Gwen Kinney-Casale of Friendship, son Peter of Pennsauken, New Jersey, son Tom of Wassaic, New York, and son Charles of Hallandale, Florida, three grandsons and three great-grandsons. A private ceremony was held in Maine on May 13.
James M. Knight
2001-04-24
James M. Knight, III, of Boothbay Harbor, died May 15 at St. Andrews Hospital in Boothbay Harbor.
He was born in Wiscasset, the son of James M. and Grace Day Knight. He grew up in Wiscasset, attending local schools and graduated from Kent’s Hill School.
He was a wood joiner worker at BIW for many years.
He was a member of the Boothbay Harbor Knights of Pythias and a former member of the Bath Lodge of Elks.
He enjoyed boating, the ocean and reading. He traveled everywhere with his wife.
He is survived by two nephews, David and Ruth Alley of East Boothbay and Stephen and Eleanor Alley of East Boothbay.
He was predeceased by his wife Genevieve Knight in 1999.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made in his memory to the Boothbay Region Humane Society, Atlantic Highway, Edgecomb, 04556.
Graveside service on Monday, May 21 at 1 p.m. at Oceanview cemetery in Boothbay.
Arrangements are by Simmons, Harrington & Hall Funeral Home, 975 Wiscasset Road, P.O. Box 576, Boothbay, 04537.
Henry Albert Knoll
2001-04-24
Henry Albert Knoll, 78, Boothbay, died May 9, at St. Andrews Hospital.
Dr. Knoll retired to Maine in 1987 and had resided in East Boothbay for the last eight years. The younger of two sons born to German immigrants in Cliffside Park, N.J., Dr. Knoll attended the University of Rochester on a full scholarship from Bausch & Lomb, the company that eventually employed him for 28 years.
He left college for Navy officer training in World War II, and assisted with projects at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.
In 1947, he married Patricia Knoll in Boston. After the war, Mr. Knoll received his doctorate in physiological optics from Ohio State university, and began teaching at the Los Angeles College of Optometry, where he later served as dean.
In 1959, Mr. Knoll moved his family to Rochester, N.Y., where be became director of research and development at Bausch & Lomb. He was at the forefront in developing and marketing the soft contact lens in the United States. This work involved frequent travel to South Africa, Japan and Czechoslovakia. He also traveled with his family to many folk-dance festivals around the U.S. and Yugoslavia and Russia.
After retiring in 1987, Mr. Knoll moved to Bath. There, he took on restoration of the weathervane atop the steeple of City Hall. His interest in weathervanes resulted in extensive research, lectures and slide show presentations. He volunteered at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, researching the waterways of the Kennebec River. He attended the YMCA and a men’s group and enjoyed time with friends and family.
Mr. Knoll enjoyed astronomy, garlic gardening, the German language, the history of his family, and the life and works of Vincent Van Gohg.
His son, Christopher, died in 1989.
His former wife, Patricia Knoll, lives in Harpswell.
Mr. Knoll was the companion of Ms. Lee Hartford.
Surviving are his daughter, Heidi A. Knoll, and a grandson, Lucas Knoll Muller of Pleasantville, N.Y.
Memorial service at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 20 at the Newagen Inn.
Helen Koch
2001-03-22
Helen Koch, 93, Jackson Heights, N.Y. and Edgecomb, died March 17.
She retired from the New York Telephone Company and from the Social Security Civil Service department.
Preceded in death by her husband, Justin; a son, William and by several brothers and sisters. Survived by daughter-in-law, Barbara Koch of Kettering; 4 grandchildren, Jennifer Chandler, Justina LaPorte, Joseph Koch and Mark Koch; 5 great grandchildren, Erin and Luke Chandler, Cameron and Allison LaPorte and Graham Koch; sister-in-law, Helen Kutschera; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral service 3 p.m. on March 20 at Routsong Funeral Home, 2100 E. Stroop Rd., Kettering with Father William J. Kramer officiating.
The family will receive friends 2-3 p.m., March 20 at the funeral home. Condolences may be sent to the funeral home’s website at www.routsong.com.
Eleanor Walcott Koski
2001-05-03
Eleanor Walcott Koski, 85, Jefferson, passed away may 1, at her home in Jefferson after an 18-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
Eleanor was born April 30, 1916 in Keyser, WV, the daughter of Dr. William H. and Marguerite Morse Walcott. She was a 1938 graduate of Wilson College in Chambersburg, Penn. On April 13, 1941 she married William Neil Koski in Fort Belvoir, VA.
Eleanor was primarily a homemaker during her adult life, raising three daughters and serving as the wife of an Army officer. She lived in Tennessee, Michigan, New York, Newfoundland, California, South Korea and retired in Virginia Beach, Virginia where she lived for many years.
After the death of her husband in 1989, she became an immediate member of the family of her daughter and son-in-law, Beth and Ernest Richards of Jefferson.
Eleanor traveled extensively with her family, loved spending time with her grandchildren, enjoyed camping, dancing, horseback riding, opera, classical music, ballet and anything French. She had a beautiful soprano voice and sang extensively in churches wherever she lived. While in Seoul, South Korea, she and her husband assisted in the establishment of Samae Presbyterian Church. She was a founding member of Wycliffe Presbyterian Church in Virginia Beach. While in Maine and when she was still able, she attended the United Baptist Church of Jefferson.
She is survived by her daughters, Anne Nichols of Greeley, Col., Linda Koski of Greenville, and Elizabeth Richards of Jefferson, 10 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, 3 brothers, William H. Walcott, Jr., of Cambridge, MD., John R. Walcott of Harpers Ferry, VA., Oliver M. Walcott of Fairfield, Cal., sister Marguerite M. DeDapper of Westport Conn.
Memorial service at the United Baptist Church, Rt. 215, Jefferson during their regular Sunday service at 9:30 a.m., May 6. Interment will be in the Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA. on May 21 at 1 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Eleanor’s name to the Jefferson Fire and Rescue, P.O. Box 927, Jefferson, Me. 04348. Arrangements are by Hall Funeral Home, Waldoboro.
Michael L. Katzev
2001-09-20
Michael Lazare Katzev, classical archaeologist and excavator of "The Kyrenia Ship," died at home on Southport Island Saturday, September 8 of a sudden stroke. He is remembered as a passionate scholar whose greatest joy was sharing information with colleagues and the wonders of art and archaeology with friends.
Born in Los Angeles on July 25, 1939 and attending L.A. High, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in economics at Stanford University in 1961, then crossed the bay to Berkeley for a master's in art history in 1963. Following a year each at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and at Columbia University, he entered the Ph.D. program at the University of Pennsylvania in 1965.
He learned the skills of excavation at Nemea, Greece from Charles K. Williams II and applied them underwater for the first time on Roman and Byzantine shipwrecks at Yassi Ada, Turkey under George F. Bass. Both teachers were to become lifelong friends.
His desire to study original Greek bronze statues led him to the sea. In Cyprus, off the northern coast town of Kyrenia, he was shown by Andreas Cariolou the mound of Greek amphoras that was to become his life's work. During Mr. Katzev's four years of teaching at Oberlin College he led a team of over 50 excavators in raising and preserving the oldest seagoing vessel then to emerge from the sea. "The Kyrenia Ship" which had traded in cargoes of amphoras, millstones, almonds and iron ingots, yielded insights into the rugged lives of her captain and three crew. While sailing south from their home port of Rhodes about the year 300 B.C., they appear to have been attacked by pirates within sight of ancient Kyrenia. Their ship, perhaps scuttled to hide the crime, was so well preserved that its timbers could be raised, preserved over a five-year period, and reassembled in the crusader castle of Kyrenia where it is on view today with cargo and the crews' possessions.
The ship from the time of Alexander came to life in a replica built "shell first" in the painstaking manner of mortise and tennon joinery at the Psaros yard of Perama, Greece. July 4 of 1986 she sailed past the Statue of Liberty, representing Greece in the Liberty Parade of Tall Ships with Mr. Katzev on board.
In his six years using the libraries of Athens to complete research on the ship, he was delighted to excavate again at ancient Corinth with Charles Williams.
With his wife, they left the Mediterranean in 1982, settling first in Arlington, Vermont for 13 years, then on the island of Southport. The house they built there in 1998 high on the coast became his greatest joy.
Survivors include his wife, Susan; one brother, Richard Katzev and his wife Aphra Reinelt Katzev of Portland, Oregon; a niece, Alexandra Katzev Engs of Lafayette, California; a nephew, David Herbert Katzev of San Francisco; and five second cousins.
Mr. Katzev was a founding member of and cared deeply abut the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, based on Texas A&M University. Under its umbrella, young scholars train to publish and excavate in the Americans and world wide. The family would be grateful if memorial gifts were directed there c/o Jerome Hall, President, INA, P.O. Drawer HG, College Station, TX 77841-5137.
Gretchen B. Knights
2001-08-02
Gretchen B. Knights
Gretchen Brown Knights, 102, passed away peacefully Tuesday, July 24, while visiting her son at the family camp on Lake Kezar, Maine.
Born December 18, 1898, in Ipswich, Massachusetts, she graduated from Phillips Andover Academy (Abbot Academy), in 1919. She married Alonzo Knights, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, and for 74 years lived in Wayland, Mass., summering at Lake Kezar.
Mrs. Knights was a member of the Wayland, Massachusetts, Garden Club, the First Parish Church in Wayland and a volunteer for 20 years at the Waltham Hospital Thrift Shop in Waltham.
Most recently she lived in Sanibal Island, Florida and at St. Andrews Village in Boothbay Harbor.
She was predeceased by her husband, Alonzo F. Knights and son, Richard Knights.
Survivors include her son, David Knights of Marblehead, Mass., one daughter, Deborah (Mrs. L. Whitman Smith), of Southport, and Sanibel, Fla.; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, August 18 in Center Lovell, Maine.
Sumner E. Kibbe
2002-10-03
Sumner E. Kibbe, 65, of Southport Island, died Monday, September 23.
Born March 9, 1937, in Springfield, Mass. he was a son of Ernest and Janette Pomeroy Kibbe. An engineering graduate of Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y., Mr. Kibbe held a number of managerial positions with General Electric Co. in Schenectady, N.Y., Daytona Beach, Fla., Erie and Grove City, Penn.; Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, Mich.; and with Cooper Cameron, Inc., in Corry, Penn. and Buffalo, N.Y. Upon his retirement in 1998, he realized his lifelong dream of living in Maine, first in Trevett and then on Southport Island.
Mr. Kibbe's life was defined by an unyielding commitment to his family, his work and his country. He dearly loved his country, especially the state of Maine. He was a passionate advocate for the ideals espoused by our founding fathers, the American free enterprise system, and individual liberty.
He was a co-founder and later chairman of the Foundation for Free Enterprise Education of Pennsylvania, an organization committed to promoting the understanding of the link between personal freedom and economic opportunity. His commitment to America's youth was also reflected in his dedicated service as a Cub Scout packmaster, Sunday school teacher, and devoted father and grandfather. He was a lieutenant colonel in the Wawenock Power Squadron and an active member of the National Rifle Association.
Survivors include his wife, Evelyn Sue Nies Heil Kibbe; two sons, Mark W. Kibbe and wife Rachael of Leesburg, Va. and Matthew B. Kibbe and wife Theresa of Washington, D.C.; four step-children, William R. Heil and wife Amy of East Baldwin, Matthew P. Heil and wife Jennifer of Westford, Mass., Dr. Cynthia A. Heil of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Pamela S. Heil of Marriottsville, Md.; three grandchildren, Michael Joseph, Jessica Marie and Veronica Lynn Kibbe all of Leesburg, Va.; and three step-grandchildren, Tyler Curtis Heil and Elsa Jennifer Heil of Westford, Mass.
and Autumn Josephine Heil of East Baldwin.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Barbara Ann Kibbe, in 1996.
A resurrection service will be held at the Southport United Methodist Church at 11 a.m. on Saturday, October 5. Interment will be in the Greenlawn cemetery in Wiscasset.
Gifts given in Mr. Kibbe's memory may be sent to the Foundation for Free Enterprise Education of Pennsylvania, 2545 W. 26th St., Erie, PA 16506 or Midwestern Regional Medical Center, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, 2520 Elisha Ave., Zion, IL 60099.
