He declined quickly after testing positive for the disease in mid-December.
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Featured obituaries written by the staff of the Portland Press Herald.
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Valerie Baker, 70, longtime teacher at the Middle School of the Kennebunks
She taught in special education at the school for 33 years, until a month ago.
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Bob Mitton, owner of iconic Old Port barber shop, dies at 83
Mr. Mitton opened his shop in 1959 and ran it at various addresses, notably on Fore Street, for a half-century.
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Erland Cutter, popular French and Latin teacher at Westbrook High School, voice of the Blue Blazes, dies at 73
When he retired, the broadcast booth at Olmsted Field was named for him.
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Caleb Fraser, a Portland High grad and standout pitcher, dies at 26
His body was discovered by a hiker Monday morning in the Presumpscot River, and Portland police say his death is being investigated as an apparent drowning.
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John Neuts, 29, skilled boatsman and champion snowmobile racer
‘He loved anything that had four wheels,’ his father recalled.
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Christopher Gillies, 65, retired senior master sergeant in Air National Guard
During his 38-year career, he was deployed to the Middle East 3 times.
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Rosaline Sanford, 92, longtime nurse at Maine Medical Center
She lived in Freeport for most of her life and graduated from Maine General Hospital School of Nursing in 1949.
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Dakota Matthews, a beloved barber at the Crow’s Nest Barbershop, dies at 27
Mr. Matthews Matthews was also an organ donor; his heart and left kidney went to a man in his 40s, and his liver and right kidney went to 2 other men in need of life-saving transplants.
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Elizabeth ‘Ibby’ Conroy, nurse at former Arnie Hanson Center, dies at 81
From 1986 to 2001, she was a nurse at the Arnie Hansen Center on India Street in Portland, now the home of the Milestone Foundation.