For more than 30 years, Heald led the nonprofit that provides critical legal services to the poor in Maine. She was recognized by the White House as a Champion of Change.
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Featured obituaries written by the staff of the Portland Press Herald.
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Teresa Sanborn, 70, longtime Portland educator loved reading and giving books to kids
She worked in the Portland Public Schools for nearly three decades, and died from health issues caused by Powassan virus, a rare tick-borne disease.
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Martha Hallisey-Swift, 53, a devoted mother and champion of Maine’s children
The assistant attorney general was diagnosed less than a year ago with a rare and aggressive form of uterine cancer.
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Teresa Bendokas, loving mother and senior director at Crossroads, dies at 42
Teresa Bendokas Heinfeld died Jan. 5 from complications of liver disease. She was 42.
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Briana Murphy, 24, a passionate and caring adventurer
The 2015 Deering High graduate was ‘an awesome person to be around,’ says a cousin. ‘She was unapologetically her all the time.’
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Jim Brunelle, 86, renowned Maine journalist who was ‘consummate voice of reason’ for Press Herald
After a start in radio and TV, he spent four decades at the newspaper as a political reporter, editorial page editor, editorial writer and columnist.
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Sylvia Sodergren Carr, 98, retired nurse and devoted member of St. Ansgar Lutheran Church
She was born in 1923 to August and Lena Sodergren, of Stockholm, Maine, in a log cabin built by her Swedish immigrant grandfather.
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Maine Lives Lost: Ronnie Rines, 61, claimed by COVID soon after retiring from BIW
After 40 years on the job, he had dreams of fixing up his house to sell it and simplify his life. He was unvaccinated and tested positive just weeks after he retired.
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Maine Lives Lost: Barbara MacFarlane, 85, a strong, loving woman who cared for others
The Litchfield woman’s family remembers her giving nature and bemoan that she didn’t get vaccinated because she believed COVID-19 was a hoax.
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Ronald L. Grondin Sr., 74, well-known Scarborough mechanic
His family has owned Village Center Auto Care in Scarborough since 1993.