TOPSHAM — Stephen Francis Austin, 73, died Dec. 2 after a brief struggle with brain cancer. He died at home surrounded by his family. Austin was born on Sept. 25, 1939, in Brattleboro, Vt., the son of James A. and Euretta (Fuller) Austin. He graduated from St. Michael’s High School, class of 1957, and then […]

HARPSWELL — Kenneth Roy (“K.R.” or “Wuke-E”) Toothaker, 77, a lifelong resident of Harpswell, died Dec. 12 at home. He was born April 9, 1935, in Harpswell, a son of Maurice and Marion (Morgan) Toothaker. He was educated in local schools.  Toothaker worked for many years as a lobsterman, and was well-known in the community. He […]

BRUNSWICK — Edmund H. Gibson, 91, died Dec. 9 at his home. He was born in Newton, Mass., on Oct. 2, 1921, the son of Alec and Ethel Cary Gibson. He graduated from Watertown High School, Lawrence Academy and Bates College. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.  Gibson married Patricia Hall in East […]

BRUNSWICK — Eleanor S. Parody, 80, died Dec. 11 at her home. She was born in New York City and graduated from Bryant High School in Queens in 1949.  She worked as a medical secretary at New York Hospital, and later as secretary for the head of the chemical engineering department at the Cooper Union […]

BRUNSWICK — Ruth M. Currier, 96, died Dec. 6 at Horizons Living Center. She was born in Greene on April 16, 1916, the daughter of Edward Card and Blanch (Mitchell) Card. After her first birthday, the family moved from Greene to Bowdoin, where she lived on a farm with her parents and grandmother.   She graduated […]

BRUNSWICK — John “Jake” Thomas Riley Horgan, 26, formerly of Stowe Lane, Brunswick, died Dec. 6 at his home in Olympia, Wash. He was born Nov. 10, 1986, in Boston, the son of Matthew D. Horgan, of Bath, and Patricia L. Riley, of Brunswick.    Horgan attended the St. John’s School, Brunswick High School and […]

HARPSWELL — Ulrike “Ulli” Vachon-Frisch, 65, died Dec. 11. She was born in Bad Nauheim, Germany, on Feb. 20, 1947, the daughter of Peter Frisch and Hedwig Frisch.  She obtained her master’s degree from Germany’s Frankfurt University in English and geography. She taught German for the U.S. Army and also at a private German high […]

WEST BATH — Thomas E. Elliott Jr., 72, died Dec. 14 at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. He was born in Boston on Dec. 1, 1940, a son of Thomas E. Sr. and Gloria Martin Elliott. He grew up in Portland and attended St. Dominic’s Sacred Heart School and Cheverus High School, where he […]

BATH — Roy Lawrence Reed Jr., 78, of Bath, died at his home Dec. 10 with his family by his side. He was born in St. Louis, May 14, 1934, the son of Roy Sr. and Albina Zuzack Reed.   Reed grew up in Columbia, Mo., graduating from Hickman High School in the class of […]