BENTON – Michael D. Leighton, 52, died May 3 at his home. He was born in Pensacola, Fla. on June 12, 1959, to Carrol and Betty Leighton. Leighton graduated from Bangor High School in 1977 and began working with the Waterville Police Department in 1978. He started his own company, Probe Investigations, in 1982 and […]

WISCASSET — Donald W. Leavitt Jr., 77, died May 3 at his home. He was born in Woolwich on July 15, 1934, a son of Donald W. and Dorothy L. Leavitt. He attended Wiscasset schools and graduated from Wiscasset Academy in 1951. On Nov. 20, 1955, he married Merrye V. Wright. He was employed by his […]

BRUNSWICK — Methyl Nadine Ouellette, 89, died May 6 at Horizons Living and Rehabilitation Center. She was born in Lewiston on April 17, 1923, a daughter of Maurice and Grace Knox Bishop. She attended West Paris schools and Stevens High School in Rumford. She married Edgar Ouellette on August 11, 1947, in Brunswick. He died on […]

BRUNSWICK — Irving “Stet” W. Stetson, 87, died May 6 at the Freeport Nursing Home. He was born in Portland on Jan. 30, 1925, the son of Irving W. Sr. and Mulvina Ragan Stetson. In 1943 he graduated from Brunswick High School and enlisted in the U.S. Army. During WWII he served as grave registration chief […]

RICHMOND — Robert E. York, 36, died on May 1 after a long battle with Lou Gehrig’s Disease. York was born Feb. 21, 1976 in Augusta and was a lifelong resident of Brunswick and Topsham. He attended Mt. Ararat High School. Prior to his diagnosis in 2009, York worked at Coombs Landscaping and enjoyed spending time […]

HARPSWELL — Henry V. Gosselin, 83, died May 2 at Parkview Medical Adventist Hosptial. Gosselin was born in Brunswick on March 23, 1929, to Raoul and Rose Gosselin. He attended St. John’s Catholic School in Brunswick, St. Francis Academy in Biddeford and St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. He received his masters degree in journalism from […]

BRUNSWICK — Robert G. Snider, 70, died May 2 at Mid Coast Hospital after a long illness. Snider was born May 20, 1941, in Brooklyn, N.Y., a son of George R. and Elizabeth Snider. He attended Brooklyn schools. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps for several years and was discharged in 1962. For many years, […]

FALMOUTH — Gladys Archibald Hager, 92, died May 1 at her home after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. She was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, the daughter of John Geddie and Cora Blenkhorn Archibald. She was two years old when her family moved to Amherst, Mass., where her father took a job as a research […]

YARMOUTH — James Blair Goodbody, 78, died May 2. He was born Nov. 13, 1933, in New York City. He was a proud graduate of the Kent School, Williams College and the University of Michigan Law School where he was an assistant editor of the Michigan Law Review. Between 1965 and 1972, he worked in Washington, […]

FLORENCE, S.C. — Richard Patrick Ford, 71, died on April 27. Ford was born July 22, 1940, to Patrick and Helen Ford of Glens Falls, N.Y. He graduated from St. Mary’s Academy in 1958 and then from St. Bonaventure University in 1962. He went on to work for the Kimberly Clark Corporation for 37 years as […]