BATH — Jesse T. Duke, 51, died Feb. 8 after a two-year battle with cancer. Duke was born on June 28, 1960, the son of Herald and Judith Light Duke in Oklahoma and spent his childhood there. At the age of 10 his family moved to Maine, where he graduated from high school. Not long […]

YARMOUTH — Thelma Andrews Groves, 90, died Feb. 7 at the Brentwood Manor. Groves was born in Hartford and was the daughter of Leland and Fidelia Dyer Andrews. She attended Hartford schools. On Jan. 21, 1945, she married Lauren Groves. For 29 years she worked in the packing and shipping department at L.L. Bean. She […]

FALMOUTH — Joseph R. Finocchietti, 70, died at his home on Feb. 8. He was born in Poland Springs on June 28, 1941, and was the son of Giuseppe and Eleanor Finocchietti. Finocchietti grew up in Gray and graduated from the Pennell Institute. After high school he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. He married […]

YARMOUTH — Horace “Hockey” Stanley Field, 101, died on Feb. 9 after a brief illness at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House. He was born in Dexter on Nov. 1, 1910, and was the only child of Charlotte Wright and Stanley H. Field. As a child he spent summers at Capital Island, developing a love for […]

PORTLAND — Ernest H. “Smitty” Smith, 91, of South Portland, died unexpectedly on Feb. 3 at Maine Medical Center. He was born in Portland on Dec. 7, 1920, to Ernest H. Sr. and Ruth Smith. He grew up in the Munjoy Hill area and attended Portland schools. He graduated from Portland High School in 1938. […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — Josephine M. Bernier, 95, a former Brunswick resident, died Jan. 17 at Savannah Courts in Oviedo, Fla. She was born in Topsham on Oct. 7, 1915, and was the daughter of Thomas and Leah Fournier Powers. She attended Brunswick schools and in 1946 married Adrian Bernier, who passed away on Valentine’s Day […]

TOPSHAM – Theresa Ann Fitzgerald, 76, died Jan. 29 in Boston, Mass., surrounded by her loving family. She was a daughter of Irving and Matilda Layton of Bath. She worked as an administrative technician at Bath Iron Works until she retired in 2000. Theresa is survived by her sons Michael Albright of Greensburg, Pa., and […]

PHIPPSBURG — Annie Perry Haskell, 93, died in her sleep on Feb. 5. She was born Sept. 29, 1918, in Newton, Mass., to Frederick Gardiner and Helen Whitehead Perry. She attended Wellesley, Mass., schools, graduated from Wellesley High School in 1939 and later from Perry Normal School in Boston. She then taught at Wellesley College […]

HARPSWELL — Ellen Elizabeth Proctor, 66, died Jan. 31 at Maine Medical Center in Portland. Proctor was born on Feb. 15, 1945, to Frank and Ruth Downs Peabody in Bath. She was educated in the Harpswell school system and later graduated from Brunswick High School. She graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in […]

HARPSWELL — Harmon D. York, 78, died Jan. 30 at the home of his daughter. He was born in Cundy’s Harbor on Sept. 27, 1933, and was the son of Dana W. and Bertha E. Toothaker York. He grew up and attended schools in Bath and graduated from Morse High School in 1951. On March […]