SCARBOROUGH — Karl Alan “Buddy” Reid, 19, died Sept. 19. Born in Portland on Valentine’s Day in 1992, son of Karen and Bill Reid, he grew up in Scarborough, where he attended local schools. Most recently he was attending USM and playing his favorite sport, soccer. He loved sports, music, spending time with his dog […]

HARPSWELL — Mary H. Farmer Marquis, 84, of Brunswick, died Sept. 25 at her daughter’s home in Harpswell. Born in Sarah Anne, W.Va., on March 2, 1927, she was a daughter of James A. Howes Sr., and Hattie Dingess Howes and the granddaughter of Devil Anse Hatfield. For 65 years she lived in Brunswick, where […]

BRUNSWICK — Marie “Honey” Lotz Hanley, 91, of Brunswick, died Sept. 21 in the Bodwell Hospice Acute Care Center. She was a well-respected and successful career woman from her early 20s until her full retirement in the early 1990s. After various secretarial jobs in advertising and public relations, she joined the D’Arcy advertising agency in […]

YARMOUTH — Richard G. Stebbins, 68, died Sept. 17 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough surrounded by his family.   Born May 20, 1943, in Providence, R.I., one of two sons of Edward S. Stebbins and Elizabeth Barlow, he was raised in Cranston, R.I. and received a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and a […]

BOSTON — Ann Marie Sitzmann, 66, of Concord, Mass., and Yarmouth, died Sept. 21.   Born on July 5, 1945, in Bayonne, N.J., the eldest of nine children of William F. and Helen (Ferry) Folger, she graduated from Holy Family Academy in Bayonne and later from the Bayonne Hospital School of Nursing as a Registered […]

NORTH YARMOUTH — Laurie Butler, 44, died Sept. 25 with her loving family and friends by her side. Her tenacious spirit helped her fight a long, courageous battle with breast cancer. Born on Aug. 15, 1967, in Brunswick, to William Cockburn and Winnifred (Mosher) Merrill, she grew up in Brunswick and graduated from Brunswick High […]

PORTLAND — Michael Edward Barriault, 64, died Sept. 18, at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House after a brief, noble confrontation with terminal cancer. Born in Old Town Maine in 1947, he grew up in Presque Isle and Augusta where he graduated Cony High School. Later on he attended Georgia Tech, University of Maine at Orono, and […]

BATH — Ella Priestly, 90, died Sept. 16 at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick. On July 31, 1921, she was born in Sanford, a daughter of John and Ivy (Mitchell) McCullough. She was raised at the Shaker Village in New Gloucester, and later moved to Bath, where she managed Mary’s Restaurant and drove a taxi […]

BRUNSWICK — Virginia Moran Dea, of Sunnybrook Village in Brunswick, died peacefully in her late 90s Sept. 16 at Parkview Hospital. Her three children were with her during her last days. She never disclosed her true age, even making herself younger on her driver’s license. Years ago she told her daughter that she did not […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Christopher Robert Grasse, 68, died Sept. 16 after a courageous struggle with cancer. Born July 1, 1943, in Portland, the son of Robert Grasse and Frances Grasse, a well-known piano teacher. After he graduated from South Portland High School he spent a post-graduate year at North Yarmouth Academy. In 1967, he opened […]