PORTLAND — Kathleen M. (Markley) Rice, 60, devoted mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and best friend, died Sept. 8 from colon cancer. Born in Portland on July 22, 1951, a daughter of James and Mary (Fields) Markley, she was a member of the last graduating class of Cathedral High School. She was a highly regarded paralegal […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Mary M. Seader, 87, of South Portland, died Sept. 3 at Maine Medical Center with her loving family by her side. On June 9, 1924, she was born in Boston, Mass., a daughter of Charles Corrado and Jennie DiPhilippo Corradini. She attended the North School and Portland High School. Over the years she worked […]

WOOLWICH — Neil Edward LaRochelle, Sr., 80, died from natural causes at his Woolwich home Sept. 4, the 57th anniversary of his wedding date to his late wife, Mary. Born on July 28, 1931, at the family farm in Bowdoinham, he was the second of four children of Edward A. and Lela E. (Bishop) LaRochelle. […]

PORTLAND — Robert J. Hodsdon Jr., 70, of Phippsburg, died Aug. 7 at Maine Medical Center from pulmonary fibrosis. On Oct. 31, 1940, he was born in Portland, a son of Alice J. and Robert J.Hodsdon. He graduated from North Yarmouth Academy in 1959, Nasson College in 1964 and received his master of science degree […]

BRUNSWICK — Margaret T. Bliss, 76, died Sept. 6 at Mid Coast Hospital. Born in Orange, N.J., on Sept. 25, 1934, a daughter of Edward and Caroline Bliss Taylor, and graduated from Northfield School for Girls in Northfield, Mass.  She later attended Pomona College in California and graduated from Columbia Presbyterian School of Nursing in […]

YARMOUTH — Chad Mathew Meier, 36, of Yarmouth, died Sept. 3 of injuries from an automobile accident. Born on Jan. 4, 1975 in Portland, a son of Mary (Grant) and William Meier, he was educated in Yarmouth and Lakeland, Fla., schools. Over the years he worked as a carpenter for his father and a number […]

FRANKFORT — Weston Bradford Haskell III, 58, of Frankfort, died Aug. 25 as the result of an accident on a Searsport construction site where he was working as an inspector. Born in Boston on April 1, 1953, he was the only son of Weston Bradford Haskell, Jr., and Mary Louise (Williams) Haskell. While growing up in […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Eleanor (Dyer) Black, 94, of South Portland and Brewer, died peacefully Aug. 27 at Barron Medical Center in Portland. Born in Brewer, on May 25, 1917, the youngest of four daughters of Samuel and Florence (Lowell) Dyer. Her passion was roller-skating, which she performed throughout the northeast, from the Rainbow Room in […]

BRUNSWICK — A. LeRoy “Roy” Greason of Brunswick, 88, a longtime teacher, college administrator and community leader, died Aug. 28 at Mid Coast Senior Health Center. On Sept. 13, 1922, he was born in Newport, R.I., a son of Arthur LeRoy Sr., and Pauline Brown Greason. After he graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan […]

BRUNSWICK — Anna Maria Ciampa, 91, died Aug. 26 at the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va. Born Nov. 2, 1919, in Boston, Mass., she was the daughter of Alphonse and Stella Rubini DeFranco. After she graduated from Roslindale High School, she furthered her education in art and art history. On Feb. 13, 1949, she […]