PORTLAND — Margaret C. MacDonald, 103, died April 15 at St. Joseph’s Rehabilitation and Residence Center. On May 28, 1908, she was born in Norwood, Mass., a daughter of Patrick and Hannah Costello. In 1925 she graduated from Cathedral High School. She married John J. MacDonald in 1941 at St. Dominic’s Church. Over the years […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Ronald H. Brown, 71, died April 9 at a Portland hospital after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Born in Belfast, a son of Harold Keene and Francis M. Beckwith Brown, he attended Belfast schools, and graduated from Crosby High School in 1958. He later attended Casco Bay College in Portland. In […]

BRUNSWICK — George Robert “Bob” Johnson, 82, died suddenly at home April 9. Born in Fort Fairfield, on Sept. 7, 1928, a son of Grover L. and Hildred Clark Johnson, he attended schools in Fort Fairfield and Presque Isle. On Oct. 24, 1945, he left school to enlist in the U.S. Navy and served 23 […]

FALMOUTH — Peggy Janiece (Tate) Furey, 70, died peacefully March 28 in Orlando, Fla. She was born in St. Louis, Mo., on Jan. 22, 1941, a daughter of Betty and U.L. Tate. The family moved to Jonesboro, Ark., in 1944, where she attended local schools. After she graduated from Jonesboro High School in 1959, she attended […]

SCARBOROUGH — Lee F. Adams, Jr., 76, died at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House on April 7 from cancer. On Jan. 5, 1935, he was born in Portland, a son of Bessie J. (Frye) and Lee F. Adams. After graduating from Deering High School in 1953, he became a partner in his father’s business, Eastern Builders, […]

PORTLAND — Helen Frances Kilmartin, 97, died April 6 at Mercy Hospital surrounded by her family. On March 14, 1914, she was born in Portland, the only child of John J. “Direac” and Annie (Faherty) Flaherty, and graduated from Cathedral High School in 1933. After she graduated from the Northeastern School of Business in 1935, […]

BRUNSWICK — Muriel T. Mehlhorn, 83, died March 30 at her residence. Born July 9, 1927, in Amesbury, Mass., she was a daughter of Antonio and Adelia Rouillard Pouliot. In 1946 she graduated from Morse High School. After she graduated from Wilfred Academy she owned and operated the Lynn Carole Shoppe in Bath where she […]

BRUNSWICK — Rose Ellen (Ricker) Croft, 70, of Benton, Ark., died March 30 from cancer at Mid Coast Hospital, surrounded by loving family and friends. Born May 1, 1940, in Brunswick, a daughter of Edmund and Mabel (Dunning) Ricker, she grew up in Harpswell and attended Brunswick High School.   After she was married she […]

TOPSHAM — Marilyn G. “Dolly” Edgecomb, 81, died April 1 at Amenity Manor. Born in Brunswick on May 13, 1929, a daughter of George and Beatrice Small Brawn, she graduated in the last class of the Coombs School in Bowdoinham. In September 1948 she married Leroy Edgecomb in Bowdoinham and they had three children together. […]

CUMBERLAND — James Burnet Hancock, 87, died March 9 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House with his two daughters by his side. Born on Oct. 19, 1923, he grew up in Mahwah, N.J., with his mother, Ella (Bixby) Hancock and his aunt Margaret May Burnet. His father, Edward Lee Hancock, died before his birth. In 1941 […]