BRUNSWICK — Ruth V. Whalen, 91, died Oct. 4 at her home. On Aug. 17, 1919, she was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, the daughter of Snyder and Florence Peterson Perry. She graduated from Danvers High School in Massachusetts.   She was married to Grover Smith from 1940 until his death in 1953.   In […]

TOPSHAM — Edith A. O’Farrell, 65, died Oct. 3 at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick. On Oct. 16, 1944, she was born in Bath, the daughter of George and Naomi H. Powers Laskey, and attended Bath schools. On June 22, 1979, she married Donald E. O’Farrell, and together they owned and operated Cathance Trailer Park […]

BRUNSWICK — David L. DeHahn, 48, died Sept. 28 after a six-year battle with cancer. Born in Brunswick on Aug. 25, 1962, he was the son of Ralph and Simonne Bergeron DeHahn, and attended Brunswick schools. On Aug. 10, 1985, he married Carrie M. Farmer. Over the years he worked at local restaurants and Bath […]

FALMOUTH — Nikolaus K. “Nik” Koengeter, 67, died suddenly Sept. 26 from congestive heart failure due to untreated high blood pressure.   Born in Germany Aug. 7, 1943, he moved to Maine at age 11. After attending college, he served four years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. For eight years he was […]

FALMOUTH — Donald Hiller Graves, 80, died Sept. 28 at Sedgewood Commons after a lengthy illness.   He was born on Sept. 11, 1930 in Fall River, Mass., the son of Wilfred Graves and Marion Hiller. He attended Bates College where he met his wife of 56 years, Mary “Betty” Elizabeth Lewis, while working in […]

FREEPORT — Lewis Lawrence Smith, 76, died peacefully Sept. 26 at his summer home in Freeport. Born in Philadelphia in 1933, the son of Lawrence M.C. and Eleanor Houston Smith, he attended schools in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. After he graduated from Harvard University, he attended the Harvard Business School, where he received his master’s […]

PORTLAND — Mary E. Merrigan, 93, died Sept. 28 at Maine Medical Center following a brief illness. Born in Portland, a daughter of James J. and Bridget E. Slane Wickham Sr., she graduated from local schools and attended Northeast Business College. In 1941 she married Thomas A. Merrigan at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Ann Cleveland Richards, 79, died Sept. 24 at Mercy Hospital in Portland following a brief illness. Born on May 22, 1931, in Honolulu, Hawaii, she was the daughter of Chauncey F. Cleveland and Mary Marpole Cleveland. During World War II she attended school in British Columbia before returning to Honolulu and graduating […]

TOPSHAM — Jake Chandel, 20, died Sept. 26 in Bridgton. Born in Cambridge, Mass. in 1990, the son of Thomas P. Chandel and Susan (Shirley) Chandel, he attended Topsham schools and the Vocational Region Ten High School in Brunswick. Recently he was working as a freelance computer graphics designer and part-time at his father’s CPA […]

HARPSWELL — Karen Ellen Whalen, 67, of Harpswell and Clifton, Va., died peacefully Sept. 26 at her summer home in Harpswell of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.   On Aug. 18, 1943, she was born in Englewood, N.J., a daughter of Dorothy (Wray) and Roy J. Fisher, and grew up […]