ROCKLAND — More than 600 bicycle riders are riding along Maine’s midcoast for the ninth annual Maine Lobster Ride & Roll. Saturday’s ride is the Bicycle Coalition of Maine’s largest fundraising event, with proceeds going to support the group’s work to improve bicycling in Maine. The event starts in Rockland and has four rides ranging […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Beverly Anna Rutherford, 76, died at home July 16. On Sept. 18, 1933, she was born in Portland, the only child of Howard Leroy and Erma Muriel Jones Smith.  She grew up on Munjoy Hill and graduated from Portland High School. On Sept. 13, 1951, she married her high school sweetheart, Floyd […]

BRUNSWICK — Mark Hamilton Haskell, Sr., 42, of Brunswick, died July 17 in South Portland from injuries resulting from a plane crash. On April 25, 1968, he was born in Brunswick, a son of Warren H. and Marilyn L. Allen Haskell and attended local schools. His love of planes began at a very young age, […]

BRUNSWICK — Laurette L. Simoneau, 90, died July 16 at Parkview Adventist Medical Center. On July 1, 1920, she was born in Lewiston, a daughter of Albert J. and Laura Dumont Labbe. The family later moved to Van Buren, where she attended local schools. On July 1, 1950, she married Roger Simoneau and made their […]

FALMOUTH — Patrice Ann “Patty” Bubar, 58, died July 7 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough with her loving family by her side. She was born July 18, 1951, daughter of Albert and Cynthia Doughty, and was raised and educated in Falmouth. The greatest joys in her life were her children and grandchildren. She […]

PORTLAND — William E. Acton, 81, died peacefully July 17 at the Portland Center for Assisted Living with family at his side. On Feb. 26, 1929, he was born in Boston and grew up in Biddeford. After he graduated from Cheverus High School and St. Michael’s College, he served in the Korean War. He was […]

BATH — Robert G. Brown, 67, formerly of Phippsburg, died July 11. On Jan. 16, 1943, he was born in Bath, a son of Herbert and Geraldine Brown.   After he attended Bath schools, he served four years in the U.S. Army until he was honorably discharged. Over the years, he worked as a school […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — Dr. John McLoughlin Birch, 102, died July 9 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House two days before his 103rd birthday. Born in Utica, N.Y., July 11, 1907, a son of Mabel McLoughlin Birch and Alfred C. Birch, he was educated in Utica schools. In 1930 he graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y.  […]

SCARBOROUGH — Shirley L. Kean, 84, died July 9 at Maine Medical Center. Daughter of Joseph and Mary Carroll, she was born and raised in Winchester, Mass., where she graduated from high school in 1944. On Jan. 6, 1946, she married Thomas Kean. For more than 15 years she worked at J.C. Penney, and also […]

WINDHAM — William Murray Gunn, 65, died unexpectedly at his home on July 9.  He was born on Feb. 17, 1945, a son of Murray and Alice (Calvert) Gunn, grew up in Windham and attended local schools. After school he served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.  He worked for Cott Bottling Co. […]