BRUNSWICK — Richard Warren Rock, age 82, died Oct. 2 at Mid Coast Senior Health Care Center. He was born in Nashua, N.H. on Dec. 12, 1926, the son of Ralph E. and Mildred A. Small Rock. During World War II he served in the U.S. Air Force. From 1951 to 1956 he was a […]

SCARBOROUGH — Gerald J. DeRoche, 88, of Yarmouth, died Oct. 2 at the Maine Veterans Home in Scarborough. On Sept. 14, 1921, he was born in Tignish, PEI, Canada, the eighth child of 15 born to Margaret (Gould) and Laurence E. DeRoche. The family moved to Yarmouth when he was two years old and he […]

FREEPORT — Harold P. Lapham, 90, died Oct. 2 at Skolfield House. On March 30, 1919, he was born in Brunswick, the son of Herbert and Angie Allen Lapham. In 1936 he graduated from Brunswick High School. On June 14, 1940, he married Margaret E. Slate. Before joining the Navy in 1945, he was employed […]

PORTLAND — Margaret Mary Kennedy Thompson, 81, of Maine and Virginia, died Sept. 22 while holding the hand of her husband of 59 years, retired Colonel Nelson “Nels” Thompson. The daughter of Elizabeth M. (McCourt) and William S. Kennedy, she was born in Portland on Oct. 21, 1927. She attended local schools and graduated from […]

PORTLAND — Walter L. Sanborn, 61, formerly of Westbrook, died Sept. 27. On May 4, 1948, he was born to Norwood and Waverlet Sanborn. He was employed by C.N. Brown The Big Apple in Westbrook. His interests included fresh water fishing and watching the New York Yankees. He was predeceased by his father Norwood. Survivors […]

BARRE, Vt. — Timothy J. “Tim” Whyte, 69, formerly of Cape Elizabeth, South Portland, and Brunswick, died Sept. 29 after a long illness. On Oct. 2, 1939, he was born in Springfield, Mass., son of William Ward Whyte II and Dorothy Viola (Thompson) Whyte. After attending St. Francis Preparatory School in Pennsylvania, he attended St. Anselm’s […]

BATH — Donald Lee Archer, 59, died Sept. 25 at Maine Medical Center. On Dec. 28, 1949, he was born in Bath, a son of Herman and Corris Archer. Drafted into the Army when he was 20, he served as a sharp shooter and marksman in the Vietnam War and earned a National Defense Service medal. […]

BRUNSWICK — Carleton R. Wilson, 93, died Sept. 27 at Amenity Manor Nursing Home in Topsham. Born in Brunswick on July 18, 1916, he was the son of Howard and Mabel (Rogers) Wilson. He attended the Growstown School, a one room school house, and worked on the family farm until he developed polio. On Nov. 9, […]

BATH — Isabel Cumming Seimer, 90, died Sept. 21 at Hill House Assisted Living. Born in New York City to Rev. Charles Gordon Cumming and Lenore Smith Cumming, they moved to Bangor before her first birthday. She met her future husband, Stanley J. Seimer, while attending Northwestern University for a master’s degree. They were married […]

BRUNSWICK — Charles Frank Bourget, 78, formerly of Lewiston, died Sept. 20 at Amenity Manor in Topsham. He was born in Lewiston on Oct. 5, 1930, a son of Joseph and Viola (MacDonald) Bourget and was a lifelong farmer. On June 16, 2002, at the age of 71, he married Nellie I. Lovejoy and moved […]