PORTLAND — Longtime Portland resident, Ann Jessica Dillon, died March 22, at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough after an eight-month struggle with colon cancer. Dillon was one of six children born in Presque Isle to Frederick and Elizabeth (Freeman) Rediker. Dillon attended Cathedral and Portland High schools after her family moved to Portland. She […]

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BRUNSWICK — Allen M. Brother, 79, died unexpectedly Feb. 26, while on a walk with friends. He was born April 27, 1936, in Bronx, New York, to Ruth (Shapiro) and Morris Brother. He attended local schools and, after high school, attended City College of New York. Brother served in the Army for two years in […]

BRUNSWICK — Barbara Kendall, 90, died March 14, at her home. She was born in Rumford on July 30, 1925, the daughter of Harold and Agnes Harlow Holman, and graduated from Wilson Academy in 1942. On July 3, 1954, she married James H. Kendall II, who was a Navy pilot stationed at Brunswick Navy Air […]

FREEPORT — Edmund “Mike” Lumley III, 77, died March 14, at his home. He was born Oct. 14, 1938, the son of Edmund Lumley Jr., and Margery D. Dauch Lumley in Long Island, New York. He attended Freeport, New York, High School, then Worchester Polytechnic Institute and Babson College in Massachusetts. Lumley was employed in […]

SCARBOROUGH — Rosemary Hawley Snelling, 94, of Scarborough, died March 15, 2016, at home with her family by her side. She was born Feb. 24, 1922, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Rose Gunn Hawley and Horace Hill Hawley. She graduated from Ridley Park High School in 1941. After high school Snelling moved to New York City, […]

OCALA, Fla. — Vicki L. Maxfield, 58, died March 6, after a brief illness. She was born in Newport, Rhode Island, on Sept. 8, 1957, to James B. and Edith W. Maxfield. She grew up in Portland and graduated from Portland High School in 1975. Maxfield graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1979 from the […]

CUMBERLAND — Margelia Loring Blanchard Potter, 94, died March 5. She was born at Sunnyside Farm on Blanchard Road on Oct. 21, 1921, the third daughter of Anna and Howard Blanchard. She graduated from a 15-person class at Greely Institute in 1939 and attended Becker College in Worcester, Massachusetts, graduating in 1941. After college, Potter […]

FREEPORT — Mary L. (Horton) Brown, 98, of Freeport, died March 14, at the Hawthorne House. She was born July 9, 1917, in Port Huron, Michigan, the daughter of Henry Horton and Maude Stephens. She attended schools in Michigan and Tucson, Arizona. As a teen, Brown worked for her uncle at Acme Printing Co. in […]

PORTLAND — Sandra D. (Chaneski) Perry Wysowski, 64, of Portland, died at home March 13, after a short battle with cancer. She was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on Sept. 10, 1951, the daughter of the late Walter Chaneski and Florence Donald. Wysowski moved with her family to Portland at the age of 5, […]