BRUNSWICK – Kathy Lou Labbe of Freeport, 78, died Tuesday Feb. 6, 2024. Kathy died following complications from knee replacement surgery. …
Obituaries
Paid local obituaries from the Portland Press Herald.
Obituary: Judith A. Tousignant
HEBRON – It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Judy, a woman whose life was a tapestry …
Obituary: Milton L. Hallowell
CAPE ELIZABETH – Milton “Milt” L. Hallowell, long time resident of Cape Elizabeth, passed away on Feb. 5, 2024, after a …
Obituary: Gareth Scott Anderson
HARPSWELL – Gareth Scott Anderson, 89, of Harpswell, passed peacefully on Feb. 8, 2024. He was a lifelong resident of Harpswell.
He …
Obituary: Earle H. Cooper
FAIRFIELD – Earle “Pete” Cooper, 83, passed away on Feb. 8, 2024 in Fairfield.
Full obituary and an online guest book is …
Randy Sparks, who gave folk music a big choral sound, dies at 90
Randy Sparks, a folk music maestro who crafted choral odes, ballads and ditties of droll wit such as “Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio” during the 1960s folk revival and who nurtured a host of future stars including Kenny Rogers and John Denver, died Feb. 11 in San Diego. He was 90. Sparks had health problems […]
Brooke Ellison, resilient disability rights activist, dies at 45
Brooke Ellison’s “first life,” as she called it, ended on Sept. 4, 1990, when she was 11 years old. It was the day before the start of seventh grade. She was crossing a busy street on her walk home from orientation at her junior high school in Stony Brook, Long Island, when she was hit […]
Ross Gelbspan, author who probed roots of climate change denial, dies at 84
Ross Gelbspan, a journalist and author who followed the money trail of climate change denial, exposing how the energy industry and lobbyists pushed narratives to counter overwhelming evidence that use of fossil fuels was driving global warming, died Jan. 27 at his home in Boston. He was 84. The death was announced by his family. […]
Obituary: Nicholas “Nick” Joseph Naples Sr.
GLASTONBURY, Conn. – In sadness, Nicholas “Nick” Joseph Naples, Sr., 92, of Glastonbury Conn., born Sept. 7, 1931, in Portland, passed …
Obituary: Roberta (Roak) Foltz
GORHAM – Roberta (Roak) Foltz, 80, of Grants Pass, Ore., died Jan. 11, 2024 at the Gorham House in Gorham.
Roberta grew …