Richmond Social Items Highlight Local Weddings and Club News
A reception at Odd Fellows hall celebrated Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Call’s July marriage with 50 relatives present. Mrs Peggy Lewis received farewell gifts in Brunswick with Pushard Guiou Post auxiliary members attending. Various grange and Rebekah Lodge activities filled the week, plus personal notices of travels and hospital visits across the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odd Fellows Hall
Lawrence Call
Margaret Mullen
Clara Foster
Eva Douglass
Belle Meserve
Call
Dresen
Pushard- Guiou Post Auxiliary
Brunswick
Peggy Lewis
Arizona
Sadie Eaton
Helen Lothridge
Gertrude Riley
Marie Morissette
Viola James
Addie Lemieux
Eddie Crosby
The
Post
Enterprise Grange
Progressive Grange
Benton Grange
G. C. Marriner
Leon Batchelder
James Jones
Progressive
Horace Hinckley
William Sullivan
Walter Knight
Wesley Webber
Chester Foster
Clarence Dunbar
Bertha Curtis
Ceres
Mina Janotte
Pomona
Minnie. Batchelder
Flora
George Johnson
Edwin Stewart
Everett Douglass
Monmouth Grange
Albert
Flora Darrah
United States
Ethel Harley
Dirigo Grange
Beulah Rebekah Lodge
Noble
Margaret Allen
Ethel Pinkham
Charles Trott
Elizabeth Haynes
Lois V. Kimball
George Kimball
Fuller Street
Leroy F. Gower
Harold Gower
Randolph Methodist Community Church
Howard Benson
Jean Hutchins
James Gower
Winfield Hall
Maurice Wheeler
Hall
Montreal
Lowell Savage
Lowell David
Lynne
Nashua
N. H
Russell Ring
Smithfield
Wesley Hinckley
Terri
Chris
Dayton, O
Hinckley
Thomas Hinckley
North Front Street
James Fields
Sampson Street
Portsmouth Naval Hospital
Kittery
Arthur Benson
Middleboro
Mass
Leslie Roberts
Center Street
Opal Pickett
Blaine
Walter
Orin Pickett
Upton
Wyo
Ruth Stitphen
Helen Easler
Mt. Pleasant
Massachusetts
Lancaster
Margaret Borjesson
California
Belle Hatch
South Front Street
Crabtree
Hallowell
Dresden Social News Highlights Guests and Reunions
Miss Thelma Chamberlain visits Washington guesthouse. Boston and Augusta residents attend summer events. A Getchell family reunion near Getchel homestead honors Mrs Getchell on her 90th birthday. Seventy four attend with nineteen house guests over the weekend including Neil Handren and Alfred Isaacson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thelma Chamberlain
Washington, D. C
A. Henry Thurston
Karl Rittall
Jeanne
Columbus
Ray Cate
Dresden Mills
Edward Goud
Lyndel Goud
June Bailey
Charles Bartlett
Harry
Augusta
Hope Ward
Lyndel Good
Hamilton Bailey
Rehoboth
Mass
Call's Hill
Clifford
Kenneth Chapman
Boston
Tanley Chapman
Leslie Souviney
University of Maine
Crummett
St. John's Episcopal Church
Robert Hayman
New York
Pearl Osgood
Everett
H. L. Sheldon
Clayton Mayers
Getchel Homestead
Oliver Getchell
Ray
James Cameron
West Dresden
Cameron
Getchell
Guy Getchell
Theodore
Ala
Augustus Perkins
South Dresden
Herbert Getchell
Hermon
Guy
Fred Getchell
Ezra Butler
Gorham
Grace Brown
Portland
Alfred Houdlette
Audrey
Bath
Melville Houdlette
Philip
Richard
John Houdlette
Meriden
Conn
Harry Getchell
Ray Getchell
Gary
Lynn
Neil Handren
San Diego
Calif
Alfred Isaacson
Mobile
Shumway Named Sagadahoc County Director for 1954 Emergency March of Dimes
Leslie C. Shumway of Bath is appointed Sagadahoc county director of the 1954 Emergency March of Dimes. Harold J. Rubin says the Bath chapter joins 3100 national chapters to raise funds for patient care and polio treatment as county needs grow. The piece notes $26,500,000 spent to increase gamma globulin supply and vaccine trials for 625,000 schoolchildren, with Bath chapter funds nearly exhausted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie C. Shumway
High Street
Shumway
Sagadahoc
Harold J. Rubin
National Foundation
Bath
Peace and community drive in Georgetown church and summer events
In Georgetown, First Baptist pastor Warren Harris preached on peace from St John, chapters 14. The annual sale and supper at Central School drew volunteers from Georgetown Center Five Islands Bath Road Kennebec Point and Little River, with committee leaders listed. A Robinhood Tea Room benefit and other town gatherings followed, highlighting community spirit and seasonal activities amid rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Warren Harris
St. John
Orking League
Faws
Central School
Katharine Blackie
Jo Shain
Maude Todd
Marjorie Hagan
Stella Williams
Morris Levine
Kay Fuller
Edith Horne
Belle Heald
Agnes Reynolds
Jo Newman
Doris Calhoun
Ethel Higgins
Blackie
Louise Powers
Nancy Hagan
Sherry Rowe
Nancy Tibbetts
Franny Wren
Polly Hill
Betsy Holt
Debby Brewster
Lucy Lippard
Edie Williamson
Christine Williams
Hazel Gay
George Flynn
Cordelia Rowe
Ruth Kosalka
Dorothy Oliver
Josephine Newman
Marjorie Oliver
Florence Hunt
Marie Hill
Helen Peacock
Anne Graffam
Martha Bowen
Sally Lewis
Georgetown Center
Five Islands
Bath Roads
Kennebec Point
Marrtown
West Georgetown
Little River
Georgetown
Robinhood
Robert Tristam Coffin
John Holt
Greece
Sheepscot
Orvis
Deane Bonney
Bath
Lewiston
M. Belle Heald
Philip Rizzo
Pennsylvania
Campbell
Mercury
Scott
Woolwich
Bay Point Vacation Notices and Cottage Stays
Bay Point reports quiet vacation activity with families renting cottages for August. North Dedham and Dedham residents occupy Lil lian White's and E. O. Tukey cottages for two weeks and one month respectively. Arlington and Hempstead visitors also staying at Swift and Linger Longer cottages for two weeks and a month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Scheiner
North Dedham
Mass
Lillian White
Edward Sullivan
Dedham
E. O. Tukey
M. Mehan
Arlington
Swift Cottage
Robert Miller
Bath
Bay Point Panier
Point
Fred P Taylor
Auburn
Richard Shield
Newton Mass
Maple Lodge
Dwight Furbish
Eleanor Gilles
Brunswick
Five Islands Vacation Bible School Opens With 53 Enrolled
Five Islands Daily Vacation Bible School began Monday at the church with 53 children enrolled and runs through August 20. Directors are Miss Helen Eckman and Miss Lois Gage with local teachers and helpers including Mrs. William Marr and Warren Harris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Eckman
Lois Gage
New England Fellowship
William Marr
Warren Harris
Russell Pinkham
Reginald Church
Robert Snow
Harlan Pinkham
Good Neighbor Club
Woodrow Gray
Cemetery Association
Reynolds Grover
Frank Blake
Lincoln Campbell
Five Islands Community Club
Newburyport
Five Islands
Five Islands Gears Up for Annual Art Show
The third annual Five Islands Community Club art show will run August 21 22 and 23 at Howard's Hall. Entries arrive from Alaska to Florida and across New England. Judges include Forrest Orr James Elliott and More. Bath artists like the Butterfields George Dearborn and the Donnells are expected to enter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Five Islands Community Club
Howard's Hall
Washington
Florida
California
mid-West
Arizona
New England
Middle Atlantic
Nathaniel J. Hasenfus
Community Club
Felix Salomoni
Lynn
Fred White
Winthrop
Gordon Clarke
Melvin Comeau
Bath
Forrest Orr
South Harpswell
Norfolk
Mass
James Elliott
Portland
James Boylin
New York
Philadelphia
Southard Menzel
Boston
Southport
Boothbay
Roy Grover
Five Islands
Butterfields
George Dearborn
Stanley Greene
Donnells
Obituary Raymond Ferris 30 North Tarrytown NOV
Raymond Ferris of North Tarrytown died Friday in Tarrytown after a brief illness. He was 30, widowed Ruth M. Small of Bath, daughter of Ralph F Small. Ferris worked for the Society of Automotive Engineers and was a University of Pennsylvania graduate. Funeral services were held Saturday in Tarrytown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Ferris
North Tarrytown
Tarrytown
Ruth M. Small
Bath
Ralph F Small
Ferris
The
Society of Automotive Engineers
University of Pennsylvania
John G Stinson Funeral Held in Woolwich
Funeral services for John G Stinson of Woolwich were held Saturday at 2 PM at Curtis Funeral Home in Woolwich. Rev Dr David L Wilson officiated with bearers Bryant, Percy Roderick, Bernard Fraser and Robert Marton. Burial followed in Riverside Cemetery Woolwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John G Stinson
Woolwich
Curtis Funeral Home
Washington Street
David L. Wilson
Mr. Bryant
Percy Roderick
Bernard Fraser
Robert Marton
Riverside Cemetery
Blanche Bunker dies of heart attack in California
Mrs Blanche Jewett Bunker of Los Angeles died of a heart attack at a cousin’s home in Milton Massachusetts after traveling from the West Coast on Tuesday She was born in Georgetown in 1869 daughter of Captain James O Beal She later lived in West Medway and Los Angeles with her husband Charles Bunker the coffee king She is survived by three sons a sister and other relatives Prayers were held in Milton and burial is in Forest Lawn Glendale California
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leah E. Strout
Winneyance
Blanche Jewett Bunker
Los Angeles
Calif
Mass Grace Ferry
Milton
Mass
James O
Martha (Dempster) Beal
Georgetown
Boston
Burdette Business College
Charles Bunker
New England
London
Eng
Bunker
West Medway
Charles M. Beals
Harvey P. Hathorne
Woolwich
Charles Hunnewell
Sagadahoc Ferry
Charles Barrows
Mr. Bunker
Charles L. Barrows
Huntington Park
William B
Frederick Beal Barrows
Hollywood
Winneganee
California
Bath
Glendale
Forest Lawn Cemetery
William H. Murray Rites Held for Bath Memorial Worker
William H. Murray 66 longtime Bath Memorial hospital maintenance worker died at his home 18 Dummer Street after months of failing health. Born in Dorchester Massachusetts on July 9 1888 he lived there in youth and later worked as a pipefitter at Bath Iron Works. Surviving include widow Lena Burgess Murray six sons three daughters a stepdaughter three stepsons and a sister. Funeral Thursday at two at the Seventh day Adventist church with Rev Tracy S Hill officiating. Burial in Oak Grove family lot. Friends may visit Wednesday at Leslie S Shumway 638 High Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Murray
Bath Memorial Hospital
Dummer Street
Mr. Murray
Dorchester
Mass
Bath Iron Works
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Elmer W. Allen, 73, Bath resident, dies after illness
Elmer Wesley Allen of Shenandoah road Bath died Monday morning at Bath Memorial hospital after a short illness. A former Maine Central Railroad crossing tender at Washington street, he came to Bath 25 years ago. Born January 29, 1881 in Hallowell he attended public schools and Colby College, class of 1904, where he belonged to ATO and played baseball and basketball. He played semi pro ball in Kennealy Ti years. Surviving are a son Bruce Allen of Portland and three grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Wesley Allen
Shenandoah Road
Bath Memorial Hospital
Allen
Maine Central Railroad
Washington Street
Bath
Hallowell
Lorn C
Margaret R. Allen
Colby College
ATO Fraternity
Colby
Kenneley Ti
Bruce Allen
Portland
William Rankin 81 Dies After Heart Attack in Boston
William Rankin 81 a Boston building contractor died July 28 in a Boston hospital after a heart attack. Born March 14 1873 in Prince Edward Island he lived most of his life in Boston and visit Bath to see sister Mrs Susan J Leeman and niece Mrs Blanche Locke at 24 Cummings St. Survived by two sons Charles and Parkman Rankin of Albany N Y one sister Mrs Leeman two brothers Charles and John Rankin. Funeral held at Gra ham Funeral Parlors Boston with burial in Mt Hope Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Rankin
Boston
Prince Edward Island
John
Margaret
Myers) Rankin
Mr. Rankin
Bath
Susan J. Leeman
Blanche Locke
Cummings Street
Tremont Temple
Masonic Lodges
Massachusetts
Charles
Parkman Rankin
Albany
N. Y
Mrs. Leeman
John Rankin
Graham Funeral
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Death of John G. Stinson 63 in Hartford Connecticut
John G. Stinson, 63, a Woolwich native who lived in Bath and later Hartford, died Thursday in Hartford after moving there a year ago. Born July 2, 1891 in Woolwich, he worked at Bath Canning Co. then Pratt Whitney Co. He attended Winter Street Congregational church and is survived by his wife Inez Parson Stinson, six children Leone Crosby, Margaret Thiboutot, Joan Durgan, Edgar, Alton, a sister Ruth Doyle, two brothers Everson and Arthur, 15 grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John G. Stinson
Woolwich
Hartford
Conn
Stinson
Bath
Bath Canning Co
Pratt Whitney Co
Winter Street Congregational Church
Inez Parson Stinson
Leone Crosby
South Portland
Margaret Thiboutot
Brunswick
Joan Durgan
Portsmouth
N. H
Edgar
Bath and Alton
Ruth Doyle
Everson
Arthur
Edith Fiedler 81 Bath native dies in Honolulu
Edith Fiedler 81 a former Bath resident died in Honolulu where she had lived with her husband Charles Fiedler for over 30 years She was born February 17 1873 in Saint John New Brunswick She was widow of Capt William G Small of Bath a tugboat operator who died in 1918 Survived by husband three sons Harold P Small former Bath mayor Ralph and William A Small of Bath a daughter Marion Wilson of Honolulu a sister Ethel Cleaves of Hyannis Mass nine grandchildren and several nieces and nephews
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Goddard
Dingley’s Island
George Blackwell, Jr
New Jersey
Chester B. Kelsea
Seguinland
A. E. Riley
Falmouth
Frederick Wilson
Riley
Harold J Brown
Howard Sewall
Gardiner
Roy J. Campbell
Robinhood
Paul Lehman
Princeton
N. J
Allen
MacMahan
Charles Donahue
Charles
Allen Cottage
Harold Hersey
Winthrop
Mass
Roscoe Scott
Westfield
Scott
Helen Wells
Roy M. Newman
Georgetown Center
St. Albans
Massachusetts
William A. Todd
Newman
Harry Stone
Bay Point
Elizabeth Thompson
Jessie Addams
Pemaquid
Lawrence Cloutier
Augusta
Gaspe Peninsula
Marion Turner
Marion Louise Pinkham
New Canaan
Totman
Carroll Powers
Robinhood's Cove
Connecticut
Edith Fiedler
Bath
Honolulu
Charles Fiedler
St. John
N. B
Harold P. Small
Ralph
William A
Marion Wilson
Ethel Cleaves
Hyannis
Summer visit linked with Ridgewood Plant relatives
Mrs Stephen Plant of Ridgewood New Jersey is enjoying a summer visit with Bath relatives Mr and Mrs Chester Plant Mr and Mrs Wallace Plant of High street and Mrs Fred Cary in East Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Plant
Ridgewood, N. J
Bath
Chester Plant
Mrs. Wallace Plant
High Street
Fred Cary
East Brunswick
Funeral service knowledge challenged by public ignorance
An editorial asserts the public lacks funeral service knowledge and offers to answer questions from interested readers. It notes wills life insurance and cemetery planning occur with little understanding of funeral customs and criticizes misleading magazine coverage.
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Charles Moore
Herbert Moore
Belmont
Eugene Sukeforth
Jackie Williams
Leona Tibbetts
Earge
William McKellar
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Clarence Oliver
Sea Beach
Fred P. Oliver
Wakefield
Calais
Reid Park
Red House
Harmon's Harbor
Joseph Goulden
New York City
Ernest Hewitt
Stamford
Waldoboro High School
Marjorie Keating
Quincy
Mortimer B. Lamehick
Providence
R. I
Loring Hart
Effie M. Smith
George Smith
Gertrude Smith
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Eleanor Davis
Vincent Davis
Leominster
Lester Davis
Marion Stevens
Exeter
J. G. Stevens
McLaughlin
Frank Allard
South Danville
Richard Embley
Somerville
Winnifred
Susan Briggs
Charles Kelley
Margaret MacMahan
MacNeil
William Blenn
Virginia
Blenn
Elsie Wiswall
Rockland
Lester Lewis
Parker Start
Melrose
Start
Marr Lottage
Smith
Sedgemere
George D Boulter
Annie Chesbro
Shaw
D. W. Staffeld
Rockcrest
Lewis Susan
Morris Plains
Winnifred Briggs
Susan _— Briggs
William S. Farr
Merry Meeting Girls Camp
Arthur Webster
Cincinnati
Ohio
Arthur Marr, Jr
Malden
Marr Cottage
Man
Paul Gaudreau
Bethel
Andrew Rowe
Fred Staples
Arnold
Harry Newell
Ray Gilpatrick
Edith Kanter
Stephen
Blake Cottage
Orissa Carr
Central
Maine General Hospital
Leon Kelley
Effie
Howard Bacon
Sebasco
Arthur Beattie
Welchville
Roger Williams
Mechanic
Carlton Hinckley
Charles Hinckley
Hinckley Cottage
F. E. Sampson
Medford
Payson Brett and Sons
Pierce’ Marine Service
Evinrude Sales & Service Phone
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Memorial Hospital
Maine Central
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Keaneber Greene
Hartford, Conn