Richmond Engagments and Staff Changes Report
The Richmond area announces engagements Shirley Ann Vieira to Donald Coun of Columbia Pa and Norma Jean McCormick to Lt David Butterfield of Hawthorne N J. Resignations and hires include Rev Richard L Whitman leaving Sept 1 and teaching moves for Gerald Briggs and Robert Heffler to Brunswick and South Paris. Personal items list local visits and trips across Maine New England and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Vieira
Spruce Street
Shirley Ann
Donald Coun
Earl Colin
Columbia
Vieira
Richmond High School
Colin
Girard College
Pennsyyvania
Brunswick Naval Air Station
John A. McCormick
North Pleasant Street
Norma Jean McCormick
David Butterfield
Joseph Butterfield
Hawthorne
N. J
Butterfield
McCormick
University of Maine
Maine Medical School of Nursing
Maine General Hospital
Portland
Vermont Academy
Saxton’s River
Korea
Fort Dix
Richard L. Whitman
Methodist
Richmond
Dresden Mills
South Dresden
Alfred G. Hempstead
Gerald Briggs
Richmondigh School
South Paris
Briggs
Norway
Robert Heffler
Emerson School
Brunswick
Heffler
Houston
Texas
Manlius Preparatory School
Manlius
N. Y
Marines
Seventh Day Adventist
Fryehall
Beulah Rebekah Lodge
Persis Bates
Joseph A. Savoie
Louisville
Inez Savoie
George Despeaux
West Somerville
Mass
Charles Davis
Raymond Libby
Washington County
John Gallant
Wyandotte
Mich
Gerald Witham
Maine
New Hampshire
Eugene Purington
Litchfield
M. W. Douglass
Helen Lothridge
Augusta General Hospital
Georgetown Morning Service and Local Celebrations
At First Baptist Georgetown Warren Harris spoke on I Cor 1 18 stressing that bodies and souls belong to God. A surprise party honored Mr and Mrs Philip Campbell on their 50th anniversary at Harmon's Harbor with many relatives and gifts including fifty golden gladioli. House gatherings, outdoor cookouts, and visits across Maine featured the community as autumn nears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Warren Harris
Joseph Brehm
West Harpswell Baptist Church
Brehm
Philip Campbell
Harmon’s Harbor
Natt Hasenfus
Francis Pierce
Five Islands
Francis Hartzell
Bath
Richard
Walter
David
Marie
Paul Hasenfus
Ruth
Calvin Hartzell
Ralph Winship
Freddie
Marion Scott
Weston
Mass
Pierce
Barbara Jean Pratt
Sandra
Theodore Campbell
Mary
William Prindel
Wayne
Marcia
Bowdoinham
Oakley Thibodeau
Camelia
Topsfield
Wallace Moore
Naomi
Linda
Neil
West Boothbay Harbor
Melvin Comeau
Menzel Southard
Boston
Campbell
Jeremy
Daniel
Tommie
Richard Harrison
Cleon Mains
Robert Pow- Tommy
Peter Zorach
Jan White
Jackie Laskey
Peter Cook
Edith
Faith Powers
Edith Laskey
Penny Bradley
Robinhood Cove
Allen Adriance
William Zorach
Tessim Zorach
Adolph Spear
William Harrison
George DeWolf
Jackson
Daniel Bliss
George Kahrl
Reynolds
Augusta
Alvah Reynolds
J. W. McArthur
Josephine Skinner
Montclair
N. J
Mae Skinner
Elizabeth Thompson
Thompson
Walter Stevens
Bath Memorial Hospital
William J. Clarey
Youngstown
Edward J. Clarey
Maine
Ohio
Thora Berggreen
Gunnar
Dixie Oliver
Willard Oliver
Sherry Rowe
Alfred Rowe
New midshipmen join U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis
About 1 100 plebes arrive at Annapolis Md to begin indoc trination ahead of the 1959 graduation. Edson H Whitehurst of Bath is among the new cadets after attending Columbian Preparatory School and Morse High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Edson H. Whitehurst
Bath
Whitehurst
Columbian Preparatory School
Washington, D. C
Morse High School
Naval Reserve
Boothbay Harbor Tops Wiscasset 11 8 in Sagadahoc League Affair
Gray delivered a three run homer in the bottom of the eighth, breaking an 8 8 tie as Boothbay Harbor defeated Wiscasset A C. Tuesday at Boothbay. After an 8 8 deadlock the eighth inning produced two baserunners before Gray's game winning blast. Two makeup games were scheduled for Thursday with BIW facing Wiscasset and Boothbay Harbor visiting Bath to play the Eagles at Kelly Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gray
Boothbay Harbor
Wiscasset A. C
Lincoln
Boothbay
Wiscasset
Stan Sherman
Bob Bowman
BIW
Bath
Eagles
Kelley Field
Skeet Field at North Bath Opens Twice Weekly
The skeet field at North Bath will open with instruction for beginners. It will be open every Wednesday at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 10 a.m. The Sagadahoc Rod, Gun & Skeet Association sponsors the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bath
Sagadahoc Rod, Gun & Skeet Association
Yacht Club Rendezvous Picnic at Sandy Cove Beach
Members of the New Meadows Yacht Club and guests will rendezvous at Sandy Cove Beach for a picnic supper. Boats depart the clubhouse float at Rich's Mountain at 2 p.m. Transport by water available from Howard Mayo or Jack Berry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yacht Club
New Meadows Yacht Club
Sandy Cove Beach
Rich's Mountain
Howard Mayo
High Street
Jack Berry
Front Street
Five Islands Church Notes and Seasonal Events
Morning and evening services drew attendees at Five Islands church with music by Lloyd Pinkham Woodrow Gray and guests from Harpswell Baptist. Weather slowed the church addition work as roof boards go on and shingling follows. Saturday sales by Good Neighbor club feature home made foods aprons and rummage. A well attended lobster supper benefited the Library Association. Local families and visitors are noted at various birthdays anniversaries and gatherings across Bath Seboomook and nearby sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Pinkham
Woodrow Gray
Pinkham
William Marr
Brehm
Harpswell Baptist Church
Howards Hall
Good Neighbor Club
Library Association
Russell Harford
Christine Harford
Bath
Carol Cochrane
Arthur Cochrane
Philip Campbell
Seguinland
Erland Moore
Melvin Comeau
Richard Hanna
Bath Memorial Hospital
Walter Stevens
Cpl
Cleon Pinkham
W. B. Cram
Fred Lilly
Ella Hewins
Hallowell
Walter Moore
Cram
Five Islands
Philip Pinkham
Harlan Pinkham
Dennis Moore
Hollis Center
Serepta Pinfold
Kent Shoemaker
Naperville
Wilmert Wolf
Lewis Merry
Newport
Franklin Koehlwetter
Stanley
West Gorham
Georgie Pinkham
George Middleton
Robert Gallagher
Byron Hammond
David and
Byron
Mary Gaudette
Annie Brooks
Pauline Staples
Abraham Shooker
Alfred Procter
John V. Blasi
A. R. Dougherty
Foxboro
Mass
Helen Cannon
Katherine Gamble
Myrna Basom
Montclair
Marr
Thomas Hanna
Hanna
Lulu Hanna
Richard Start
Melrose
Delbert Page
Laconia
Morris Plains
N. J
Robert Snow
Massachusetts
Elaine
James Hyde
Topsham
George Gray
Beulah Miller
MacMahan Island
Russell Patten, Jr
Malden Island
I. E. Keeble
Washington, D. C
Jiacob Kunz
Washington
Richard Freeman
Worcester
Barbara Jean Pratt
Portland
Paul Skidmore
West Gardiner
Francis Pierce
Walter Hasenfus
Bay Point social guests visit summer cottages at Boothbay Harbor
Bay Point residents hosted and visited numerous relatives and guests over the weekend and week at Butterfield and Perow cottages and nearby inns. Names include Albert Coombs, Bruce Young, Joan Taylor, and many Coombs, Hagan, and Butterfield family members from Bath Auburn Belmon Mass Bay Point and Boothbay Harbor attended or hosted gatherings and art show attendance at Five Islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Coombs
Butterfield Cottage
Bruce Young
Winchester
Mass
Boothbay Harbor
Thomas Hagan
Joan Taylor
Bath
William Hartley
Billy
Massachusetts
Green Pastures
Butterfield Cottages
Llewellyn Rogers
Carolyn Rogers
Merle Niles
Charles Kiessling
Dedham
Rockledge
Albert Coombe
Julius Appleton
Allen
Springfield
Clyde Whittaker
Perow Cottage
Clayton Taylor
Joan B. Taylor
Hagan
Auburn
Richard T. Hagan
Taylor Cottage
Harry Stone
Lewiston
Blanche Coombs
Richard Hagan
Diana Long
Ruth Keen
Robert Miller
Irma Young
E. Holmes
Andrew Butterfield
Walter Coombs
Eleanor Coombs
Alison Coombs
Joseph Perow
Alfred Perow
Perow
Lucille Blake
Emery Rideout
Dwight Furbish
Bay Point
Pemaquid
Nathaniel Hasenfus
Marie
David
Paul
Baird
L. M. Spinney
Harold Robinson
BIW Employees Golf Tourney Set for Saturday
The Bath Iron Works Recreation Association sponsors an annual golf tournament at the Bath Golf Club. The course stays open to the public while BIW players receive priority. A large field of entrants is expected for this established event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Iron Works Recreation Association
Bath Golf Club
Recreation Association
Social notes and visits across Maine and Massachusetts
A series of visits and family gatherings are recorded from Bath Nobleboro and Cambridge with guests from Kittery Lynn Watertown Melrose Allston Cambridge and New York City. Notable stops include Gordon Clark Kenneth Florence and Clifford Florence at a cottage in Cambridge and a birthday dinner for Gordon Clark. Also includes a cooking tip for preparing artichokes with sauce and butter or Hollandaise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathaniel Hasenfus
Navy
Carl Rowe
Carl, Jr
Kittery
Harold A. Rowe
Philip Blake
Billerica
Mass
Frank Blake
Ray A Gilpatrick
Katherine Ames
Nobleboro
George Lowell
Ray Gilpatrick
Walter Verge
Melrose
Blakes
Phyllis Mason
Bath
Gay Ginn
Lawrence Bailey
Gordon Clark
Kenneth Florence
Lynn
Fred S. Sheffer
Cambridge
Feliy Salomone
Florence and
Clifford
Lester Erckwear
Paulette
Watertown
A. Lewis
Allston
Dorothy Patten
L. D’sapio
New York City
Marrtown Happenings: Summer Guests and Local News
Marrtown residents share social updates with visits from Gardiner, Cambridge, and Scarsdale guests. A mix of renovations, travels, and seaside days frames the community weekly and notes relocations and anniversaries at Broad Cove and local homes.
Obituary for Ralph Gay Bath resident and longtime public servant
Ralph Gay, 60, traffic manager at Hyde Windlass Co., died Wednesday at Bath Memorial Hospital after months of failing health. A Bath native, he served eight years on the Board of Assessors and sat on the Common Council under the old city government. He helped finance and build the Legion building as a key Smith-Tobey Post member and past commander. A Morse High School graduate, he joined the Colonial Steamship Co. in 1915 and the Hyde Windlass Co. in 1916, rising to traffic manager after World War I. He belonged to St. Marys Church and the Colonial club. Survived by his widow Arline McNeill Gay, two sisters, and two nieces and four nephews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Gay
Hyde Windlass Co
Bath Memorial Hospital
Bath
Mr. Gay
Edmond T
Margaret Murphy Gay
Smith-Tobey Post
A. L
Legion
Gay
Colonial Club
Morse High School
Boston
Colonial Steamship Co
St. Mary's Church
Arline McNeill Gay
City
Fred Garnsey
Sanford
Arthur Worthington
Rockville Center
N. Y
Lancelot Cooper Former Gardiner Coach Dies in Lexington
Funeral services planned at Unitarian church in Lexington Massachusetts for Lancelot Cooper 43 a former Gardiner High School coach who died in Lexington He previously directed sports for five years at Gardiner and coached at Coburn Bar Harbor and later moved to Lexington Survivors include his wife Adeline Fearnby a son Lance a daughter Linda his mother from Brockton and his brother Richard overseas YMCA worker and uncle Earle Cooper of Woolwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unitarian Church
Lexington
Mass
Lancelot Cooper
Gardiner
Bath Iron Works Corp
Cony High School
University of New Hampshire
Springfield College
Springfield
Coburn
Bar Harbor
Brockton
Adeline Fearnby
Augusta
Lance
Linda
Richard
Earle Cooper
Woolwich
A. H. MacRonald of Bath Dies in New Haven Conn
A. H. MacRonald formerly of Bath died in New Haven Connecticut after living in Bath while employed at Bath Iron Works and Hyde Windlass. He attended Grace Episcopal Church and is survived by a daughter Mrs. George Walker of New Haven, a grandson Kenneth MacRonald of Reading, and Sidney. His wife Lillian Mayo MacRonald died in 1948.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Macronald
New Haven
Conn
Bath
MacRonald
Bath Iron Works Corp
Hyde Windlass Co
City Assessors
Grace Epicopal Church
George Walker
Kenneth MacRonald
Reading
Mass
Sidney
Legion Cadets Ready for Busy Weekend Parade Contests
Bath's Legion Cadets join two weekend parades the Portland celebration parade Saturday afternoon and the Dover centennial parade Sunday. They lead the Portland march, with TV coverage and a trophy for best musical unit and best float. At Dover they compete at 2 PM for one of nine cash prizes totaling fifteen hundred dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Legion Cadets
Portland
Dover
Eastern Promenade
New England
Local Bike Safety Program Saturday at Bath PTA Hall
All local bicycle riders are invited to attend a safety program at 10 am Saturday at the South End P T A hall. The Bath Junior Bicycle club will present a program and movies under the direction of State Trooper Herman J. Boudreau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South End
P. T. A. Hall
Bath Junior Bicycle Club
Herman J. Boudreau
Gilbert H. Fowles, Bath Iron Works foreman, dies at 71
Gilbert H. Fowles, 71, a retired Bath Iron Works foreman, died Sunday at a local nursing home after a long illness. Born in Boothbay on December 21, 1883, he was the son of John W. and Ella G. Poole Fowles. Survived by his widow Ina, a son G Hudson Fowles of Bath, a daughter Mrs. Lewis Swett of Bath, two stepdaughters Mrs. Clarence Pye and Miss Ethel Faucher of Bath, a brother Herman A. Fowles of South Windham, and several nieces and nephews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert H. Fowles
Bath Iron Works
Boothbay
John W
Ella G. Poole Fowles
Foremen’s Club
Ina
G Hudson Fowles
Bath
Lewis Swett
Clarence Pye
Ethel Faucher
Herman A. Fowles
South Windham
Funeral for Gilbert H. Fowles Held at Local Residence
Funeral services for Gilbert H. Fowles were conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2 from A. F. Mayo & Son Funeral residence with Rev. Richard Arnold officiating. Bearers from Bath Iron Works Foreman's club included Stanley Brown Howard Nash George Costain Alphonse Turcotte Ed gar Oliver and Lyman Daup hinie. Burial was in the family lot in Rummell cemetery Wiscasset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Fowles
Gilbert H. Fowles
A. F. Mayo & Son
Richard Arnold
Beacon Street Methodist Church
Stanley Brown
Howard Nash
George Costain
Alphonse Turcotte
Edgar Oliver
Lyman Dauphinie
Bath Iron Works
Fowles
Buria
Rummell Cemetery
Wiscasset
Requiem Mass for Mrs Marguerite Manso
A high Mass was sung Friday at eight at St Mary’s RC Church for Mrs Marguerite Manso with Fr John E Bellefontaine presiding. Committal at Oak Grove family plot followed, conducted by Fr Lucien Grondin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marguerite Manso
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church
John E. Bellefontaine
Oak Grove
Lucien Grondin
Also Mentioned on This Page
Edith Berry
Fred Douglass
Joyce
Bowdeinham
Fred Douglass, Jr
Myron Douglass
Camden
John Parker
Water Street
Carleton McCobb
Dresden
Vincent Marchese
Daniel Danforth
Guilford
John G. Grainger
Lincoln Street
M. Consuelo
Eleanor Grainger
M. Ellen Francis
Penns Grove
Georgetown
Clayton E. Stevens
Civil Service
Brunswick Naval
Joseph I. Pouliot
U. S. Navy
Antonio Pouliot
Robinson Lane
Arctic Circle
Lindenwald
Norfolk
Gerald L. Cogan
Ore
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Medical
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
Proving Ground
Greater New York Dental Association
St. Cogan
Bowdoin College
University of Portland
Oregon
University of Oregon Dental School
Portland Public Schools
David Cogan
Zadell Myerson
the Proving Ground
Chesapeake Gardens
Aberdeen St
Gladys Weeman
William Jackson
Eva McLean
David Bailey
Montreal
Can
Peterson Grounds
Alfred Farrow
Mark
Philadelphia
Robinhood Village
Edward C. Clarey
Parviz Chahbazi
Peterson
Tehran
Iran
Mansour
Chahbazi
Carol Farrow
Eileen Stevenson
Farrow
Robinhood
Melvin Jackson
Clifford Barger
Brookline
George Biddle
Zorach
Inlaw
Jason Schoener
Roscoe P. Todd
Warren S. Todd
Stoneham
Pamela Hatch
Damariscotta
James Oliver
Mads Peterson
Harold J. Brown
Kennebec Point
Lucien Dancause
Gerald M. York
Edwin F. Sussa, Jr
Wynwood
MacMahan
Georgetown Parsonage
Gilbert Haley
Exeter
N. H
Clifton Hartman
Island Falls
Brooklyn
England
Dero
Bea Saunders
A. Main, Jr
Feeney
Sabo
I Mank
R Cummings
Wirta
Bourgoin
Craige
Mullin
Tabor
Snell
Holmsen
Barsness
Honsinger Wilson
Thurston
Fisher
W Rogers
Nelson
G Perry
McCabe
Cc Turcotte
J Daley
H Teasdale
Heenie
Strube
McLaughlin
If Brown
W Kelley
J Leonard
Morton
Hogan
Turcotte
Perry
H MacMahan
Bonney
Bolduc
Underwood
H Potter
Varney
E Pierce
Brown
Pecci
E Horner
Scully
MelInnes
Conroy
Winchenbach
Young
Buck
Eaton
Main, Jr
Parks, Jr
Gallagher
R. Parks
Hall, Jr
Povich
S Commeau
Tn Oliver
Mank
Mullin l Toothaker
Dougherty
Ik Hersom
Doyle
Bailey
Talbot Poole
McCole
E Barsness
Wilson
E. Lee
Wade
Rice Caverly
G Barker
Leonard
Cc Pye
M Mitchell
Pratt
Wiscasset Club
Marrtown
Mildred Reay
Harold I. Goss
Gray Gulls
Arthur Goselin
Lincoln Harlowe
Edward Foote
Clifton Winn
William A.hern
Amherst
Alan H. Stenning
Stenning
Willard Sprague
Hartford
Honus Hicks
Orin Winn
Charles Winn
Betty Jane
Peggy
Clarence Skelfield
Perkins Island Light
Squirrel Point Light
Prof
Nabholz
Peggy Winn
Frecky
Kennebec
Lund
Madelyn
Jean
Scarsdale
Broad Cove
Helen Coyne
George Clarvoe
Somerville
Robert Kramer
Roberta
Kenneth
George
East Islip
Betty Jane Winn
Douglas Nachholz
Carlton Rideout
Roy B. Cales
Sugar Loaf
Calewood
Carlton W. Rideout
Percy Lantz
Cales
Bert Randall
Herbert
Betty
Waltham
Winn House
William
James Gagnon
Jerry Nolan
Fath
Cedar Point
Sprague
Manso
M. H. Page
North St
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