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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1949
Page
5
At a Thursday meeting in the high school gym the Budget committee the Board of Selectmen and the Town Manager approved three articles. One article raised funds for the Fire Department another borrowed 5000 for two years. A YAYF picnic at Peacock's Tavern Beach drew 28 attendees with a beach feast and swimming.
Madeline Cotton of Clark Street Brooklyn announces the engagement of her daughter Jeanne Cotton to John Fairfield Thompson Jr., son of Dr. Thompson and the late Mrs. Thompson of New Canaan and Pierrepoint Street Brooklyn. The wedding is planned for autumn. Thompson is a Colgate graduate, Delta Upsilon member, served with anti aircraft artillery in the Pacific, and works with American Platinum Works in Newark.
Fragmentary text mentions a patient weight rising to five pounds and one and a half ounces before leaving the hospital, with partial attribution to Donald Mosher of Portland and unclear local context.
A long list of Bath area residents and guests enjoy summer residences and visits from Ipswich and Windsor visitors. People travel from Manhattan Kansas Princeton and Massachusetts to Kennebec Point and MacMahan while social events include birthdays at Robinhood camps and kennel club outings. A salt water bucket brigade on July 4 and various hotel and cottage visits mark the seaside week.
West Bath sees Leon White offer seaplane flights over the area. Georgetown PTA sponsors weekly movie showings at Howard Hall for all ages. A two masted schooner Alice S Wentworth visited harbor before heading to Boothbay. Various residents and visitors are noted over the past week.
Rosa Mary Cooper 78 died Monday afternoon at Bath Memorial Hospital after three months as a patient. Born in Cornwall England January 18 1871 she was the daughter of Daniel and Lavinia Bullock and moved with her family to Quincy Mass at age 13. She married Henry D. Cooper in 1892 and lived in Augusta before moving to Bath 19 years ago to live with her son Councilman Lancelot H. Cooper. She was active in the R B Capen Rebekah lodge Pythian Sisters Myrtle lodge U O S O L and Corliss Street Baptist Church. Surviving are two sons Councilman Cooper of Bath and Earl Cooper of Woolwich, four grandchildren including Lancelot B. Cooper and Gardiner area coaches, 10 great grandchildren, and two brothers Alfred and former Mayor Fred Bullock. Funeral services will be Thursday at two in Augusta from Plummer Funeral Home.
Mrs Clara A Flanders wife of Guy Flanders 77 of Richmond died Tuesday at her son's Bath home after a brief illness. She was born in Bath daughter of Francis and Clara Adams and educated at Bath High School Boston University and Paris. She taught in Lan caster N H Brockton and Chautauqua N Y. Survived by husband two sons Roger L Flanders Stillwater Okla and Joseph C Flanders three grandsons Edward Robert and Howard Flanders all of Stillwater and sisters Margaret Sarah and Pauline Adams Bath. Funeral Thursday 10 from Mayo funeral home with Rev Joseph O Purdue. burial Friday Summer Street Cemetery Lancaster N H.
Flora C Smith of Chelsea Massachusetts 67 dies Tuesday morning at Memorial hospital. Born June 5 1882 she was daughter of George and Ella Burgess Willcox. Survived by husband John Smith one son William Mullin four daughters and many grandchildren. Funeral Friday at two from 18 Russell Street with Rev Curtis L Stanley Nazarene Church officiating. Buried Oak Grove family lot.
Mr and Mrs Allister Finlay with daughters Anne and Aileen have returned to their Absecon New Jersey home after visiting Mr and Mrs Percy R Low at their Birch Point cottage. The Finlaysons recently arrived from Dumbarton Scotland.
Col George A Baker 80 of Bath died Thursday night at Togus Veterans facility after long illness. A former Maine state prison warden and Sagadahoc legislator 1925 27, he served as WWI artillery commander of Portland Harbor forts and led Maine Coast Artillery. Born Bath July 12 1869 he held varied local posts and military ranks. survived by two daughters Laura Doten Louise Mitchell nine grandchildren.
Joseph F King 72 of North Bath died Friday at Bath Memorial hospital. Born in St John New Brunswick he worked many years with the Bath Highway Department. Survived by three sons two brothers three sisters five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral Monday at 2 p m at Arthur F Mayo Son funeral residence with Rev Arvid Anderson officiating burial in the local area.
Col. George A. Baker funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at two at Arthur F. Mayo & Son Funeral Residence with Rev. Joseph O. Purdue officiating. Bearers were Smith-Tobey Post American Legion veterans, including Joan Williams Kenneth Weeks George Crocker Roy Getchell Gardiner Rogers and Galen Ward. Burial followed in Oak Grove family lot.
The funeral was held Monday at 10 30 from Arthur F Mayo and Son Funeral Residence with Rev Arvid Anderson officiating. The body was taken to Gloucester Massachusetts for a second service Tuesday. Burial is in Beach Brook Cemetery, Gloucester.
Stanley Lane 32 of North Bath drowned Friday night while swimming with his wife and two children at Center pond in Phippsburg. Neighbors helped in the search and resuscitation attempts with a Bath Iron Works pullmotor unit and oxygen. the medical examiner ruled drowning. Lane had lived in Bath since 1940, formerly a welder at Bath Iron Works, and is survived by his wife Cora Sutphen Lane and several nephews and nieces. Funeral services were held in Westboro, Massachusetts.
Funeral services were held Tuesday for Thomas A. Costello of Weymouth Mass at Sacred Heart church Weymouth Landing after a brief illness. A Fore River shipyard foreman at retirement, he trained at Bath Iron Works and worked in Atlantic Coast yards. Survived by his wife Nellie G Cleary Costello two daughters Eleanor and Mrs Leo McMorrow two brothers Patrick and James and two sisters Katherine Lewis and Margaret McNeil.
Notice states Miss Edith Howard has died and a ward or residence has been received in connection with the death, with details unspecified in the fragment.
Mrs Lillian H Hoffess Neuburger widow of Henry Neuburger died in Richmond after raising friends. Born in Warren she was daughter of Oscar E Hoffess and Elizabeth Studley Hoffess. Survived by brother Franklin Hoffess Cambridge Mass and several nieces nephews and cousins. Funeral 2 p.m. Wednesday at Arthur F Mayo & Son Funeral Residence with Rev Charles R Sims. Burial in Oak Grove family lot.
Stanley H Lane 32 of upper High street drowned Friday night while swimming at Center Poe Phippsburg. Born May 5 1917 to Cruee and Jennie Middleton Lane, he moved to Bath in 1940 and worked as a welder. Survived by widow Cora Sulphen, a son Philip H and a daughter Beverly, four brothers and a sister.
Jerry N. Sanford 80 of 41 Crescent Street Bath died at Memorial Hospital last Wednesday. Born in Nova Scotia he moved to Bath early and worked as a carpenter at Iron Works for most of his life retiring about five years ago. Survived by widow Margaret E and daughter Katherine M Horn of Brooklyn NY plus several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services for Leland S Plum mer were held Thursday afternoon at two from his home 27 Dummer street Reverend M A Gordon officiated Bearers were William Gibb Samuel Jordan Harry White Hobart James McKay and Elbridge Cornish Burial was in the family lot at Oak Grove
Funeral services for Jerry N. Sanford were held Saturday at 10 AM at Arthur F. Mayo & Son Funeral Home with Rev. David L. Wilson officiating. Bearers were Harry Bloxsom Edward McAuliffe Frank Galloupe and James C. Coughran. Interment in Oak Grove cemetery.
Funeral services held Monday at 2 p.m. at Arthur F. Mayo & Son Funeral Residence with Rev. Ar vid Anderson officiating. Bearers listed: Frederick L. King, Robert W. King, Truman J. King, and Lester F. Munsey, Jr.
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