Funeral services for Merton R Dunn in Gardiner
Funeral services for Merton R Dunn who died July 18 at 125 Spring Street Gardiner were held Wednesday at the Ames bury White funeral home. He was born in Augusta son of John and Addie Dunn lived in Gardiner 21 years and worked 23 years for Hazzard Shoe Co. He was an Episcopalian and a Hermon Lodge member. Survived by wife Eva Whitmore Dunn and three children Lawrence Lorraine and Richard Dunn all of Gardiner and several family members in Maine and New Jersey plus many visiting relatives and friends.
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Merton R. Dunn
Spring Street
Gardiner
Amesbury-White
Washington Avenue
Mr. Dunn
Augusta
John and
Addie (Stinson) Dunn
Hazzard Shoe Co
Hermon Lodge
Eva (Whit
John Dunn
Richmod
Ralph Hodges
Ralph
Addison
East Orange
N. J
Mary P. Reed
Gardner Street
Gilbert Maxwell
North Adams
Mass
Lawrence Bond
Delina Gilbert
Worcester
Mildred Morris
John Schieber
Malden
Mary B. Price
Lytle Lint
Edward Bullock
South Portland
Mae Reed
North Pleasant Street
C. Leavens Eldridge
Connecticut
Clarence W. Beckwith
Dorothy
Old Mystic
Conn
Eldridge
Arthur James
Peabody
James
Charles H. James
Brunswick Road
Emelie Maschino
Gardiner General Hospital
Mabel Cate
Richmond
Dresden
Roger Pierce
Dorchester
Carl Curtis
Lawrence Thompson
L. M. Thompson
Dover-Foxcroft
George H. Toothaker
Toothaker
Elizabeth Haynes
Boynton Street
Thomas Point
Stanley Marr
Waterville
Frank Prebley
Kimball Street
Everett F. Pollard
Exporto
Calif
Pollard
George Leavitt
Raymond Libby
Washington County
John Crane
Maynard Brown
Ralph George
Somerville
Carlos Dunlap
Everett Pollard
Roland Grant
Boothbay Harbor
John Clark
Lewiston
William Dingley
Helen Graves
Bowdoinham
George Yeaton
McPriest
Boston
Swan Island
Margaret Thompson
Hallowell
Town
Winnifred Hackett
Edith Hacket
H. A. Tarr
Helen Grant
Tarr
A. S. Buzzell
North Litchned
James Edgecomb
Dora Richardson
Cambridge
Raymond Sedgley
Winfield Brown
Mars Hill
A. W. Skillins
Bangor
E. O. Tarr
Eva Libby
Willard Lane
Popham Beach
Raymond Northey
Leon Williams
Waltham
Victor Pinkham
Cleon
Mary
Barbara
Jeanette
Harold Pinkham
Marlene
Leo F. Dunn
Cunningham Camp
Orin White
White Cottage
Norman Howard
Gilbert
Glenda
Bath
Betty Howard
Camp Wyconda
Mt Vernon
Walter Reid
Mason Gray
Maine
Webster Harley
Milford
N. H
Seguinland
John Hinds
Fred Reid
Seguin
Seguinland Road
Josh Durant
Jo Martin
Milton
Charles Burgess
R. A. Cunningham
David Ellen
Katharine Cunningham
Russell Pinkham
Kittery
Pejepscot
Melvin Comeau
Orville Rowe
J. Wentworth
Rebecca
Thomas Wentworth
Mary Norton
Hope
Elbridge Southard
Theodore Thibodeau
E. M. Horton
Catherine
Charles, Jr
Burgess
Mary Morton
Marie Peters
Clarence MacMahan
Charles Jones
Earl Hinckley
Mr Hinckley
Ambrose Thibodeau
Ivan Pinkham
Charles Lewis
Harold Rowe
Carl and
Harold, Jr
Howard Bacon
Francis Bacon
Sudbury
Joseph G. Stevens
Allan Huntington
South Danville
Ralph Worrell
Philadelphia
Worrell
Bath Memorial Hospital
Otis Baker
J. G. Stevens
Belle Stevens
Paul Thompson
Martha
Jean
Walter E. Reid
William Gage
Helen Gage
New York
Sedgemere Road
Battling Violette to fight Bernard for featherweight title
Battling Violette of Lewiston meets George Bernard of Portland in a featherweight state title bout at Arcade Arena Friday night with 8 30 start Promoter Nick Mihalos card also featuring a semi final where Mark Harrington of Phippsburg challenges Lou Cooper of Bath Cooper holds Harrington to four rounds in their last meeting but Harrington believes he has improved since stationing with Battery H at Fort Williams Local preliminaries pair Jackie Davis of Bath with Battling Nelson of Lewiston CCC Percy King vs Elmer Ferguson of Portland Ferguson holding a slight edge Billy Stratakos of Bath faces Jimmy Lynch of Portland.
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Violette
Lewiston
George Bernard
Portland
Arcade
Nick Mihalos
Mark Harrington
Phippsburg
Lou Cooper
Bath
Cooper
Harrington
Battery H
Fort Williams
Jackie Davis
Battling Nelson
Lewiston CCC
Percy King
Elmer Ferguson
Exposition Building
Ferguson
Billy Stratakos
Jimmy Lynch
Garden club talk and fire devastates Solon farm home
Mrs. Frederick N. Sanborn presented a book on wild flowers at the garden club meeting while Mrs. Hodgdon reported on the Maine Federation conference at Lakewood. In Solon, a fire likely started in the kitchen chimney destroyed the Lester Chase farm home. two daughters 15 and 16 and Oliver French were warned to safety as the house and stable burned, the barn across the road saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick N. Sanborn
Frank A. Hodgdon
Lakewood
Maine Federation of Garden Clubs
Carl Y. Kennedy
Sumner Sewall
Lester Chase
Solon
Fire department field day yields multiple winners in Gardiner
Yarmouth Freeport and Richmond led the first annual Gardiner Fire Department field day on Saturday. Richmond won the second cup after a dramatic water battle defeating Wilton, while Yarmouth topped the ladder contest and Freeport finished second. in the wet hose event Freeport placed first, Yarmouth second, and Richmond third in both tests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yarmouth
Freeport
Richmond
Gardiner Fire Department
Gardiner
Wilton
Free- Port
Georgetown Social Notes Show Local Summer Visitors
Mrs Sadie Drake of Attleboro Massachusetts visits Indian Point with daughter Mrs William Collins. Numerous residents host relatives and friends from New Haven Winchester Needham Bath Portland and Brooklyn while guests enjoy cottages at Indian Point Kennebec Point and Sagadahoc Bay plus trips to Rangeley Lakes and Burlington Vermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sadie Drake
Attleboro
Mass
William Collins
Indian Point
George Nagle
New Haven
Edward J. Stewart
Kennebec Point
Harry L. Horne
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Dorothy Hagan
North Edgecomb
Harry Carlisle
Joseph Lane
Thomas F. Russell
Ann
David
Chicago
Ill
Mary Saunders
Montreal
Faulkner
Winchendon
Russell
Kansas City
Maine
George Webber
Vassalboro
Elvira Trafton
Waldo Brown
Wellesley Hills
Charles Read
James Toomey
James Toomey, Jr
New Britain
Georgetown
Abbie Emmons
Lewiston
Emmons
George Emmons
Brooklyn
N. Y
Charles Stone
Andover
Henry Albers
Elizabeth Stone
Ernest Curtis
Scott
Wendell Todd
Salem
Rangeley Lakes
Edward Wren
Portland
Clarence Kneeland
Rowley
Roy Moore
Elizabeth Thompson
Gordon Wright
Woolwich
Bancroft House
Robert Waller
Canada
Charles Butts
Woburn
Joan Harrison
Bath
Miss Fergerson
Toward M. Trafton
James McFadden
New York
Clarence B. Hill
Boston
Prescott Steadman
California
Steadman
Carrie Oliver
Rosa Smith
Lexington
Oliver Hooper
Sagadahoc Bay
Meta Bearse
Everett Stevens
Robinhood
Bath Memorial Hospital
Virginia Lauriet
West Medford
Amy Lauriet
Arthur B. Newman
Memphis
Tenn
Harold G. Newman
St. Louis
Roy Newman
Dorothy W. Oliver
Joseph F. Higgins
Brunswick Wasters
Akron man named head of new chemical lab at Goodyear plant
Eugene Gilman of Akron has been named head of a new chemical laboratory at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co Akron plant. A Dartmouth graduate from N H Fay and MIT, he joined Goodyear after graduation and has spent eight years in Akron. He is visiting his parents in Dexter with wife and two young sons Ward and Philip.
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Eugene Gilman
Akron
Ohio
Addison W. Gilman
Maplestreet
Dexter
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Akron, Oho
Gilman
N. H. Fay Highster
Mssachusetts Institute of Technology
Goony
Arrowsic Lad Drowns While Bathing At Sewall's Pond
A 15 year old Arrowsic boy Charles B Snipe drowned Thursday afternoon at Sewall's Pond after stepping from a ledge beyond his depth. Two Bath youths Walter Rideout and Guy Lewis tried to rescue him while fire department and Central Maine Power Co personnel used prone pressure for over three hours. Snipe, son of Mrs Bessie Palmer and the late Edward B Snipe, had worked at Horatio L Baker potato farm and leaves two sisters Madeline Snipe and Mrs Bernard Koehling.
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Sewall’s Pond
Arrowsie
Charles B. Snipe
Edward B. Snipe
Bath
Walter Rideout
Guy Lewis
Rideout
Arrowsic
Snipe
Lewis
Mayland L. Jewett
Augusta
Maine
Scott Morse
Fire Department
Fred Perry
Laurence Lowell
Melvin D. Ferris
Charles S. Stackpole
Central Maine Power Co
Bessie Palmer
Madeline B. Snipe
Bernard Koehling
Portland
William F Tate Dies. Topsham Leader and Former Legislator
William Foster Tate 74 prominent Saga dahoc county citizen and former Topsham selectman died suddenly Sunday night in Brunswick hospital after a brief illness. Democratic leader who served in the Maine House 1914 18, he was a 32 degree Mason and active in Masons Knights of Pythias and Topsham Grange. He leaves two sisters and a niece, with funeral Wednesday at his Bradley Pond road home followed by a Masonic committal at River View Cemetery.
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William Foster Tate
Sagadahoc County
Topsham
Brunswick
Bath
Tate
Maine
House of Representatives
Mr. Tate
Willian R
Mary Bradley Tate
United Lodge of Masons
The
Knights of Pythias
Topsham Grange
Sumner Sewall
Nellie Tate
Fred Hathorne
Veazie
Helen L. Hathorne
Frank H. Todd
Edward S. Strout
Bradley Pond Road
Harry W. Camberlin
United Baptist Church
Mason Marshall
Linwood T. Skelton
Bowdoin
Walter Cox
Pearl Stevens
Charles
Harry Rackley
River View Cemetery
Comrade Memorial: Charles Baldwin Snipe Remembered
A tribute poem by Walter Rideout and Guy Lewis Jr honors Charles Baldwin Snipe of Arrowsic, drowned at Sewall Pond last week. The verse recalls their friendship, Charlie's cheery voice, and his Heavenward rest amid shared memories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Baldwin Snipe
Arrowsic
Sewall
Walter Rideout
Guy Lewis, Jr
Mr Lewis
Five Islands Cottage Guests Share Summer visiting notes
A crowded ledger of summer visitors to Five Islands reads like a local almanac. Families from Woolwich Bath Cambridge and Boston converge on cottages Seguinland and the Hall cottage as summer residents and day guests arrive and depart, with electricity wiring progress noted at several cottages.
Obituary: Orrin P. Genthner Dies at 50 in Bath
Orrin P. Genthner 50 of 13 Blass and Jane Bath died Sunday evening at Bath Memorial Hospital after two weeks illness. Born in Bremen he lived in Bath most of his life. Ship fitter at Bath Iron Works and formerly Texas Steamship Co. Also worked at Woolwich ferry slip. Survived by wife Laura Footer four daughters five children three sons and three brothers Sam Fred Ralph.
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Orrin P. Genthner
Jane
Bath Memorial Hospital
Mr. Genthner
Bremen
Charles
Mary Genthner
Bath
Bath Iron Works, Corp
Texas Steamship Company
Woolwich Ferry
Haverhill
Mass
Ralph Genthner
New York
William E. McIntire dies after long illness at 79
William Eugene McIntire, 79, prominent Small Point carpenter, died Sunday after a lengthy illness with heart complications. Born in Phippsburg to Charles and Almira Blaisdell McIntire, he built cottages for Mrs. George S. Dearborn and the Alliquippa restoration, earning the nickname Uncle Billy. He is survived by his wife and many nephews and nieces. The funeral was held Tuesday at the Small Point church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Eugene McIntire
Small Point Colony
Mr. McIntire
Phippsburg
Charles and
Almira Blaisdell McIntire
George S. Dearborn
New York
George W Rich 88 Cabinet maker died in Woolwich
George W Rich aged 88 a longtime Bath cabinet maker died Saturday at his Woolwich home where he had farmed for 15 years He was born in West Bath son of Reuben and Seborah Trufant Rich He leaves son Clarence Rich and granddaughter Mrs Ossian Dodge both of Woolwich Funeral was Monday at 2 at Arthur F Mayo funeral residence Bath Rev Henry EF Weston officiated Burial followed in Oak Grove cemetery Bearers were Wilson Bailey Ossian Dodge John Klippel Clarence Rich
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Rich
Bath
Woolwich
Mr. Rich
West Bath
Reuben and
Seborah Trufant Rich
Clarence Rich
Ossian Dodge
Arthur F. Mayo
High Street
Henry EF. Weston
Oak Grove Cemetery
Wilson Bailey
John Klippel
Death of Charles H Wakefield Former Bath Resident
Charles H Wakefield died early Sunday in West Somerville Massachusetts. He was born in Bath, son of the late James E and Ann R Wakefield. He was the last of his family and his mother who lived with him died recently, her body brought to Bath for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Somerville
Mass
Charles H. Wakefield
Bath
James E
Ann R. Wakefield
Obituary: Wilbur E. Davis Dies at 66 in Sebasco
Wilbur E. Davis aged 66 longtime fisherman died Wednesday at his Sebasco home after a long illness. He was born in Phippsburg to Augustus and Nancy W. Davis and later lived on Chebeague Island before returning to Phippsburg and settling in Sebasco for 35 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur E. Davis
Sebasco
Phippsburg
Augustus
Nancy W. Davis
Chebeague Island
Mrs Helen Harris Wells Dies in New York City at 72
Mrs Helen Harris Wells, 72, formerly of Bath, died July 11 in New York City. She was twice married and is survived by one son, George Morris Rush, from her first marriage to Dr Rush of Savannah, Georgia, and one cousin, Mrs Emily R White of Alhambra, California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Harris Wells
Bath
New York City
Charles B. Snipe Funeral in Arrow s Cemetery
The funeral for 15 year old Charles Baldwin Snipe son of Bessie P and the late Edward P Snipe who drowned in Sewall s pond was Sunday at 3 30 PM at the Arrowsie home Rev Lloyd A Doty officiated Bearers were Frank Carlton Merton Seth and Walter Snipe Burial followed in the family lot in Arrow sic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Baldwin Snipe
Bessie P
Edward P. Snipe
Sewall’s Pond
Arrowsie
Lloyd A. Doty
Frank Carlton
Merton
Seth
Walter Snipe
Arrowsic
Funeral for Sewall A Small in Searsport
The funeral of Sewall Augustus Small was held Thursday at two at Arthur F. Mayo funeral residence. Rev. Charles A. Sims officiated. Bearers were Alman L. Goss Walter R. Morse Harry L. Knight and Samuel M. Jordan. Interment followed at Oak Grove. A daughter Joan was born July 15 to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clark. Joan is the great great granddaughter of Alfred Card, 88, Searsport’s oldest male resident, making her the youngest of a five generation line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewall Augustus Small
Arthur F. Mayo
Charles A. Sims
Almon L. Goss
Walter R. Morse
Harry L. Knight
Samuel M. Jordan
Oak Grove
Joan
Robert Clark
Clark
Marian Curtis
Herman Curtis
Alfred Card
Searsport
Webster K. Staples
Mr. Card
Two women dive in showcase stunts at Turner Center bridge site
Mrs Norman Blethen of Arlington Mass and Mrs Robert Rabbitt of Toledo Ohio dared underwater exploration during a bridge reconstruction project at Turner Center. They were supervised by Blethen’s husband and by Rabbitt, who owns the diving gear. The piece also notes Delta Delta Delta sorority events with Boston connections and a Golden Anniversary Convention planned in Boston. There are 87 Tri Delta chapters and about 27000 members across the U S and Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turner Center
Norman Blethen
Arington
Mass
Robert Rabbitt
Toledo
Ohio
Simpson Bros. Corp
Turner Center Bridge
Bob Rabbitt
Delta Delta Delta
Boston University
Maine
Richard E. Cobb
Pleasant Pond
Helen Hart Gerry
Boston
Marjorie Bunker
Alpha Alliance
Gerry
Cobb
Tri-Delta
United States
Canada
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