Obituaries
Page D, The Bridgton News, August 16, 2012
Cecile B. Richard
Pamela A. Poirier
Arthur D. Stein Jr.
SANFORD — Cecile B. Richard, 88, a longtime resident of June Street in Sanford, passed away on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, at the Goodall Hospital in Sanford. She was born in Sanford on June 4, 1924, the daughter of the late Joseph and Mary (Perreault) Beaudoin. She attended St. Ignatius School and graduated from Sanford High School in 1942. She was a lifelong communicant of Holy Family Parish. Her involvement in the parish ranged from bookkeeper for 12 years, a member of the choir, the first woman lector and one of the first women Eucharistic Ministers. She was a member of the Ladies of St. Anne where she was a past president. In 1998 when her husband Roland Richard became incapacitated, she became his devoted and loving caregiver until his death on Jan. 20, 2006. She was predeceased by her first husband, Alphonse Lapierre, who passed away on April 23, 1975; and her brothers, Albert and Robert Beaudoin. She is survived by a sister, Anita Beattie of Sanford; her children, Elaine Hadiaris of Sanford, Estelle Collette of West Chester, Pa. and James Lapierre of Sanford; stepchildren, Paul Richard of Westbrook, Betty Foster of Brownfield, Nancy Merrow of Biddeford and Brian Richard of Springvale; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; seven stepgrandchildren and eight step-great-grandchildren. Visiting hours were held on Sunday at the Lafrance-Lambert & Black Funeral Home, 29 Winter Street, Sanford. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Monday at St. Therese of Lisieux Parish, Holy Family Church. Burial followed at St. Ignatius Cemetery. Condolences may be expressed at www.blackfuneralhomes.com Those planning an expression of sympathy are asked to consider donations in her memory to: The American Lung Association of Maine, 122 State St., Augusta, ME 04330-5615.
RAYMOND — Pamela A. Poirier, 51, with loving family by her side, passed away on Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born on March 30, 1961, in Portland, the daughter of Leo J. Jr. and Kathleen R. (Jacques) Poirier. She grew up in Westbrook, graduating from Westbrook High School in the Class of 1979. She has worked for the city of Portland, 1st Suburban Title Company, Family Dollar Store and Cumberland Farms. Pam enjoyed volunteering each year at the Sebago Lake Rotary Club Ice Fishing Derby. She also enjoyed reading, cooking, swimming, and especially spending time with her family and friends. Pam adored her daughter, Leeza, and granddaughter, Wynter Rose. She will be forever remembered for her strength and courage, her sense of humor, and her exemplary generous and kind heart. Her home was always welcome to those that did not have one. She is survived by her mother, Kathy Poirier of Westbrook; daughter, Leeza Brown Poirier of Raymond; a granddaughter; sister, Deborah McPhail of Raymond; beloved boyfriend Randy Terry of Raymond; and several cherished cousins and friends. Pam was predeceased by her father, Leo J. Poirier Jr. Visitation will be held on Friday, Aug. 17, 2012, from 4 to 6 p.m., at Blais & Hay Funeral Home, 35 Church Street, Westbrook, with a memorial service immediately following. Online condolences may be signed at www.blaisandhayfuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers, friends wishing to may make donations in Pam’s memory to: The Cumberland County Federal CU f/b/o, Wynter Rose Brown Poirier Educational Fund, 808 Roosevelt Trail, Windham, ME 04062.
Arthur D. Stein Jr., a former owner of the Bridgton Highlands Golf Club, died peacefully at an assisted living facility in Fairhope, Ala., on Aug. 4, 2012. He was 99. Mr. Stein was born on June 14, 1913 in Waterbury, Conn., but from early on, he and his family and his in-laws spent many years at the family camp in Ingall’s Grove on Highland Lake in Bridgton. In 1954, he and his brother-in-law, Dr. Warren D. Platt, bought the golf club. The entire family worked at the club, with “Art” as the pro, his wife, Janet Platt, managing food and beverages, her parents working in the kitchen, and the three children helping out with everything from caddying and raking sand traps to mowing fairways. Mr. Stein and his wife divorced in 1966. Their children attended Bridgton schools. During the winters, Mr. Stein taught history and coached sports at Bridgton Academy. Mr. Stein and Dr. Platt sold the golf club in 1957, but their descendants continue to summer in Ingall’s Grove, at the northeast reach of the lake. Mr. Stein is survived by a longtime companion, Dottie Martin of Fairhope, Ala.; a daughter, Susan Timperley of Foley, Ala. and Bridgton; two sons, David of Loudon, Tenn. and Jeffrey of Washington, D.C.; three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. A private memorial service will be held at the family camp later this summer. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Lakes Environmental Association Fund, 230 Main Street, Bridgton, ME 04009.
Alwyn Waite
David M. Jewett
FALMOUTH — David M. Jewett, 82, of Falmouth, passed peacefully from this life on Aug. 5, 2012, at Huntington Common in Kennebunk. WESTBROOK — Alwyn Waite, 90, of He was born in Clarks Summit, Pa., on Sept. 17, 1929, the son of Ray Westbrook, passed away on Wednesday, Aug. L. and Eva Maud McCartney Jewett. David was a graduate of Syracuse 8, 2012. University and Temple University Medical School. He was born in Beverly, Mass., the son David proudly served our country in the United States Navy. He was of Robert and Florence (Chew) Waite. He a family physician for 43 years in Ipswich, Mass., before his retirement graduated from Beverly High School and in 2000. He was an avid sailing and skiing enthusiast. Northeastern University. David is survived by his wife, Marsha Effner Jewett of Falmouth; Alwyn joined the Navy and served during five children, Eric Jewett of Los Angeles, Calif., Elizabeth Jewett WWII in the Pacific as part of an aircraft carof Salisbury, Mass., Bruce Jewett of Portsmouth, N.H., W. Stephen rier group, where he was trained as one of the Effner of Sweden and Megan Effner of Scarborough; one sister, Phyllis first radar technicians. Alwyn moved to Prides Wingeruth of Redwood, N.Y.; eight grandchildren; and several nieces Corner in 1957, where he began a long career and nephews. at S.D. Warren as an electrical engineer. At David’s request, services will be private. Interment will be at He was a member of the Prides Corner Maine Veterans Cemetery in Augusta with military honors provided by Congregational Church, the Westbrook Senior the Maine Honor Guard. Arrangements are under the direction of Jones, Citizens, the Westbrook Historical Society, Rich & Hutchins Funeral Homes, 199 Woodford Street, Portland. and also served on the Westbrook School Board for many years. Online condolences can be made to the family at www.jonesrichandHe enjoyed hunting, fishing with his Irish water spaniel, sailing and hutchins.com outings with his family and friends. Please make desired donations in honor of David to the Alzheimer’s Alwyn was predeceased by his sister, Marion Abbot. Association, Scarborough. He is survived by his wife Lucille; sons, Peter Waite of Casco and Daniel Waite of Westbrook; his sister Arline Rayner of Chatham, Mass.; seven grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. A funeral service was held on Monday, Aug. 13, at the Prides Corner Congregational Church. Interment with military honors followed at Highland Cemetery in West Poland. Online condolences may be expressed at www.blaisandhayfuneralhome.com
William O. Guptill
WEST BALDWIN — William O. “Bill” Guptill, 83, of Douglas Hill Road, died unexpectedly at his home on Aug. 9, 2012. He was born in West Baldwin on March 31, 1929, the son of Roland and Doris Christie Guptill. He attended local schools and was a graduate of Potter Academy in Sebago. He served in the Unites States Army. He married Bessie M. Murch on Nov. 11, 1949. Bill was always a hard worker. He owned and operated William O. Guptill Excavation Co. in West Baldwin for many years. He had belonged to the West Baldwin Fire Department, the West Baldwin Grange and the Kezar Falls/Cornish Kiwanis Club. He enjoyed hunting and fishing as a young man and later enjoyed traveling with his wife, Bessie. They went on several Maine Line tours including to Nashville, Branson and Niagara Falls. They also enjoyed trips each year to Cabbage Island and Owl’s Head. Above all, he loved spending time with his family and will be sadly missed by all who loved him. Besides his parents, he was predeceased by his brother, Kenneth Guptill; and an infant great-granddaughter. Surviving are his beloved wife, Bessie Guptill; three sons, Ronald Guptill, Joel Guptill Sr. and Steven Guptill, all of Baldwin; a brother, Delbert Guptill of Florida; a sister, Glenna Peare of Baldwin; six grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Visiting hours and funeral service were held on Monday, Aug. 13, at the Watson, Neal & York Funeral Home, 71 Maple Street, Cornish. Pastor Robert Irish officiated. Burial followed at the New West Baldwin Cemetery.
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tipped her seat back and fell fast asleep; and in the peace of the morning, with the wet pavement hissing gently beneath us and my favorite worship band praising softly from the CD player, I finally found the time to scratch at a patch of poison ivy that I’d had for a week. Then, I noticed that the check BUG, Page D
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Martin Burke NAPLES — Martin Burke, age 89, passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012 at the Maine Veterans’ Home in Scarborough, where he had resided for the past six months. Thank you to that facility, the Barron Center in Portland, and “Aging Excellence” for their compassionate care. They are special people. Martin was born on March 22, 1923 in Holyrood, Newfoundland, the oldest child of Vincent and Louise (Wall) Burke. He grew up in St. Mary’s. Martin came to this country in 1944, at the age of 21, when the U.S. Government was recruiting young men to work the farms here to replace our young men who were away fighting in World War II. (At that time Newfoundland was a country, not a province of Canada.) Martin had to return to Newfoundland at the end of his four-year visa, but he had met his wife-to-be here and wanted to come back to the U.S.A. to marry her. Thank you to Rudy Kasserman of Rudy’s Meat Market in Portland for sponsoring his return. Martin returned to Falmouth in 1948 and was drafted into the U.S. Army in Jan. of 1949. He served one year active duty and then three more years in the National Guard. Martin and his first wife, Irene (Hansen), married in 1949 and lived in Falmouth and had four children: Eric, Janine, Wayne and Kelvin. They were divorced in 1966. In 1983 Martin married Patricia (Ledger) Maxim and they built their home on Long Lake in Naples (Maine). Although Martin suffered the effects of Alzheimer’s disease for nine years, he remembered almost to the end and was very proud of the fact that he had built their beautiful home on the land that he carefully tended for nearly 50 years. After farming in Falmouth, Martin worked on the Portland waterfront driving pilings for the piers. He then became a self-employed carpenter, shingling roofs and cedar shingle side walls for the Cope Brothers and then C. Sam DiBiase, among others, for many years. He retired in 1983 to build his and Patricia’s new home in Naples on Burke Road. Martin was predeceased by his parents and two sisters in Newfoundland. He still has a half-sister and many nieces and nephews living there. He was also predeceased by his oldest grandson, Todd Burke, in 1996; and most recently by his daughter Janine on July 5, 2012. Martin is survived by his former wife, Irene Burke, of Bridgton and their three sons: Eric of Syracuse, N.Y., Wayne of Naples, and Kelvin (TUX) of Bridgton; and Kelvin’s three children: Keegan, Adora, and Kamden. He is also survived by his wife, Patricia Maxim, and her three daughters: Lynn Chick of Westbrook and her two sons Jason and Ethan; Laurie Bisson of Woolwich and her four children Lucien, Jaime Lynn, Benjamin and Juliette; and Lou Ann White of Scarborough and her three children: Brittany, Brandon and Brianna. At Martin’s request there will be no funeral. His body will be cremated and his ashes scattered. In memory of Martin, there is a bench with his name on it near the “Songo River Queen II” boat dock, bought to benefit the Naples Causeway Beautification project, with the inscription: In loving memory of Martin Burke — son of Newfoundland who loved Naples, Maine & Long Lake.
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(Continued from Page D) dwell on such things — like the fellow who doesn’t shingle his barn when the weather is fair because there is no need of it and can’t do it when it is raining because it is too late. News Item: Some of the trout, which were put into Highland Lake a year or so ago, worked down through the screen and showed up below the dam above the Tannery Bridge. Kids had great fun with them until the brook was “posted” making it illegal to fish for any kind of fish above the bridge. Now, they stand on the banks, throw rocks into the stream and drive the fish down below the bridge where some of the other fellows are waiting with hook and line. Any law against that? Editorial: While the CCC Camp boys are not allowed to engage in regular road building for the reason that a certain amount of the five billion work relief has been earmarked for the roads, there is the possibility that if the proper strings are pulled they may be allowed to build an automobile road up the old stage road in Pleasant Mountain, where they are laying out a foot trail to the Half Way House. It is just a mile and 1/8 to the Half Way House and exactly the same distance to the summit. We don’t know
just what strings to pull, but this would open up a great country, which would be popular with the tourists and home people alike. It’s worth looking into any rate. Many of us who haven’t been on the summit of the mountain since our childhood days would be tempted to make the climb again if we could be landed at the Half Way House by automobile. New Item Excerpt: The Bridgton Chamber of Commerce came into the strike picture definitely this week as mediator in the local labor troubles, which resulted in the union men walking out of the Pondicherry Mill some days ago and tying up the mill. At regular meeting of the Chamber Tuesday evening, a fact finding committee was appointed, made up of Roy Nafis, Harold G. Braithwaite and Harold Morrison, to confer with the local mill officials for the purpose of clearing up some of the disputed points in the controversy. New Item Excerpt: About two months ago when all of Naples was agog with rumors that a federal project of some sort was being planned for the Songo Lock district, we pried into the matter and found that there really was something in these stories. Construction of a 1935, Page D