The UMF Community remembers these alumni and friends who have passed since January 1, 2018. Obituaries are listed in chronological order by class year. If you know of the passing of other alumni and friends, please share the obituaries with UMF’s Ferro Alumni Center at umfalumni@maine.edu.
Alumni
Ellen Megquier Tufts ’31 in Portsmouth, N.H. on March 11, 2020
Arthur Webb ’35 in Bangor on February 13, 2019
Florence Emond Freeman ’38 in Scarborough on July 13, 2019
Dora Higgins Akeley ’39 in Brunswick on March 8, 2019
Thelma Berry Dunphy ’39 in Embden on December 31, 2019
Ruth Brown Phillips ’39 in Rockland on February 27, 2019
Catherine A. Greer ’40 in Gorham on April 29, 2020
Avis Umphrey Johnson ’40 in South Portland on January 20, 2021
Madelyn Dunton Linscott ’40 in Brunswick on May 25, 2020
Ruth Berry MacLean ’40 in Colebrook, N.H., on July 15, 2018
Harriet Hodges Robbins ’41 in Morrisville, Vt., on August 8, 2018
Ida Cushman Scherf ’41 in Port Charlotte, Fla. on September 15, 2018
Miriam Buck Chaffee ’42 in St. Clair, Mich., on June 2, 2018
Virginia Curtis Cole ’42 in South Paris on March 6, 2018
Dorothy Clark Choppy ’43 in Eugene, Ore. on August 11, 2019
Mary Merry Oatway ’43 in Northfield, Vt., on November 17, 2018
Lorene Judkins Perkins ’43 in Corinna on June 10, 2020
Shirley Berry Alden ’44 in Gorham on August 17, 2019
Carrie Fox ’44 in Sebring, Fla., on April 30, 2019
Henrietta Wright Wheeler-Manley ’44 in Contoocook, N.H., on October 8, 2018
Barbara Snowman Chase White ’44 in Cape Elizabeth on February 26, 2019
Elene Tibbetts Holmes ’45 in Augusta on May 23, 2019
Caroline Hilton Sturtevant ’45 in Belgrade on December 30, 2018
Georgette Britt Maloney Mancuso ’46 in East Longmeadow, Mass., on December 10, 2018
Una Hutchins Richardson ’46 in Berlin, Vt. on June 5, 2020
Patricia Leland Mereen ’47 in Norwich, Conn., on March 25, 2018
Priscilla Roberts Chapman ’49 in Holden on December 8, 2018
Marjorie Durost Gammon ’49 in Peru on April 24, 2018
Ruth Gibbs Goforth ’49 in Scarborough on March 14, 2018
Muriel Webber Henderson ’49 in Fayette on December 30, 2020
Grace Downey Poulin ’49 in Ellsworth on January 16, 2018
Hilda Carver Swan ’49 in Brewer on March 15, 2018
Claire Doughty Vining ’49 in Cumberland on April 30, 2019
Muriel Mitchell Goodspeed ’50 in Portland on April 4, 2020
Pauline Blanchard Weeks ’50 in Rumford on November 4, 2018
Frances Hall Ziedelis ’50 in Canton, Mass., on September 20, 2018
Dorothy Small Collins ’51 in Rockland on June 19, 2018
Dorothy Judkins Gray ’51 in Augusta on January 14, 2020
Maxine Pelletier Martin ’51 in Falmouth on January 6, 2020
Richard Bartlett ’52 in Brunswick on January 24, 2018
Eleanor Compton Berry ’52 in Portland on June 8, 2021
Evangeline Perona ’52 in Fairport Harbor, Ohio on December 7, 2020
Anne Poland ’52 in Southington, Conn. on June 14, 2020
Marilyn Todd ’52 in Scarborough on August 13, 2020
Nancy Chenevert Varney ’52 in Yarmouth on September 19, 2019
Patricia E. Wilson ’52 in Millinockett on December 22, 2018
Carlton Braley ’53 in Thorndike on January 2, 2020
Nathaniel Cousens ’53 in South Thomaston on December 23, 2018
Harriet Cross Dolan ’53 in Skowhegan on March 22, 2020
Janet Gould Ingraham ’53 in Danbury, Conn. on December 8, 2020
Marguerite Tracy Johnson ’53 in Norway on October 10, 2019
Thomas Kannally ’53 in New Portland on April 7, 2018
Bernadette Toner Neal ’53 in Vernon, Conn. on January 29, 2019
Joanne Burns Sorenson ’53 in Scarborough on August 24, 2021
Kay Fernald Tozier ’53 in Raymond, N.H. on June 4, 2019
Ruth Keirstead Wyman ’53 in Auburn on March 10, 2019
Douglas Doyon ’54 in Dexter on September 13, 2018
Evelyn Murphy Ferrari ’54 in Farmington on January 22, 2018
Mary Lou Rosmond Fraser ’54 in Gorham on February 2, 2021
Barbara Gray Morris ’54 in Santa Cruz, Calif. on March 23, 2020
Philip Mountain ’54 in Niantic, Conn., on January 22, 2019
Joan Huston Swett ’54 in Iowa City, Iowa on May 1, 2021
Blaine Atwood ’55 in Hampden on April 18, 2018
June Chenevert Berry ’55 in Cape Elizabeth on June 5, 2019
T. Margaret Brown ’55 in Gorham on May 27, 2018
Norma Bridges Butera ’55 in Hampden on October 24, 2018
Patricia Dacey Folsom ’55 in Hallowell on June 23, 2019
Agnes Woodward Hayford ’55 in Winthrop on June 7, 2020
Elinor Bickford Hjulstrom ’55 in Woodland on July 18, 2020
Stanley Keirstead ’55 in Farmington on May 11, 2020
Dorothy Merrill LeClair ’55 in Lewiston on February 10, 2020
Nancy Nelson Mitchell ’55 in Scarborough on August 9, 2020
Evelyn Bradeen Page ’55 in Dade City, Fla., on March 4, 2019
Mary Ann Meader Tartre ’55 in Kennebunk on April 30, 2019
Louise Watson Williamson ’55 in Jefferson on January 13, 2021
Marguerite Hamilton Foster ’56 in Madison, Conn. on September 15, 2020
Harriet Sawtelle Hosea ’56 in Waterville on October 16, 2019
William Judkins, Sr. ’56 in Portland on November 23, 2020
Frank Manchester ’56 in Diamondhead, Miss. on November 19, 2019
Madaline Merriam Aspinall Rodger ’56 in Topsham on May 7, 2019
Lois Currie Sprague ’56 in Zephyrhills, Fla. on November 8, 2020
Mary Lydia Tobey ’56 in Northport on January 16, 2017
Parker Clements ’57 in Searsport on August 11, 2019
Clayton Larabee ’57 in Turners Falls, Mass. on February 9, 2019
Sally Dingley Ranger ’57 in Bristol on July 19, 2020
Barbara LeCleire Wigley ’57 in Scarborough on October 23, 2019
Mary Louise Burns ’58 in Norway on December 7, 2018
Martha Colbath Donahue ’58 in Lewiston on February 2, 2021
Rita Gagnon Lee Fuller ’58 in Voorhees, N.J., on January 15, 2018
Elizabeth Bryer Stewart ’58 in Scarborough on March 10, 2020
Frank Young ’58 in Norway on January 1, 2021
Rev. David Ellis ’59 in Farmington on January 20, 2019
Georgette Hamel ’59 in Marianna, Fla. on December 12, 2020
Ralph Bushey ’60 in Waterville on November 19, 2018
Clifton “Bud” Gage ’60 in Lakeland, Fla. on December 24, 2018
Margaret Ann Leclair Hanson ’60 in Port St. Lucie, Fla. on September 6, 2019
Reta Kinney Herrick ’60 in Lewiston on January 6, 2018
James McLaughlin ’60 in Brewer on March 1, 2021
William York ’60 in Manchester, N.H. on November 8, 2020
Bradford Buker ’61 in Winslow on May 22, 2021
Charles Richard Dyke ’61, ’72 in Zephyrhills, Fla., on October 8, 2018
Peter Jannace ’61 in Brockton, Mass., on May 29, 2018
Robert E. LeBlanc ’61 in Jay on May 6, 2020
Mary Watson Lemieux ’61 in Topsham on January 3, 2019
Rev. Robert H. Sargent ’61 in Burlington, Vt. on May 14, 2020
John Swanson ’61 in Raymond on February 9, 2020
Pamelia Willard Gage ’62 in Lakeland, Fla. on August 7, 2021
Richard Walker ’62 in Wareham, Mass. on January 28, 2018
Barbara Smythe Whitten ’62 in Norwich, Conn. on January 24, 2021
Sterling Hinkley ’63 in Turner on June 12, 2018
Elizabeth Gamage Hodgkins ’63 in Yarmouth on May 7, 2019
Linda Bonnin Morrison ’63 in Concord, Mass. on July 21, 2020
Lawrence Plaisted ’63, ’72 in Hampden on May 8, 2019
Sandra Rowell Sendzik ’63 in Gorham on September 3, 2019
Ronald Brann ’64 in Westerly, R.I. on November 2, 2020
Wanda Callahan ’64 in Rockport on January 5, 2018
Barbara Fuller ’64 in Chesapeake, Va. on January 14, 2021
Brenda Hilton ’64 in Brunswick on April 2, 2019
Barbara Knox ’64 in Brunswick on January 17, 2019
Dennis Pinkham ’64 in Zephyrhills, Fla. on January 28, 2020
Sylvia Ham Finnemore Thistle ’64 in Skowhegan on January 18, 2020
Brainard Tripp ’65 in Embden on July 7, 2021
William Cost, Jr. ’65 in Bangor on December 18, 2020
Edward Redman ’65 in Augusta on January 12, 2019
Marilyn Burpee Adkins ’66 in Orono on September 7, 2020
Estella Leavitt Whitten ’66 in Clinton on June 27, 2020
Doris LaPointe Brillant ’67 in Brunswick on June 22, 2018
Alton Fuller ’67 in Augusta on May 30, 2020
Victor Michaud ’67 in Augusta on August 4, 2019
Karleen Milton-Gryskwicz ’67 in Standish on March 3, 2020
Margaret T. Brown ’68 in Madison on March 11, 2021
Dora Olive Tibbetts ’68 in Eustis on December 22, 2018
Margaret Collins Whitman ’68 in Manchester on May 14, 2021
Robert Yates ’68 in Cape Coral, Fla. on March 12, 2021
Albert DeRaspe ’69 in Mexico on on March 19, 2020
Alan Hawkins ’69 in Scarborough on February 15, 2020
Mary Kathleen Knight ’69 in Farmington on August 30, 2018
Walter Moody ’69 in Bangor on February 25, 2020
Annette Flynn Roberts ’69 in Glenburn on January 5, 2019
Doreen Dugal Emerson ’70 in Bangor on April 28, 2018
Harriet Perkins Bagley ’71 in Lyndhurst, Ohio on May 9, 2020
Georgia Hamlin ’71 in Taunton, Mass. on July 29, 2021
Nancy Lewis ’71 in Strong on July 8, 2021
Virginia Creswell Moody ’71 in Waterville on October 3, 2020
Yvonne Richard ’71 in Bangor on January 23, 2021
Virginia Sayward ’71 in Farmington on February 13, 2020
Walter Webber, Jr. ’71 in Farmington on January 23, 2021
Allan Wyman ’71 in Farmington on April 15, 2021
Roger Lister ’72 in Lebanon on May 16, 2018
Gene Perry ’72 in Alna on February 8, 2019
Robert Reed ’72 in Wells on January 26, 2019
Jeannette Cobb Conant ’73 in Auburn on August 25, 2020
Gordon Provost ’73 in Skowhegan on November 23, 2019
Thomas W. Riker ’73 in Augusta on February 26, 2018
Theodore Sirois, Jr. ’73 in Auburn on June 3, 2019
Jane Bryson ’74 in Winthrop on February 24, 2019
Brian Dodge ’74 in Bar Harbor on March 19, 2018
William Hollingsworth ’74 in Belgrade Lakes on January 22, 2018
Maureen McDowell ’74 in Yarmouth on November 9, 2018
Paul Sirois ’74 in Portland on September 18, 2020
Richard Verzoni ’74 in Schenectady, N.Y. on January 24, 2021
Laurie McCorrison Bushey ’75 in Augusta on July 27, 2018
Gail Flanders Combs ’75 in Alton on May 29, 2020
Donna Greenlaw ’75 in Scarborough on May 23, 2021
Ruth Sherman ’75 in West Yarmouth, Mass., on October 30, 2018
Lee-Ann Piche Boatwright ’76 in New Britain, Conn., on February 15, 2019
John Boydston ’76 in Greenville on March 27, 2021
Susan Stedman Butters ’76 in Damariscotta on May 8, 2019
Mark FitzGerald ’76 in Oakland on September 6, 2018
Steven Frank ’76 in Manchester on October 10, 2018
Patricia Abbott Miller ’76 in Bingham on March 27, 2021
Tullio Nieman ’76 in Portland on July 26, 2020
Michael Tremble ’76 in Bangor on November 18, 2019
Maria Amero ’77 in Scarborough on April 14, 2018
Janice Butcher Clapp ’77 in Franklin, Tenn., on April 24, 2019
Kathy Johnson Bachelder ’78 in Rome on December 19, 2019
Barbara Vigue Ellis ’78 in Saco on March 17, 2021
Therese Fournier Russell ’78 in Lewiston on October 24, 2019
Bruce Foster ’79 in Chelan, Wash. on August 27, 2020
Gregory Kemp ’79 in Stratton on August 14, 2018
James Duncklee ’80 in Hallowell on April 14, 2018
Shirleyann Ratajczak-Leman ’80 in Augusta on November 8, 2019
Toni Corriveau Cassidy ’81 in Scarborough on August 7, 2019
Nancy Hartlen ’81 in Freeport on April 16, 2018
Crystal Tufts ’81 in Portland on August 22, 2018
David Folsom ’82 in Fairfield on May 23, 2021
Stephen Locke, Jr ’82 in Burlington, Mass. on August 21, 2020
Kathy Smith ’82 in Calais on October 15, 2019
Michael Darcy ’83 in Harrison on October 16, 2018
Margaret Patterson Descoteaux ’83 in Saco on August 19, 2020
Julie Cassidy Cyr ’84 in Remington, Ind. on February 5, 2020
Harriet George ’84 in Jefferson on September 12, 2020
Susan Cote Whiting ’84 in Santa Cruz, Calif. on June 10, 2021
Sarah Weeks ’85 in Portland on October 9, 2019
Caroline Perry Sullivan ’86 in Scarborough on July 29, 2020
Vance Toth ’86 in Smithfield on August 31, 2019
Tammy Westover ’86 in Newport Center, Vt. on January 8, 2021
Jean Kelley ’87 in Pittsfield on October 26, 2020
Laurie Sproul Marcotte ’87 in Poland on January 19, 2019
David Drew ’88 in Portland on January 23, 2019
Barbara Lewis Jewett ’88 in Fayette on September 2, 2018
Stephen Spofford ’88 in Kennebunk on November 24, 2019
Lucinda Talbot ’88 in Saint George on October 23, 2018
Ronald Callahan ’91 in Gardiner on April 23, 2018
Duaine Adkins Jr. ’92 in Dixmont on April 6, 2018
Patricia Brann Jones ’92 in Palermo on February 20, 2019
Muriel Fish ’92 in Smithfield on September 6, 2018
Hazel Doiron Shorey ’93 in Scarborough on January 5, 2020
Thomas Fifield ’94 in Portland on November 18, 2018
Robin Lynn Stinson ’94 in Saco on February 25, 2019
David Corkum ’95 in Burlington, Mass. on November 18, 2019
Alan Gerace ’96 in Lewiston on February 25, 2018
Catherine McDonald ’97 in Bar Harbor on April 28, 2019
Louise LaBlanche Greene ’00 in Skowhegan on December 31, 2019
Linda Kittredge ’03 in Naples, Fla. on March 21, 2018
Justin Nylen ’06 in South Portland on March 12, 2019
Taylor Steeves ’10 in Standish on July 22, 2018
Brewster Taber Hammond ’10 in Pieta, Malta, on April 15, 2018
Joyce Elliott ’11 in Lewiston on February 4, 2018
Daniel Capone ’18 in Anderson, Ind. on March 26, 2021
Faculty, Staff, and Friends
Mark Shibles, Former Board of Visitors Member, in Auburn on August 24, 2021
Glenn Frankenfield, Former Professor of English, in Machias on May 30, 2021
Sandra Johnson, Former Education Instructor, in Hallowell on April 13, 2021
Richard Talbot, Former Sociology Professor, in Worchester, Mass. on March 12, 2021
Malcolm Bransky, Professor Emeritus of Early Childhood Education, in Vienna on January 3, 2021
Al Bersbach, Former Manager of Network and Server Systems, in Portland on December 12, 2020
Lee Sharkey, Former Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies, in Portland on October 18, 2020
John “Jack” Quinn, Professor Emeritus of Government and Political Science, in Riverview, Fla. on May 13, 2020
Beverly “Nikki” Nicholson Adams, former head of Art Department, on March 18, 2020
Anne C. Geller, founder and former director of Foothills Arts, on May 25, 2019
Agatha Forsyth, Former Maintenance Mechanic, Kearney, Neb., on March 25, 2019
Grace Denison, Former Special Education Professor, in Durham, N.C., on March 3, 2019
Alma Burgess, Former Secretary of Continuing Education and Registrar’s Office, in New Sharon on February 17, 2019
Robert A. McCully, Former Custodian & Maintenance Worker, in Farmington on January 16, 2019
Richard Bragg, Former Oil Burner Mechanic, in Auburn on November 22, 2018
Joan Small ’94, Former Reference Librarian at Mantor Library, in Farmington on October 3, 2018
Thomas Eastler, Professor Emeritus of Natural Sciences, in Farmington on August 30, 2018
Paula Donovan Edwards, Cottage Baby,* in Augusta on August 28, 2018
J. Anthony McLaughlin, Former Director of Admissions, in Wilton on August 18, 2018
James D. Toner, Director of the Fitness and Recreation Center, in New Vineyard on July 16, 2018
Joanne Southworth, Professor Emerita of Early Childhood Education, in Boston, Mass., on April 19, 2018
Patricia Davidson, Former Assistant to the Vice President for Administration, in Farmington on April 13, 2018
Nick Scott, Professor Emeritus of Theater, in East Vassalboro on March 23, 2018
*Practical experience was an important part of the Home Economics curriculum at Farmington State Normal School, which then maintained a cottage on campus where students could gain child care and child rearing experience with “cottage babies.” Farmington State Normal School had its first “cottage baby” in 1927. Some “cottage babies” came from the Maine Children’s Home for Little Wanderers in Waterville, while others were infants of unwed mothers wishing to place children for adoption. Senior Home Economics students shared the responsibility of running the cottage household, which involved preparing meals, maintaining the house, and caring for infants.