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
Ruth Berry MacLean ’40 in Colebrook, N.H., on July 15, 2018
Harriet Hodges Robbins ’41 in Morrisville, Vt., on August 8, 2018
Miriam Buck Chaffee ’42 in St. Clair, Mich., on June 2, 2018
Virginia Curtis Cole ’42 in South Paris on March 6, 2018
Mary Merry Oatway ’43 in Northfield, Vt., on November 17, 2018
Henrietta Wright Wheeler-Manley ’44 in Contoocook, N.H., on October 8, 2018
Caroline Hilton Sturtevant ’45 in Belgrade on December 30, 2018
Georgette Britt Maloney Mancuso ’46 in East Longmeadow, MA on December 10, 2018
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
Grace Downey Poulin ’49 in Ellsworth on January 16, 2018
Hilda Carver Swan ’49 in Brewer on March 15, 2018
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
Richard Bartlett ’52 in Brunswick on January 24, 2018
Patricia E. Wilson ’52 in Millinockett on December 22, 2018
Nathaniel Cousens ’53 in South Thomaston on December 23, 2018
Thomas Kannally ’53 in New Portland on April 7, 2018
Douglas Doyon ’54 in Dexter on September 13, 2018
Evelyn Murphy Ferrari ’54 in Farmington on January 22, 2018
Blaine Atwood ’55 in Hampden on April 18, 2018
Norma Bridges Butera ’55 in Hampden on October 24, 2018
Mary Louise Burns ’58 in Norway on December 7, 2018
Rita Gagnon Lee Fuller ’58 in Voorhees, N.J., on January 15, 2018
Ralph Bushey ’60 in Waterville on November 19, 2018
Reta Kinney Herrick ’60 in Lewiston on January 6, 2018
Charles Richard Dyke ’61, ’72 in Zephyrhills, Fla., on October 8, 2018
Peter Jannace ’61 in Brockton, Mass., on May 29, 2018
Mary Watson Lemieux ’61 in Topsham on January 3, 2019
Richard Walker ’62 in Wareham, Mass., on January 28, 2018
Sterling Hinkley ’63 in Turner on June 12, 2018
Wanda Callahan ’64 in Rockport on January 5, 2018
Edward Redman ’65 in Augusta on January 12, 2019
Doris LaPointe Brillant ’67 in Brunswick on June 22, 2018
Dora Olive Tibbetts ’68 in Eustis on December 22, 2018
Mary Kathleen Knight ’69 in Farmington on August 30, 2018
Doreen Dugal Emerson ’70 in Bangor on April 28, 2018
Roger Lister ’72 in Lebanon on May 16, 2018
Thomas W. Riker ’73 in Augusta on February 26, 2018
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
Laurie McCorrison Bushey ’75 in Augusta on July 27, 2018
Ruth Sherman ’75 in West Yarmouth, Mass., on October 30, 2018
Mark FitzGerald ’76 in Oakland on September 6, 2018
Steven Frank ’76 in Manchester on October 10, 2018
Maria Amero ’77 in Scarborough on April 14, 2018
James Duncklee ’80 in Hallowell on April 14, 2018
Nancy Hartlen ’81 in Freeport on April 16, 2018
Michael Darcy ’83 in Harrison on October 16, 2018
Barbara Lewis Jewett ’88 in Fayette on September 2, 2018
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
Muriel Fish ’92 in Smithfield on September 6, 2018
Thomas Fifield ’94 in Portland on November 18, 2018
Alan Gerace ’96 in Lewiston on February 25, 2018
Taylor Steeves ’10 in Standish on July 22, 2018
Brewster Taber Hammond ’10 in Pieta, Malta, on April 15, 2018
Joyce Elliott M.S.Ed.’11 in Lewiston on February 4, 2018
Faculty, Staff, and Friends
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.