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
Patricia Leland Mereen ’47 in Norwich, Conn., on March 25, 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
Dorothy Small Collins ’51 in Rockland on June 19, 2018
Richard Bartlett ’52 in Brunswick on January 24, 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
Rita Gagnon Lee Fuller ’58 in Voorhees, N.J., on January 15, 2018
Reta Kinney Herrick ’60 in Lewiston on January 6, 2018
Peter Jannace ’61 in Brockton, MA on May 29, 2018
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
Doris LaPointe Brillant ’67 in Brunswick on June 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
Laurie McCorrison Bushey ’75 in Augusta on July 27, 2018
Mark FitzGerald ‘76 in Oakland on September 6, 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
Barbara Lewis Jewett ‘88 in Fayette on September 2, 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
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 and Staff
Thomas Eastler, Professor Emeritus of Natural Sciences, in Farmington on August 30, 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