The UMF Community remembers these beloved alumni and friends who have passed since January 1, 2021 (for previous years, click here). 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.
On November 6, the UMF community hosted a celebration of life service for legendary UMF basketball coach Richard “Dick” Meader, who died on October 16, 2022. Hundreds of former athletes, family members and friends filled seats on the gym court and bleachers. Donations in Dick’s name will fund the University of Maine at Farmington Athletics Hall of Fame, planned for the Dearborn Gymnasium lobby. We’ll share news of progress on the project later this year.
Alumni
Avis Umphrey Johnson ’40 in South Portland on January 20, 2021
Janet Doe Robinson ’41 in Bingham on November 25, 2021
Phyllis Theriault ’44 in Scarborough on December 14, 2022
Glenice Nelson Bowie ’45 in Auburn on February 3, 2023
Frances Jackson Gould ’45 in Skowhegan on June 17, 2022
Mae Churchill Crooker ’47 in Northwood, N.H. on November 22, 2021
Marion Shorey Cook ’48 in Houlton on August 12, 2021
Madeleine Hughes Bentley ’49 in Fairfield on February 25, 2022
Alice Bryer Burnham ’49 in Johnsbury, Vt. on June 7, 2022
Elsie Tibbetts Adams ’50 in Augusta on May 28, 2022
Ruth Webber McGary ’50 in Auburn on June 16, 2022
Gerald “Red” Briggs Sr. ’51 in Orrington on November 6, 2021
John Phocas, Jr. ’51 in Naples, Fla. on October 26, 2021
Ramona McLain Swett ’51 in Farmington on January 17, 2022
Eleanor Compton Berry ’52 in Portland on June 8, 2021
Jean Stevens Ferrari ’52 in Farmington on October 27, 2022
Eunice Fraser ’52 in Brunswick on October 10, 2021
Norman Lyford ’52 in Ashburn, Va. on October 30, 2022
Priscilla Cousins Nutting ’52 in Clinton on September 27, 2021
Margie Peabody ’52 in Union on October 29, 2021
Janis Moore Cross ’53 in Hallowell on December 8, 2022
Carolyn McCollister Parr ’53 in Farmington on August 29, 2022
Joanne Burns Sorenson ’53 in Scarborough on August 24, 2021
Mary Lou Rosmond Fraser ’54 in Gorham on February 2, 2021
Richard Rowell ’54 in Greenfield Center, N.Y. on November 8, 2022
Joan Huston Swett ’54 in Iowa City, Iowa on May 1, 2021
John Weldon ’54 in Jacksonville, Fla. on October 3, 2021
Carmen Rowell Crocker ’55 in Farmington on August 3, 2022
Lillian Munn Huntington ’55 in Mechanicsburg, Pa. on May 7, 2022
Jacqueline Jackson ’55 in Middletown, Conn. on October 30, 2022
Samuel Talbot ’55 in Scarborough on December 30, 2021
Louise Watson Williamson ’55 in Jefferson on January 13, 2021
Henry Carey ’57 in Thomaston on October 8, 2021
Roberta Cram Chandler ’57 in Lovell on January 26, 2022
Colleen Rowell Condon ’57 in Farmington on May 30, 2022
Ann Fraser ’57 in Appleton, Mich on August 26, 2021
Doralice Sawyer Butterfield ’58 in Jay on September 25, 2022
Martha Colbath Donahue ’58 in Lewiston on February 2, 2021
Jay Scribner ’58 in Dallas, Texas on September 11, 2021
Elizabeth Swan Stearns ’58 in Dixfield on September 1, 2021
Frank Young ’58 in Norway on January 1, 2021
Henry Harlow ’60 in Portland on March 13, 2022
Kathleen Martin Humphrey ’60 in Bangor on January 25, 2022
James McLaughlin ’60 in Brewer on March 1, 2021
Bradford Buker ’61 in Winslow on May 22, 2021
George Whitten ’61 in Norwich, Conn. on March 8, 2022
Anne Fowler Daigle ’62 in Biddeford on July 29, 2021
Pamelia Willard Gage ’62 in Lakeland, Fla. on August 7, 2021
Barbara Smythe Whitten ’62 in Norwich, Conn. on January 24, 2021
Bruce Bell ’63 in Auburn on January 13, 2023
Barbara Morway Harvey ’63 in Portland on September 2, 2022
Joyce Pickard Camp ’64 in Biddeford on December 27, 2021
Barbara Fuller ’64 in Chesapeake, Va. on January 14, 2021
Wayne Mowatt ’64 in Presque Isle on November 28, 2021
David Cunningham ’65 in Galloway, N.J. on May 14, 2022
Brainard Tripp ’65 in Embden on July 7, 2021
Jean Heald Gilbert ’66 in Ipswich, Mass. on May 15, 2022
Gregg Botka ’67 in Lincoln Plantation on October 21, 2022
Margaret T. Brown ’68 in Madison on March 11, 2021
Ruth Davison ’68 in Southport on July 19, 2021
Margaret Collins Whitman ’68 in Manchester on May 14, 2021
Robert Yates ’68 in Cape Coral, Fla. on March 12, 2021
Margaret Bushnell ’69 in Albuquerque, N.M. on October 24, 2021
Bryant LaPlante ’69 in Scarborough on July 24, 2021
Lorraine Messer Tamas ’69 in Bridgeport, Conn. on August 16, 2022
Louise Townsend ’70 in Nelson Hill on September 15, 2022
Dennis Lee Dorey ’71 in Lewiston on March 10, 2022
Georgia Hamlin ’71 in Taunton, Mass. on July 29, 2021
Nancy Lewis ’71 in Strong on July 8, 2021
James Martin ’71 in Caribou on November 16, 2021
Carletta Pettingill Nevers ’71 in Hanover, N.H. on December 5, 2022
Yvonne Richard ’71 in Bangor on January 23, 2021
Walter Webber, Jr. ’71 in Farmington on January 23, 2021
Allan Wyman ’71 in Farmington on April 15, 2021
Deborah Romer ’72 in Middleboro, Mass. on August 19, 2019
Jeanette Thompson Stevens ’72 in Farmington on June 13, 2022
Doris Putnam Tripp ’72 in Farmington on May 13, 2019
Maureen Foley-Hester ’73 in Falmouth on July 17, 2022
Alan Carey ’74 in Readfield on October 13, 2021
Philip Edwards ’74 in Thomaston on September 9, 2021
Diane Kearney Engler ’74 in Skowhegan on October 5, 2022
Edward Gayton, III ’74 in Portland on August 29, 2022
Richard Verzoni ’74 in Schenectady, N.Y. on January 24, 2021
Lynn Boynton Wirta ’74 in Hermon on November 13, 2022
Patricia Blackstone ’75 in Skowhegan on September 3, 2022
Donna Greenlaw ’75 in Scarborough on May 23, 2021
Emily Doak Hartung ’75 in Sidney on September 12, 2022
Margaret Saunders ’75 in Bradenton, Fla. on August 11, 2022
Guy Stickney, Jr. ’75 in Bridgton on May 13, 2022
Ronald Voisine ’75 in Fairfield on June 12, 2022
John Boydston ’76 in Greenville on March 27, 2021
Patti Levenson ’76 in Georgetown, Fla. on January 6, 2023
Patricia Abbott Miller ’76 in Bingham on March 27, 2021
Diane Credit Reynolds ’77 in Scarborough on June 30, 2021
Barbara Vigue Ellis ’78 in Saco on March 17, 2021
Therese Fournier Russell ’78 in Lewiston on October 24, 2019
Donna Norwood Bowman ’79 in Fairfield on September 9, 2022
Danny Scribner ’79 in Phillips on November 20, 2021
Wendy Bowler ’80 in South Portland on March 4, 2022
Martha Woods Briggs ’80 in Portland on June 14, 2022
Deborah McAfee ’80 in Windham on May 18, 2022
David Folsom ’82 in Fairfield on May 23, 2021
James Tolman ’84 in Brunswick, Ohio on January 13, 2023
Susan Cote Whiting ’84 in Santa Cruz, Calif. on June 10, 2021
Tammy Westover ’86 in Newport Center, Vt. on January 8, 2021
Holly Douglas Graffam ’87 in Falmouth on December 2, 2022
Tara Yando-Turley ’87 in Boston, Mass. on July 25, 2021
Deborah Tufts Auch ’88 in Farmington on November 5, 2021
Boyd ‘Skip’ Ladd I ’89 in Farmington on February 2, 2022
David Greenleaf Vosmus Jr. ’89 in Wildwood, Fla. on April 23, 2022
Kathy Miller Morrissette ’90 in Grand Junction, Colo. on July 17, 2021
Bethany Varney Mogan ’91 in Portland on November 25, 2021
Elizabeth Kimball Redstone ’91 Pittsfield, Mass. on December 14, 2021
Margaret Toomey Vallerand ’91 in Greene on November 17, 2021
Helen McKendry ’94 in Manchester on August 25, 2021
James Pignataro ’94 in Okemos, Mich on August 26, 2021
Becky Nelson Young ’94 in Manchester, N.H. on October 13, 2022
Germaine Bell ’95 in Bangor on September 19, 2021
Donna Cote Driscoll ’97 in Monmouth on December 6, 2021
Peter Morin ’97 in Scarborough on December 3, 2022
Tina White ’98 in Turner on July 23, 2022
Erica Butler ’99 in Auburn on January 19, 2022
William Spearrin Jr. ’00 in Braintree, Mass. on January 4, 2022
Seth Dolan Barden ’02 in Old Town on January 21, 2022
Hugh Rowley ’02 in Rumford on May 23, 2022
Debra Foster ’04 in Carrollton, Ga. on July 12, 2021
Karl Becker ’07 in Post, Texas on March 31, 2022
Daniel Capone ’18 in Anderson, Ind. on March 26, 2021
Zachary Nadeau ’18 in Augusta on August 12, 2021
Faculty, Staff, and Friends
Roy Lamkin, Former Master Electrician, in Farmington on January 26, 2023
Richard Meader ’68, Former Head Coach of Men’s Basketball, in Waterville on October 16, 2022
Ruby Hardy, Former Administrative Assistant, in New Sharon on October 10, 2022
Linda Gamble, Former Special Projects Coordinator, in Bethel on August 22, 2022
Betty Beach, Former Professor of Early Childhood Education, in Lincolnville on July 29, 2022
Andrea Southard, Former Professor of Theater, in Kansas City, Mo. on January 25, 2022
David Gibson, Former Professor of Geology, in Farmington on December 28, 2021
Beverly Collins, Former Administrative Assistant in the Visual and Performing Arts Department, in Farmington on August 6, 2021
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