The UMF Community remembers these beloved alumni and friends who have passed since January 1, 2022 (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.
Alumni
Martha Green Rollins ’40 in Dover Foxcroft on February 25, 2024
Alice Johnson Blair ’42 in Danville, Vt. on March 20, 2023
Margaret Umphrey Vaughn Allen ’43 in Washburn on July 23, 2023
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
Madeleine Hughes Bentley ’49 in Fairfield on February 25, 2022
Alice Bryer Burnham ’49 in Johnsbury, Vt. on June 7, 2022
Betty Boothby ’49 in Farmington on February 19, 2024
Elsie Tibbetts Adams ’50 in Augusta on May 28, 2022
George Goforth ’50 in Scarborough on January 1, 2023
Ruth Webber McGary ’50 in Auburn on June 16, 2022
Ramona McLain Swett ’51 in Farmington on January 17, 2022
Constance Libby Boyko ’51 in South Windsor on March 3, 2024
Patricia Cowan Grant ’52 in Farmington on January 25, 2025
Roberta Snell Knowles ’52 in Skowhegan on October 15, 2023
Jean Stevens Ferrari ’52 in Farmington on October 27, 2022
Norman Lyford ’52 in Ashburn, Va. on October 30, 2022
Janis Moore Cross ’53 in Hallowell on December 8, 2022
Carolyn McCollister Parr ’53 in Farmington on August 29, 2022
Lillian Harpin ’53 in Manchester, CT on July 13, 2023
Pauline Welch ’53 in Auburn on November 30, 2023
Erland “Joe” Penley ’53 in Yarmouth on July 21, 2024
Jean MacPherson Matheson ’54 in Augusta on April 10, 2023
Richard Rowell ’54 in Greenfield Center, N.Y. on November 8, 2022
Patricia Sawyer ’54 in Gorham on March 25, 2023
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
Barbara Wilson Pinkham ’55 in Oakland on December 19, 2023
Shirley Hjulstrom Forsman ’55 in Willow Spring, NH on February 28, 2024
Jeanne Stowe ’55 in Farmington on March 30, 2024
Priscilla Edwards Small ’55 in Readfield on April 11, 2025
Carolyn Bradeen Peacock ’55 in Tucson, AZ on April 25, 2024
Diane Robbins Hamlin ’56 in Topsham on March 27, 2023
Helen Packard McLaughlin ’56 in Shrewsbury, Mass. on June 2, 2023
Roberta Cram Chandler ’57 in Lovell on January 26, 2022
Colleen Rowell Condon ’57 in Farmington on May 30, 2022
Judith Adams Pinkham ’57 in Waterville on June 5, 2024
Margaret Marriam Ellsworth ’57 in Rockland on March 29, 2025
Doralice Sawyer Butterfield ’58 in Jay on September 25, 2022
Bryce Meldrum ’58
Charlene Brown ’58 in North Berwick on July 27, 2025
Allyn Ward ’59 in Masardis on June 22, 2023
Henry Harlow ’60 in Portland on March 13, 2022
Richard Guy Mullen ’59 in South Portland on December 15, 2023
Kathleen Martin Humphrey ’60 in Bangor on January 25, 2022
Christine McGlaughlin Slocum ’60 in Chelsea on August 19, 2024
Marshall Thombs ’61 in New Sharon on June 7, 2023
Rosaire Martin ’61 in Fort Kent on July 23, 2023
George Whitten ’61 in Norwich, Conn. on March 8, 2022
Franklin Hodges ’61 in Scarborough on November 1, 2023
Charles Knauer ’61 in Lewiston on September 2, 2023
George Ezzy ’61 in Sidney on September 3, 2023
Charlotte M. Stevens ’61 in Sutton VT on December 6, 2023
Paul S Hurlburt ’61 in Leesburg FL on January 1, 2024
John “Jack” Dupal ’62 in Lisbon on December 13, 2023
Robert Fish ’62 in Scarborough on November 21, 2022
Rene Couture ’62 in Lewiston on February 21, 2024
Larry Gardner Foster ’62 in Lewiston on April 2, 2025
Bruce Bell ’63 in Auburn on January 13, 2023
Barbara Morway Harvey ’63 in Portland on September 2, 2022
Weston Keene ’63 in Nobleboro on May 4, 2023
Sandra Hawes Lord ’63 in Portland on May 31, 2023
Bette Arsenault ’63 in Lewiston on March 17, 2024
Jean Mills Hubbard ’63 in Canaan on December 15, 2024
Brenna Thorton ’64 in Bangor
Connie Knowles Mulcahy ’64 in Trinity, Fla. on February 12, 2023
Audrey Viles McGee ’65 in Portland on September 6, 2023
David Cunningham ’65 in Galloway, N.J. on May 14, 2022
Herbert Oliver ’65 in Waterville on March 10, 2024
Jean Heald Gilbert ’66 in Ipswich, Mass. on May 15, 2022
Diane (Lunden) Laing ’66 in Warren on November 7, 2023
Gregg Botka ’67 in Lincoln Plantation on October 21, 2022
Gary Chretien ’67 in Farmington on October 22, 2024
Ronald Dennett ’67 in Zephyrhills, FL on January 16, 2025
Robert Michael ’68 in Pine Bush, NY on September 3, 2023
Jacqueline Grant Hayes ’68 in Cape Elizabeth on February 21, 2024
Clarice Dunham ’68 in Dixfield on February 22, 2024
Mary Alice Haskell ’69 in Bangor on April 13, 2023
Lorraine Messer Tamas ’69 in Bridgeport, Conn. on August 16, 2022
Meridith Minear ’69 in Auburn on February 18, 2024
Irving “IJ” Pinkham ’69 in Boothbay on April 15, 2025
Robin Sanborn Perry ’70 in Titusville, Fla. on January 25, 2023
Louise Townsend ’70 in Nelson Hill on September 15, 2022
Gary Young ’70 in Johnston, R.I. on February 16, 2023
Nancy E. Thurber ’70 in Falmouth in August, 2023
Susan Gatchell ’70 in Lewiston on January 24, 2024
James Paul Rene Cyr ’70 in Tallahassee FL, on November 8, 2023
Valerie Healey ’70 in Portland on April 27, 2025
James Drinkwater ’70 in Guilford on May 1, 2025
Dennis Lee Dorey ’71 in Lewiston on March 10, 2022
Ronald F. Arquette ’71 in Farmingdale on November 12, 2022
Carletta Pettingill Nevers ’71 in Hanover, N.H. on December 5, 2022
Victoria J. Meisner ’71 in Andover on December 5, 2023
Barry P. Legassey ’71 in Millinocket on May 6, 2023
Carol Stuart ’71 in California on February 3, 2024
Charles Parlin ’71 in Bangor on June 29, 2024
Barry Thomas ’71 in Waterville on October 1, 2024
Shirley Ann Merrill ’71 in Lewiston on April 14, 2025
Barbara Belanger ’72 in Brunswick on May 2, 2023
Mark Flaherty ’72 in Portland on June 5, 2023
Shelley Reed ’72 in Taipei City, Taiwan on September 17, 2023
Jeanette Thompson Stevens ’72 in Farmington on June 13, 2022
William A. Shardlow ’72 in North Yarmouth on January 15, 2024
Theodore Gotto ’73 in Roxbury, MA on July 1, 2023
Maureen Foley-Hester ’73 in Falmouth on July 17, 2022
Jeannette Urban Rice ’73 in Falmouth on April 25, 2023
Susan Beauchesne ’73 in Tallahassee FL on February 10, 2024
Diane Kearney Engler ’74 in Skowhegan on October 5, 2022
Edward Gayton, III ’74 in Portland on August 29, 2022
Lynn Boynton Wirta ’74 in Hermon on November 13, 2022
Lloyd Conners ’74 in Ripley on August 5, 2023
Dolores O. Hersey ’74 in Hallowell on January 17, 2023
Raymond Michaud ’74 in Orlando, FL on February 3, 2024
Patricia Blackstone ’75 in Skowhegan on September 3, 2022
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
Donna Heath Gay ’75 in August, 2023
Patti Levenson ’76 in Georgetown, Fla. on January 6, 2023
Juanita Hollingsworth-Vautour ’77 in Belgrade Lakes on June 3, 2023
Jeannine Reed Wilkins ’77 in Livermore Falls on March 9, 2023
Elaine Trumble ’77 in Boston on March 29, 2024
Richard “Dickey” Levesque ’78 in Augusta on August 16, 2023
Roxana Lemos Thomas ’78 in Pawtucket on December 1, 2023
John Franzino ’79 in Red Hook, N.Y. on April 16, 2023
Donna Norwood Bowman ’79 in Fairfield on September 9, 2022
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
Janet A. Wilk ’80 in Brunswick on August 31, 2024
Rosemary Nash Bowlby ’81 in Farmington on February 6, 2023
Nano Scott Zachary ’81 in Scarborough on November 19, 2023
Thomas E. Ross ’81 in Owls Head on March 27, 2024
Edmund C Wight ’82
Camilla Jordan ’83 in Wilton on February 9, 2023
James Tolman ’84 in Brunswick, Ohio on January 13, 2023
Dwayne L. Sprague ’85 in Santa Monica, CA on October 30, 2024
Holly Douglas Graffam ’87 in Falmouth on December 2, 2022
Irene M. Berry ’88 in Farmington on December 29, 2024
Boyd ‘Skip’ Ladd I ’89 in Farmington on February 2, 2022
David Greenleaf Vosmus Jr. ’89 in Wildwood, Fla. on April 23, 2022
Kenneth A. Wheeler ’89 in Columbus, TX. on March 21, 2025
Laura Kwon ’90 in Auburn on June 20, 2024
Anita McFarland ’91 in Industry on February 6, 2024
Candice Berger Parent ’93 in Oakland, ME on October 27, 2023
Gail Lewis ’94 in Lowell, Mass. on April 4, 2023
Becky Nelson Young ’94 in Manchester, N.H. on October 13, 2022
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
Laurie H. Soucy ’00 in Rumford on March 31, 2025
Seth Dolan Barden ’02 in Old Town on January 21, 2022
Hugh Rowley ’02 in Rumford on May 23, 2022
Charles White ’02 in Augusta on February 6, 2023
Melanie Hanoian ’03 in North Monmouth on October 31, 2023
Karl Becker ’07 in Post, Texas on March 31, 2022
Davin Currie ’09 in Hawaii on March 27, 2023
Faculty / Staff
Gerry Durrell, Former Building & Grounds Maintenance Worker, in Farmington on December 22, 2024
Thomas H. Reynolds, Former Alpine Coach and UMF Ski Industries Program founder, in Newport NH on March 13, 2024
Anita McFarland ’91 in Industry on February 6, 2024
Dr. Betsy Squibb, Former Early Childhood Faculty 1976-2013, in Farmington January 28, 2024
Dr. Rodney Farmer, Former Professor of Social Studies Education 1978-2013, in Augusta January 29, 2024
“Coach” Roger Wing, Former Director of Athletics, in Portland on March 22, 2023
Dona Seegers, Former Art Lecturer, in Mt. Vernon on February 12, 2023
Roy Lamkin, Former Master Electrician, in Farmington on January 26, 2023
Richard “Dick” 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
Robert (Bob) Decker, Former Custodian 1993-1997, in Wilton on March 1, 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
Richard Condon, Former History Professor, in Farmington on August 28, 2023
Pat Onion, Former English Professor 1972-74, in Vienna on November 18,2023