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

Alice Johnson Blair ’42 in Danville, Vt. on March 20, 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

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

George Goforth ’50 in Scarborough on January 1, 2023

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

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

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

Diane Robbins Hamlin ’56 in Topsham on March 27, 2023

Helen Packard McLaughlin ’56 in Shrewsbury, Mass. on June 2, 2023

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

Allyn Ward ’59 in Masardis on June 22, 2023

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

Marshall Thombs ’61 in New Sharon on June 7, 2023

George Whitten ’61 in Norwich, Conn. on March 8, 2022

Anne Fowler Daigle ’62 in Biddeford on July 29, 2021

Robert Fish ’62 in Scarborough on November 21, 2022

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

Weston Keene ’63 in Nobleboro on May 4, 2023

Sandra Hawes Lord ’63 in Portland on May 31, 2023

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

Connie Knowles Mulcahy ’64 in Trinity, Fla. on February 12, 2023

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

Mary Alice Haskell ’69 in Bangor on April 13, 2023

Bryant LaPlante ’69 in Scarborough on July 24, 2021

Lorraine Messer Tamas ’69 in Bridgeport, Conn. on August 16, 2022

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

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

Barbara Belanger ’72 in Brunswick on May 2, 2023

Mark Flaherty ’72 in Portland on June 5, 2023

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

Jeannette Urban Rice ’73 in Falmouth on April 25, 2023

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

Juanita Hollingsworth-Vautour ’77 in Belgrade Lakes on June 3, 2023

Diane Credit Reynolds ’77 in Scarborough on June 30, 2021

Jeannine Reed Wilkins ’77 in Livermore Falls on March 9, 2023

Barbara Vigue Ellis ’78 in Saco on March 17, 2021

John Franzino ’79 in Red Hook, N.Y. on April 16, 2023

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

Rosemary Nash Bowlby ’81 in Farmington on February 6, 2023

David Folsom ’82 in Fairfield on May 23, 2021

Camilla Jordan ’83 in Wilton on February 9, 2023

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

Gail Lewis ’94 in Lowell, Mass. on April 4, 2023

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

Charles White ’02 in Augusta on February 6, 2023

Debra Foster ’04 in Carrollton, Ga. on July 12, 2021

Karl Becker ’07 in Post, Texas on March 31, 2022

Davin Currie ’09 in Hawaii on March 27, 2023

Daniel Capone ’18 in Anderson, Ind. on March 26, 2021

Zachary Nadeau ’18 in Augusta on August 12, 2021


Faculty, Staff, and Friends

“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 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