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Obituaries
Raffaele
Amadei
DEATH NOTICE:
In Westbrook, August 10, at his home,
864 Main Street, Raffaele Amadei, aged 84 years'
Funeral Saturday
morning at 8:30 o'clock from 795 Main Street. High Mass of
Requiem at 9:15 o'clock in St. Mary's chuch. Interment in
Calvary Cemetery.
Source: Newspaper: Press
Herald Date: August 12, 1950 Submitters Name: Mary C
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CLARKE,
Ephraim
DIED ---At Cape-Elizbeth on
Monday evening last, the Rev. EPHRAIM CLARKE, in the 76th year o
fhis age. His funeral will be Tomorrow at half past 1 o'
clock, P.M. at his late dwelling house--from whence the procession
will move to the Meeting house, and a Discourse will be delivered on
the occasion, by the Rev. Tristram Gilman, of North Yarmouth.
The friends and acquaintance to the deceased are requested to attend
without further invitation.
source: Oriental
Trumpet,12-14-1797
Submitted by: Cindy (McIntire)
Johnson
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DYER,
Micah
Obit: In Cape-Elizabeth,
Last week, Mr. Micah Dyer,
aged 68
[source:Oriental Trumpet ,Date:
12-14-1797]
Submitters Name: Cindy (McIntire)
Johnson
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Funeral
of the late Judge Gorham
Portland Gazette, Monday, July 30,
1804
On
Wednesday last, the remains of the Hon. William Gorham were
committed to the grave. A number of citizens of the town of
Portland and of other towns, joined those of the town of Gorham, to
manifest their last token of respect for their departed
friend. The procession was extensive. Besides those who
followed the corpse on horseback and on foot, there were upwards of
seventy carriages. The order of the procession was as
follows:
The Clergy.
Justices of the County.
Gentlemen
of the Bar.
The Sheriff.
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Pall
bearers
Stephen Longfellow, Esq.,
John
Deane, Esq.,
Robert Southgate, Esq., |
The
Corpse |
Pall
bearers
John
Frothingham, Esq.,
George Lewis, Esq.,
Wm. Thompsonl,
Esq. |
Relatives
Citizens of the town of
Gorham.
Citizens of Portland and other towns.
The procession moved
from the mansion of the deceased (that place which once knew him,
but will hereafter know him no more) about half after
three.
The corpse was carried to the
meeting house, about two miles distant where the following services
were well performed, viz:
A Funeral Hymn, by a choir belonging to
the Parish.
A prayer by the Rev. Mr. Noyes.
An Eulogy by the
Rev. Mr. Hilliard.
The corpse was
thence borne to the Grave, followed by the mourners in the same
order, and was deposited about half past six o’clock. There is
must rest until the voice of the archangel and the trump of God
shall at his command call it forth at the genereal
resurrection.
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J Stanley
Guevin
Obit: Portland,
ME:
J Stanley Guevin, 59, of 248 Pleasant Ave., died Saturday in
a local hospital after a brief illness. Born April 6, 1909,
Mr. Guevin lived in Portland throughout his life. He was the
son of Louis H and Maude Bimson Guevin.
Mr. Guevin attented local
schools and later enrolled at the Catholic Institute. He was
employed by the Severn-Wylie-Jewett Co as a linotype operator for
many years. Mr. Guevin was a communicant of St Joseph's
Church, a charter member of the Portland Fire Buffs, Box 61 and a
member of the Msgr. Houlihan Council K of C. During World War II he
served with the 3rd Armored Division in Europe.
Mr. Guevin is
survived by one sister, Mrs. Joseph Sanborn, with whom he resided;
four nieces and nephews; 14 grandnieces and grandnephews, and
several cousins.
Prayers will be said at the Conroy Funeral Home,
172 State St, at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday, followed by a concelebrated High
Mass of Requiem in St Joseph's Church at 10 a.m. Interment
will be in Calvary Cemetery.
[source:Press Herald, Date: June
30, 1968]
Submitters Name: Mary C Cargile
Maud Bimson Guevin
Obit: PORTLAND, ME:
Maud M Guevin of 243 Pleasant
Avenue, widow of Louis H. Guevin, in Portland, August 9, at her
residence.
Funeral Saturday morning at 8:30 am, Solemn High Mass
aof Requiem in St Joseph's Church at 9 am. Members of the St
Joseph's Women's Sodality Council will meet a 8 o'clock Friday
evening at the residence for recitation of the Rosary. Members of St
Elizabeth Circle D of L will meet at her home for prayers Friday at
8:30pm.
Mrs Guevin was born Maud Stoddart Bimson on September
16, 1875 in Nantwich, Cheshire, England
[Source:Press Herald,
Date: August 12, 1950]
Submitters Name: Mary C
Cargile
Irene Guevin
Feeney
Obit: Portland, ME:
Mrs.
Irene M Feeney, 72, widow of John Feeney and a resident of 30
Lafayette St, died Saturday night in a local hospital after a short
illness.
Born May 13, 1903, in Portland, she was the daughter of
the late Frank and Ida Guevin. Educated in local schools
and a graduate of Cathredral Highschool, she resided in Portland all
of her life. She was a communicant of the Cathredral of the
Immaculate Conception.
Mr. Feeney died in 1942.
She is
survived by a son, Herbert W Feeney of Forty Fort, PA; three
grandchildren, three great-grandchildren; and two nieces.
Funeral
services will be held at 9:30am today at 749 Congress St. with a
Mass of Christian gburial at 10 in the Cathedral of the Immaculate
Conception. Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery
[source: Press Herald , Date: June 11,
1975]
Submitted by: Mary C
Cargile
Agnes E Guevin
Obit:
PORTLAND, ME:
Agnes E Guevin, 82, of Brighton Ave, passed away
peacefully early Friday morning, Jan 30, 2004, at Mercy Hospital
following a brief illness.
In 1921 Mrs. Guevin was born to an
extended Irish immigrant family that resided in the Newbury Street
area of Portland, at the base of Mynjoy Hill. After graduating
from Cathedral High School in 1939, Mrs. Guevin was employed
with the A&P Bakery on Kennebec Street. It was there she
met Ronald, her husband to be. They were married after his
return from World War II in 1945. With the death of her
husband in 1983, Mrs. Guevin focused her attention on her family.
She is predeceased by an infant daughter, Barbara Guevin, in
1952; two sisters, Shelley Mellon and Mary Lebeda; a brother Joseph
Foley; and her husband, Ronaldo Guevin.
She leaves two sons,
Edward J Guevin and his wife, Phyllis, and Ronald Guevin, both of
Portland; a sister, Theresea Arich of Portland; and four
grandchildren, Johanna, Ronald, Heidi, and Shanna.
Visiting hours
will be held Monday, February 2, from 4 to 7 pm at Jones, Rich &
Hutchins Funeral Home, 199 Woodford St. Prayers will be
recited Wednesday at 9:15am at the funeral home followed by a Mass
of Christian Burial at 10 am at St Joseph's Catholic Church.
Interment will follow in New Calvary Cemetery,
Portland.
Newspaper: Press Herald, February
3, 2004
Submitters Name: Mary C Cargile
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HALL,
Hate-Evil
At Falmouth, Mr. Hate-Evil
Hall, AE. 91 years. He has now living 341 children, viz.
13
children---113 grand children----214 children's grand children---1
grand child's grandchild.
65 of the above have been married,
which makes an addition of 65 children by
marriage.
[source:Newspaper: Oriental
Trumpet] Submitters Name: Cindy
(McIntire) Johnson
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Mr. Enoch
McBlenan
In the same place, (Portland Me0
Dec. 13, Mr. Enoch McBlenan, in the 49th year of
his age.
(Source: Newspaper: The Colored American 1841-12-25.
Submitted by a Friend of Free Genealogy)
Mr. David
McIntire
DIED
In Brunswick, suddenly, Mr. David
McIntire, aged 40.
[Source:New-Hampshire
Gazette, Date: 03-01-1831 ]
Submitters Name:
Cindy (McIntire) Johnson
McINTIRE, Mr. and
wife
At Falmouth,
Mr. McIntire and
wife.
Newspaper: Oriental Trumpet,
12-14-1797
Submitters Name: Cindy (McIntire)
Johnson
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Joseph J Sanborn
Date: April 7,
1964
Portland, ME:
Joseph J Sanborn, 64, of 28 James St., a railroad signalman,
died at his home Monday after a short illness.
He was born in
Portland, April 5, 1900, son of Charles A and Catherine Leonard
Sanborn. He attented local school and was a lifelong resident
here.
He was employed by the Maine Central Railroad and had been
a signalman for 19 years. He was a communicant of St Joseph's
Church and a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen.
He served in the Navy in WWI.
Besides his widow, the former Mary
E Guevin, he is survived by two daughters, Sister Mary Josefa, S.SM,
Oahu, Hawaii; and Mrs. Blair (Mary Lou) Higgins, Portland; two sons,
Joseph J Sanborn, Jr., Cornwall, Ont., and Stanley E Sanborn,
Portland; a sister, Mrs. Peter G Phillippe, Portsmouth, NH, 10
grandchildren and four nephews.
The funeral from 172 State St at
8:15 a.m. Thursday will be followed by a Solemn Requiem Mass at 9
a.m. in St Joseph's Church. Interment will be in Calvary
Cemetery
[Submitted by: Mary C Cargile, source:
Press Herald]
Mary E Guevin
Sanborn
Obit: PORTLAND,
ME
Mary E Sanborn, a teacher and community volunteer, of 271
Woodfort St, died Wednesday in a local hospital after a brief
illness. She was 89.
Born in Portland, a daughter of Louis
H and Maud (Bimson) Guevin, she graduated from Cathedral High School
in 1921 and St Joseph's Normal School in 1923.
Mrs. Sanborn began
teaching at St Dominic's Grammar School in Portland right after high
school said her daughter, Eileen Sanborn.
Mrs. Sanborn made a
career of teaching, working as a primary and kindergarten teacher
for the Sisters of Mercy at St Dominic's Cathedral and for 15 years
at St. Patrick's School.
Mrs. Sanborn was a comminicant of St
Joseph's Church. She was a member of St Joseph's Sodality
Council, director of St Joseph's Junion Choir and a member of the
Senior Choir. She was also a member of Cathedral &
Cheverus High School Mothers Club, a volunteer at St Elizabeth's
Home for Children, and a member of the Cathedral Choristers.
She
was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph J Sanborn, Sr. and a
daughter, Mary Lou Higgins. Surviving are two sons, Joseph J
Sanborn, Jr. of Cornwall, Ontario, and Sanley E Sanborn of Sebago
Lake; a daughter, Eileen F Sanborn of Portland, with whom she made
her home; 16 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Prayers
will be recited at 10:15 am Monday in Chapel A of Jones, Rich &
Hutchins Funeral Home, 199 Woodford St., followed by a Funeral Mass
at 11 a.m. at St Joseph's Catholic Church. Burial will be in
Calvary Cemetery in South Portland.
source:Press
Herald,August 27, 1993
submitted by: Mary C
Cargile
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Marguerite B.
Schofield
3-4-96
Marguerite B. Schofield homemaker, worked briefly at
Sylvania SEBAGO LAKE,-
Marguerite B. Schofield, 75, of Route
114 died Monday at a Bridgton health care center. She was born in
Portland, a daughter of William H. Kilton and Annie B. Roberts
Kilton and attended Portland schools. Mrs. Schofield was a homemaker
and had worked briefly at Sylvania in Standish. Her husband, Arthur
F. Schofield, died in 1979.
Surviving are two sons William
L. of Caribou and Thomas A. Schofield of Sebago Lake; a daughter,
Dawn Marie Stephens of Newport, N. C.; two brothers, Milford of
Freeport and Francis Kilton of Ocean Park at Old Orchard Beach; a
sister Muriel Zankofsky of Sanford, Fla. seven grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren.
Services and burial will be in
Carteret Memorial Cemetery, Beaufort, N. C. Local arrangements are
by Dolby and Dorr Funeral chapel.Gorham.
[source: Portland Herald, submitted by: Thomas A.
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Mrs. Ellen Almirah
Scott
Died, at Portland, Me., Nov. 21, Mrs.
Ellen Almirah Scott, in the 36th year of her age. Mrs. Scott had
been a member of the Colored Congregational Church about thirteen
months. She was received into the church by the Rev. A.G. Beman,
while on a visit to this place. In her life she was exemplary and
devoted, commending to all who knew her the beauty and excellency of
religion, - in her death, peaceful and triumphant.
(Source:
Newspaper: The Colored American 1841-12-25. Submitted by a Friend of
Free Genealogy)
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| Mark S.
Whitehouse |
| October 3, 1962 - July 24,
2009 |
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| Birth
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Portland,
Maine |
| Resided
In: |
Manchester,
Connecticut |
| Visitation: |
None |
| Services: |
Saturday, August 8,
2009 Details |
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Mark S.
Whitehouse, 46, of Manchester, son of Carl and Sally Whitehouse of
North Windham, passed away Friday, July 24, 2009 at Manchester
Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. In addition to his parents,
he is survived by a sister Katerry Desrosiers and her husband Andy
and their daughter Katie all of Manchester. He was preceded in
death by his sister, Peggy Whitehouse. A gathering of family and
friends to celebrate his life will be held at his parent’s home, 4
Short Lane, North Windham on August 8, 2009 beginning at 12 noon.
The Potter Funeral Home, Willimantic assisted with
arrangements.
(Source: Submitted by Nancy
Washell)
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