Hartford High School Alumni Obituaries

Marguerite Thomas Van Lew Van Demark 87 formerly of Point Pleasant passed away on Friday January 9 2026. Born in Hartford CT to the late Edmund Roy and Florence Thomas she lived in Point Pleasant for over fifty years and was a graduate of Point Pleasant Beach High School. Marguerite worked for Brigg...

Marguerite Thomas Van Lew Van Demark 87 formerly of Point Pleasant passed away on Friday January 9 2026. Born in Hartford CT to the late Edmund Roy and Florence Thomas she lived in Point Pleasant for over fifty years and was a graduate of Point Pleasant Beach High School. Marguerite worked for Brigg...

Marguerite Thomas Van Lew Van Demark 87 formerly of Point Pleasant passed away on Friday January 9 2026. Born in Hartford CT to the late Edmund Roy and Florence Thomas she lived in Point Pleasant for over fifty years and was a graduate of Point Pleasant Beach High School. Marguerite worked for Brigg...

HARPSWELL June Irene Rowland 89 of Harpswell ME died December 31 2018 at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick ME with family by her side. June was born May 18 1929 in Hartford CT the daughter of Robert J. Rowland and Irene Buxton Rowland. She graduated in 1947 from William Hall High School in West Hartf...

AUBURN Raymond Charles Cook 67 passed away peacefully with his family on Wednesday Feb. 11. Ray was the best friend father brother and husband anyone could hope for. A graduate of Lewiston High School and the University of Hartford Ray spent his life working to improve the lives of children teenage...

Topsham ME Patricia Steffens Clark age 97 of Topsham ME and CenterOssipee NH died on April 25 2021 in Topsham ME. Patricia was born inFarmington ME in 1923 to the late Richard and Dorothy Buker Steffens. Pat graduated from Palmer MA High School and Wheaton College NortonMA as a member of the class ...

Hallowell Janet Y. Leinonen passed away peacefully at The Woodlands of Hallowell on January 16 2023. She was born October 8 1942 in Hartford Connecticut to Marie and Kenneth Yudowitch. She graduated from Walter Johnson High School in Rockville MD in 1960. Janet married the love of her life Eino Lein...

Richard Loring Green 85 passed away peacefully Wednesday December 13 2023 at the Maine Veterans Home in Augusta. He was born on August 28 1938 to the late Garnett and Marguerite Peggy OHara Green of Lubec Maine. Richard graduated Lubec High School in 1956. On August 16 1956 he joined the US Navy and...

TOPSHAM Cornelius Edwards Clark Jr. age 95 of Center Ossipee NH and Topsham ME passed away from liver cancer on March 19 2018 at his winter home in Topsham. Known to family friends and colleagues as Neil he was born in 1922 at DoverFoxcroft ME to the late Susie and Cornelius E. Clark Sr. of Portlan...

LEWISTON Ruth M. Gibbert 84 of Turner went to be with her beloved husband of 62 years on Friday Sept. 9. She died suddenly while residing at Russell Park Manor. She was born on May 7 1927 in Turner the daughter of Carlos and Agnes Shaw Gibbert. She graduated from Edward Little High School in 1945 t...

LIVERMORE Nancey Drinkwine 63 of Hartford mother partner friend and confidante passed away suddenly on Friday Sept. 9. She was born June 22 1948 in Boston Mass. the daughter of James and Lillias Dixie Drinkwine. She grew up in Squantum and graduated from North Quincy High School in 1966. Nanceys ca...

2013 Arthur George Hosford Jr. aged 57 passed away unexpectedly at MaineMedical Center in Portland. He was born on July 21 Growingup in Springfield VT Arthur developed a passion for music early in his lifestudying piano and organ with Harriette Slack Richardson. He attended the HarttSchool of Music ...

Verne won the battle over ALS eventually succumbing to cancer. Verne grew up in Auburn Maine and graduated from Edward Little High School in 1971 where he starred in basketball and baseball. After high school Verne married Sandra Hamel. He spent most of his life working for Northeastern Refrigeratio...

Ronald Wayne Pomerleau 74 of West Poland died Tuesday October 3rd 2023 at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston after a period of declining health. He was born January 28th 1949 in Oxford Maine the son of Robert A. and Geraldine Edwards Pomerleau. He was educated in local schools and graduated in...

Debra Anne Gauvin Meinke 71 passed on Monday December 4th 2023 at MidCoast Hospital from a stroke. She was born in Athol MA on August 20 1952 the only daughter and first born to Howard J. and Lorraine A. Duley Gauvin. She attended Becker Jr. College in Worcester MA after high school class of 1970 gr...

In loving memory of Frank Nelson Clifford who passed away unexpectedly at 69 on January 19 2024 while enjoying time snowmobiling with friends in Northern Franklin County. Born on February 15 1954 in Hartford Connecticut to Leonard Sumner Clifford and Ruby Hazel Whitman Clifford Franks journey took h...

Scarborough ME John S Herald Sr 78 passed peacefully on January 4 2020 at the Maine Veterans Home in Scarborough where he resided for the past 5 years. He was born October 7 1941 in Hartford CT to Ralph Herald and Barbara Uskela and join the US Navy right out of high school. He served 22 years achi...

Laura Ruth Laurie LaneReticker was born May 25 1926 in Manchester NH to Stoddard and Estella Hitchcock Lane. In 1929 they moved with Stoddard Lane Jr. Barbara and Mary Dana to Des Moines Iowa where Stoddard Lane was minister of Plymouth Congregational Church until his death a week before Laurie grad...

FalmouthMuriel A. Girardin 86 died on Friday January 25 2019 at Sedgewood Commons after a long and difficult journey with dementia. She was born in Lewiston Maine on December 141932 to Lorenzo and Elmerine Nadeau Potvin thus becoming a member of a large extended family. She grew up in Lewiston and g...

AUBURN Michael Thomas MacDonald 34 of Auburn passed away at the Hospice House of Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice on Friday April 15. He was born in Lewiston Dec. 7 1976 a son to Thomas Jeannette stepmother and Helen mother MacDonald. Mike graduated from Edward Little High School in 1996. Shortly...

BAILEY ISLAND Brian T. Sullivan 73 of Bailey Island Maine formerly of Waterford Connecticut passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by family on December 27 2017. Brian was born in Hartford CT on December 26 1944 the son of John and Teresa Sullivan. He attended Waterford High School. After gr...

E. Lorraine Muller 88 of Brunswick died on October 27 2013 at Thornton Hall. She was born to Guy and Etta Smith on July 3 1925 in Easton Pa. She was predeceased by her husband of 53 years Lt. Commander John G. Muller. Lorraine graduated from Easton high school and soon after began her long life as a...

TOPSHAM Richard Dick Coombs88 passed away on June 5 2025 after a brief stay at Dionne Commons in Brunswick where he made his transition to his heavenly mansion. John 1426 with his loving family by his side. He was born in November 1936 in Bath son of Myron M. Coombs and Florence Dubreuil Coombs. He...

Catherine Isabel Libby Mills of Hallowell Maine died on October 11 2018 at the age of 91. She passed peacefully at home surrounded by her loving family as she had wished. She was born on June 11 1927 in Portland Maine to Ruth Emerson Heiskell and Frank Milton Libby. She is predeceased by her sibling...

Stanley Lamont Pratt 84 a lifelong resident of the Capital City died on November 1 2014 at Eastern Maine Medical Center Grant 1 ICU Bangor from complications of respiratory failure and pneumonia. He had a been a patient there for two weeks. Born in Augusta on July 17 1930 he was the son of Leon Stan...

Freeport Jean Ann Cousinow died in her home in Freeport on August 5 2023 surrounded by loved ones. It may be impossible to render her buoyant essence on the final page. Yet from the outset let this be known Jean was forthright in speech and manner often a rebel with a cause possessed of a determine...

AuburnBeverly B. Murphy 86 of the Berry Rd. Hartford passed away on July 5 2014 at the Hospice House. She was born on March 26 1928 in Hartford the daughter of Raymond and Ethel Berry. She grew up on her parents dairy farm. Bev graduated from Leavitt Institute in Turner. On October 23 1948 she marri...

Ruth A. Gammon Tucker 103 passed peacefully at the Odd Fellows Rebekahs Home of Maine on January 5 2020. She was born in Hartford Maine on May 25 1916 to the late James G. and Ida Benson Gammon. In later years the family moved across the Nezinscot River to the Foggy Valley Farm in East Sumner. She ...

Willa was born in Leeds Maine the daughter of Floyd H. and Lean A. Glidden Hartford. After graduating from Edward Little High School in Auburn she worked at Albany Felt Co. in Monmouth. She worked primarily as an administrative assistant and later as an office manager for Bancroft and Martin Corp. i...

Elizabeth Mary Pennington Betty of Hartford ME passed away peacefully at CMMC in Lewiston with her loving family by her side. Betty was born in Brockton Massachusetts to her parents Ellsworth and Olive Spear. She grew up in Boothbay Harbor ME where she graduated from high school and shortly after go...