Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Families in Portland, ME
Serving Portland, Maine
David Richard Holmes
Dec 4, 2020
Falmouth, Maine-David Richard Holmes passed away Friday, December 4, 2020 at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. He was born August 10, 1940 in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of the late John Rulon Holmes and Evelyn Nadine (Schettler) Holmes. Dave was a graduate of San Gabriel (California) High School, Stanford University and earned an MBA from Northwestern University. ...
Shirley E. Caiazzo
Nov 30, 2020
Shirley E. Caiazzo, 86, of Portland died Monday November 30, 2020, with her family by her side. Born in Portland, she is a daughter of Arthur and Edna (Chandler) Scott. She was a member of the Good Samaritan Club, The Woodfords Club and The Lioness Club, where she served as President. Shirley enjoyed bowling, cooking and traveling with her husband...
Timothy Allen Black
Nov 30, 2020
Westbrook-Timothy Allen Black left this world on Nov 30, 2020 after being attacked by a ladder - or maybe not - we all know how he loved a good story. A few of his favorites involved living in San Francisco, biking thru Florida, working at the bike shop in Brunswick, camping adventures in Maine and beyond with his family, being...
M. Kathryn Duston
Nov 29, 2020
Falmouth-Kathryn Duston, 92, passed away peacefully on November 29, 2020 at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough. She was born on November 14, 1928 in Winthrop Massachusetts the daughter of Alfred and Mary (Tierney) Mortimer. She attended Endicott College. Kathryn married and lived in Virginia raising her two children Jeff who was an architectural historian who wrote two books...
Douglas Ray Lewis,Jr.
Nov 26, 2020
Douglas R. Lewis, Jr. passed away peacefully on Thursday, November 26, 2020 in Scarborough, Maine with his wife Adelaide and family members by his side. He was 90 years old. The son of Irish and Canadian immigrants, Doug was born to Hester Mary O'Sullivan and Douglas Ray Lewis, Sr. on July 12, 1930 in Boston, MA. When Doug was ten...
Lucretia Leo
Nov 26, 2020
Lucretia Leo, 66, of Portland, passed away on Thursday November 26, 2020 after a sudden and arduous battle with leukemia (AML) with her family by her side. Born in Portland on September 18, 1954, she was a daughter of Michael J and Antionette (Minervino) Nappi. She graduated from Portland High School the Class of 1973. She went on to work...
Joyce May Slocum
Nov 22, 2020
Portland-Joyce M. Slocum passed away at the Hospice House of Androscoggin Home Care & Hospice in Auburn on November 22, 2020 after a brief illness. She was born in Portland, Maine a daughter of Clara (Donovan) and Clifford Hamilton,Sr. She attended schools in Portland and Falmouth. Joyce married Raymond A. Nilsen in 1948, they had two children together and lived...
Josephine C. Manzo
Nov 20, 2020
Josephine C. (Fornisano) Manzo, 96, passed away on November 20, 2020 at the Cedars Nursing Facility in Portland. She leaves behind her daughter Rosemary (Manzo) Beattie of Scarborough, Grandson James Beattie and his wife Erin and great granddaughter Leah of Cochranville, PA. She is also survived by her sisters Mary Lapomarda, Madeline Fornisano and Theresa Cockrell. As well as her...
Joseph (Joe) Michael Sabatino
Nov 20, 2020
Portland- Joseph (Joe) Michael Sabatino, 48, died unexpectedly at his home on Friday, November 20, 2020. Joe was born in 1972 in Portland and grew up in Windham. He attended local schools and graduated from Windham High School in 1992. When he was young he loved living in the country, riding bikes with friends with no traffic to worry about,...
Olga Hasiotis
Nov 14, 2020
Olga Hasiotis passed away peacefully on November 14, 2020 at the age of 93 after a long, age-related decline. She lived a full life in the company of many loving neighbors, friends and family. On the day following her passing the church bells in her native village in Greece rang-out in her memory. Born February 10, 1927 in Vasilikon, Epirus,...
James F. Thompson
Nov 13, 2020
James F. Thompson, III., 58, of Yarmouth died unexpectedly on November 13, 2020. Born in Oxford, England, he is a son of Clifford F. and Judith A. (Phillips) Thompson. James graduated from the University of Idaho and attended the University of Hawaii. For over 30 years he was a commercial painter with Logan Paint. He embraced new interests and learned...
Colin W. Bailey
Nov 11, 2020
Colin W. Bailey, 63, of South Portland, died Wednesday November 11, 2020 at his home, surrounded by his family. Born in Portland, he is a son of Edward and Fay (St. Pierre) Bailey. He attended South Portland Schools and graduated from South Portland High School the Class of 1975. Colin worked in the shipping and receiving department at Hannaford for...
Charles (Chuck) B. Bonetti
Nov 7, 2020
Charles (Chuck) Brian Bonetti, 90 Charles Brian Bonetti, 90 passed away peacefully in his home on November 7, 2020 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. He was born July 1, 1930 in Pittsfield, MA, the son of Helen Mathes and Charles Delorey and raised by his adopted father John Bonetti. Mr. Bonetti served in the United States Navy until...
Fred Roland Cornish
Nov 6, 2020
In Loving Memory of Portland-Fred Roland Cornish, died November 6, 2020, at the age of 81. He was born and raised in Portland ME, on June 11, 1939, a loving father, friend, grandfather, great grandfather, and a loving partner of many years to Beatrice Butts (Bea). Surviving direct family, daughter, Diana M Tinkham, grandchildren; David Cornish, Bryan Cornish, Alysha Tinkham,...
Donald Gilbert Knight
Nov 6, 2020
Donald Gilbert Knight of 158 North Street, Portland, Maine, passed away on November 06, 2020, with his loving family by his side. Don was born in Camden, Maine, the youngest of six children of Harvey Niven Knight and Annie Gillis Knight. His father was from Lincolnville, Maine, and his mother was from Newfoundland, Canada. Don attended schools in Camden and...
Henry L. Thibodeau
Nov 3, 2020
Henry L. Thibodeau, 96, born November 2nd, 1924 in the Allagash Maine Wilderness Region (St. Frances, Maine), son of Phillip Thibodeau and Elodie Dufour, passed away peacefully at his own home surrounded by his loving family on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. In 1954 Henry married the love of his life Joan D. Bowley of Gurnet, Maine. He and his predeceased...
Dr. Clarence Leighton Philbrick Jr.
Nov 2, 2020
Cumberland- Dr. C. Leighton "Leight" Philbrick, Jr, died peacefully in his home on November 2, 2020 at the age of 88. He was born in Gardiner, on October 8, 1932 to Clarence L. Philbrick and Mabel (Dill) Philbrick. Leight had three older sisters Barbara Philbrick Mertz, Joyce Philbrick Flood and Jayne Philbrick Davis. He graduated from Cony High School in...
Ruth Marion Mead
Oct 31, 2020
Marion (Gordon) Mead, 89, of Endicott NY, passed away in a South Portland Maine nursing home on October 31st. Ruth was born November 25, 1931, in Gilboa New York. She graduated from Cherry Valley Central High School in 1949, and went on to attend nursing school at Crouse-Irving Hospital in Syracuse, where she studied from 1950- 1952. In 1952, Ruth...
Edward F. Curran
Oct 31, 2020
Edward F. Curran died peacefully at the home of his daughter Colleen Boswell and her husband John on Saturday, October 31, 2020. He was surrounded by his family who loved him very much. Ed was born and raised in Newport, RI. After serving in the Air Force, he started his career as an Air Traffic Controller in Boston at Logan....
Paul Samuel Koenig
Oct 30, 2020
Sabattus-On Friday, October 30, 2020, Paul Samuel Koenig, 63, died unexpectedly. He was born in Portland, Maine, to the late John and Dorothy (Pelton) Koenig on May 10, 1957. He leaves his beloved fiancé Cecile Goslin of Lisbon Falls and her four children Melissa and her son Ethan, Chelsea and her husband Daniel and their children Danny and Harper, Joshua...



