Obituaries

Maynard Gorden

Maynard Gorden

Mar 27, 2015

Bangor – Maynard Edmund Gorden, 86, passed away March 27, 2015, at a Bangor healthcare facility. He was born July 14, 1928, in East Readfield the son of the late Harmon and Dorothy (Kierstead) Gorden. Maynard attended the Newport Church of God and Glad Tidings Church in Bangor. He spent his early years in farming, then at Globe Albany and...

Edward Scovil

Edward Scovil

Mar 27, 2015

Edward C. Scovil, 74, passed away on March 27, 2015, at the Kennebunk Center for Care and Rehabilitation following a lengthy illness with COPD and Glioblastoma brain cancer. He was born at home in Bangor April 5, 1940, the son of Donald C. and Jesse V. (Betts) Scovil. Ed attended Bangor schools where he graduated from Bangor High School with...

Alice Libbey

Alice Libbey

Mar 27, 2015

Alice Virginia (Keirstead) Libbey, 89, died on March 27, 2015. She was born on October 13, 1925 in Nashua, New Hampshire to Roy N. Keirstead and Ethel Edna Gamblin of New Brunswick, Canada. Alice was a graduate of the University of Maine and served as a Registered Nurse at Eastern Maine General Hospital. She was also a flight attendant for...

James Mcdonald

James Mcdonald

Mar 26, 2015

BANGOR – James Francis McDonald, 93, died March 26, 2015 at the Maine Veterans’ Home in Bangor. He was born April 22, 1922 in Bangor, son of Charles and Mary (Towle) McDonald. James was a U.S. Army Veteran of WWII. He had been employed by the Bangor Fire Dept. four 24 years and enjoyed horse racing, fishing, camping, gardening and...

James Mooney

James Mooney

Mar 26, 2015

SUMMERFIELD, FL AND HAMPDEN - James Joseph Mooney, 89, passed away from pancreatic cancer on March 26, 2015, at a Summerfield Fla. healthcare facility. He was born March 23, 1926, in Brewer, the son of John and Mary (Cox) Mooney. James was a lifelong resident of Hampden and a communicant of St. Matthews’s church in Hampden. He was a graduate...

Florence Moores

Florence Moores

Mar 25, 2015

BANGOR, BEECH HILL POND and HERMON – Florence P. Moores, beloved wife of the late Desmond L. Moores, passed away March 24, 2015. She was born June 9, 1929 in Orono, the fourth of five daughters to Chester S. and Ivy (Foster) Page. Florence graduated from Limestone High School in 1947 and attended Husson College for two years until she...

Sharon Wilcox

Sharon Wilcox

Mar 23, 2015

Sharon Ellen Wilcox, 66, passed away unexpectedly March 23, 2015 in a Lakeland, FL hospital. She was born March 25, 1948 in Bangor, the daughter of John and Eleanor (Whinnery) Bell. Sharon graduated from Higgins Classical Institute, class of 1966. On December 19, 1969 she married Richard Wilcox. Together they raised their family in Kenduskeag. After her children were grown...

Jason Teifert

Jason Teifert

Mar 22, 2015

Jason Lee “Teif” Teifert, 21, died tragically in a snowmobile accident on March 22, 2015, in Hermon. He was born June 23, 1993, in Rapid City, South Dakota, the son of Norbert “Sonny” Teifert of Ketchikan, AK and Claudia (Dumont) Teifert of Hermon. Teif loved to hunt and fish and spend time outdoors with his friends. Teif had a unique...

Rudolph Hikel

Rudolph Hikel

Mar 21, 2015

Rudolph Jerome Hikel died peacefully in his residence at Dirigo Pines in Orono, after a brave struggle with pulmonary fibrosis. Rudy was born on June 2, 1926, in Waterville, Maine, to Tutla Corey Hikel and John Hikel. Rudy and his family were raised in the lively ‘Head of Falls’ mill-workers’ neighborhood near the Kennebec River. Rudy enlisted in the Air...

Jeremiah Gorman

Jeremiah Gorman

Mar 21, 2015

BANGOR - Jeremiah John Gorman, 35, died unexpectedly, March 21, 2015. He was born August 25, 1979, in Livingston, NJ, the son of James and Patrice (Clark) Gorman. He was loved and will be greatly missed. In addition to his parents Jeremiah is survived by his devoted wife, Jamie Ballinger; his beloved son, Finnian James Gorman; two brothers, Timothy Gorman...