Obituaries

 

Marjorie Shorr Sandler

August 18, 2022
Portland, ME

Marjorie Rachel (Shorr) Sandler passed away on August 18, 2022. Born December 8, 1941 in Boston, Marjorie was the daughter of Bernice (Simon) Shorr and Morris Shorr.  She attended Woonsocket High School in Rhode Island, and graduated from Boston University.  After graduation she worked as…

Mary Connell Briggs

July 19, 2022
North Berwick, ME

Mary Connell Briggs, 76, of North Berwick, Maine passed away peacefully on July 19, 2022, after a lengthy illness.  She was born in Camden in 1945, from a Maine native mother, Marie Young Connell and a Boston native William B. Connell.  She was preceded in…

Charlotte Farber

July 18, 2022
Portland, Maine

Charlotte Zimmerman Farber died peacefully on Monday July 18th, just a few months shy of her 100th birthday. Charlotte was the last surviving sibling of the Monument Street Zimmerman clan of six children (siblings included Abraham, Rosaline, Lillian, Violet and Dorothy).  Charlotte attended Portland High…

Edward Eisenstadt

July 8, 2022
Scarborough, Maine

Edward L. Eisenstadt, 76, of Wells, ME passed away Friday, July 8, 2022, from a long battle of illnesses at Hospice of Southern Maine – The Gosnell House, with family at his side. Born in Newark, NJ on April 16, 1946, the son of Arthur…

Gladys (Shiro) Adelson

June 6, 2022
Portland, Maine

Gladys M. (Shiro) Adelson, 100, passed away peacefully on June 6, 2022.  Gladys was born in Newton, Massachusetts on December 20, 1921, to Louis and Celia (Wasser) Shiro.  At a very young age her family moved to Waterville, Maine, where she was raised along with…

Howard Pedlikin

May 28, 2022
Portland, Maine

Howard Pedlikin was born May 12, 1939, in Providence, Rhode Island, and passed away May 28, 2022.  He was the son of Irving and Sophie Pedlikin.  He served in the United States Airforce at Little Rock Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama, Denver, Colorado, Hanscom Air…

Evelyn Lane

April 20, 2022
Auburn, Maine

Evelyn Lane, nee Muskin, died April 20, 2022, age 94.  Burial at 1pm, April 24, Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY.  Born in Brooklyn, 1928.  Cornell, 1948, BA.  1950’s social worker for Connecticut Child Welfare Department.  Loving wife and mother, active in PTA, Girl Scouts and politics…

Carole Dvora Spill Cole

March 25, 2022
Needham, Massachusetts

Carole Dvora Spill Cole of Needham, MA died on March 25th, following a long, tortuous course of Parkinson’s Disease. The daughter of Judge Simon Spill and Esther (Eppie) Finkelman Spill, Carole was born and raised in Biddeford Maine along with her younger sister, Linda.  She…

Deborah Petrovsky

March 25, 2022
Scarborough, Maine

Deborah Ruth Petrovsky, passed away peacefully on March 25, 2022 as the sun was setting, the day after her 59th birthday, after receiving a diagnosis of ALS in 2019. Debbie was born in 1963 in Portland to Miriam and Irving Remar, and beloved big sister,…