Carole Dvora Spill Cole
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
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,…
Michael Cohen
Michael Lane Cohen passed bravely and peacefully away on March 17 th , 2022 at the Gosnell House in Scarborough, ME surrounded with so much love by his devoted wife, Hedy (Shechman), and adoring children, Elliot and Natalie. Born in 1949 to parents Elenore (Fogel)…
Annette Chason
Annette Edith Ginsburg Chason, age 94, passed away peacefully on March 9, 2022, surrounded by her loving family and friends. She was born on December 4, 1927. Annette grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the 1930s, the daughter of immigrants Israel Ginsburg of Russia, an…
Melvin Lerman
Melvin Samuel Lerman, a Portland, Maine native most recently living in Pembroke Pines, Florida, died after a long illness on February 4, 2022 at age 89. Born in Portland, Maine on September 28, 1932, Mel is survived by his loving sister Barbara (Lerman) Simensky of…
John Richard Paul
John Richard Paul passed away on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at the age of 83. Family, friends and the health care professionals who nurtured and supported him over the years lost a man who had come to represent the gold standard in terms of courage,…
Marilyn Jacobson
Marilyn R. Jacobson, (92) passed away peacefully at home on February 1 ,2022. Marilyn was a lifelong resident of Maine and worked as a telephone operator for New England Telephone until she married Al (Albert) Jacobson. They raised their children in Portland and lived out…
Stanley Pollack
Stanley C. Pollack, the long-time president of G.M. Pollack & Sons Jewelers, died Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, surrounded by his wife, children, and grandchildren. He was 82. The family held a private funeral. Stan was the son of Perle and Gerald Pollack and loved them…
Broda Loeb
Broda May Loeb of Portland, Maine passed away peacefully in her home on January 19, 2022, she was 92 years of age. She was a fun-loving woman who was ahead of her time! Broda was an accomplished electrologist in the Portland area and had a…
Zelda Greenspun
Zelda Greenspun, 99 1/2, died on January 8, 2022 after a brief illness. She was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1922, the daughter of Harry and Millie Ettinger. She attended Lower Merion High School, graduating in 1940, the yearbook acknowledging that “In her small way,…
Myrtle Arnovitz (Myrt) Wolman
Myrtle Arnovitz (Myrt) Wolman, 96, passed away at her home on December 30, surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Sharon, PA, on July 10, 1925, the daughter of Eva and William Arnovitz. She was predeceased by her husband of sixty-seven years, Gordon,…
Katherine Morgan
Katherine Morgan, 77, of Portland, passed away peacefully at home on December 31, 2021, with her daughter, Addis Mason, and husband, Bemnet Damte at her bedside. Katherine had a strong sense of justice and love of life. Her fearlessness, nonconformity, warmth, compassion, kindness, humor, intelligence,…