Bangor Daily News
August 28, 2010NEWPORT - Peter Friend, 84, passed away Aug. 26, 2010, at his residence. He was born Nov. 24, 1925, in Newport, a son of Norris and Isabel (Cooper) Friend. He graduated from New Hampton (N.H.) Academy, Class of 1943, and graduated from Nichols College, Dudley, Mass. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a nose gunner on a B-24 during World War II. After serving his country and graduating college, Peter joined the family business.
In 1948 he married the former Beverly Perkins and together raised their family in Newport. They were married for 58 years, until her death in 2006.
1964 he founded the motorcycle division of Friend and Friend, Inc., where he worked until the time of his death.
He is survived by a son, Cooper and wife, Meredith Friend, of Ellsworth; a daughter, Anne and husband, Bill Pidgeon, of Milbridge; a brother, Gilman and wife, Donna Friend, of Newport; three grandchildren, Christopher and wife, Terri Hardiman, Megan and husband, Kyle Hildebrand, and Cooper P. Friend; and three great-grandchildren.
Bangor Daily News
December 13, 2010NEWPORT - Gilman N. Friend, 82, passed away Dec. 11, 2010, at his High Street residence. He was born Sept. 23, 1928, at the family home in Newport, a son of Norris and Isabel (Cooper) Friend. He lived out his life at his High Street home, the fourth generation of Friends and Coopers to do so.
Gil attended Newport Elementary School and graduated from New Hampton (N.H.) Academy. He graduated from Bowdoin College, Class of 1951. He attended Tuft's Medical School, Boston, for two years, before deciding that medicine was not for him. He wanted to be a salesman. His first job was delivering and taking orders for beer. He eventually joined the family business, Friend and Friend, selling Ford and Mercury automobiles and managing a Mobil Oil distributorship. In 1968 Gil started and established the Friend and Friend Honda dealership, which is still in existence today. After becoming a licensed realtor he purchased Pine Cone Realty at the triangle in Newport. He felt fortunate to be able to walk through his hometown to his place of business, selling real estate until he was 76.
He married the former Joyce Wilson of Wellesley, Mass. They raised four children together: Nathan lives in New Hampshire with his wife, Judy, and their sons, Justin, Matthew and Adam; Dana lives at Sugarloaf Mountain with his wife, Wendy, and sons, Tucker and Wilson; Tracey Moore lives in South Freeport with husband, Ron, and daughter, Lauren; and Trina lives in Boston.
Gil married his friend Donna later in life. They had a wonderful life together traveling, cooking together, and summers spent at their Lake Wassokeag home filled with kids, cookouts and kayaks.
Gil served many years as moderator for the town of Newport and actively served in Newport Historical Society. He was a longtime notary public and justice of the peace, and delighted in marrying numerous couples. A lifelong Mason, he was a 50-year member of Meridian Splendor Lodge No. 49, a life member of Royal Arch Chapter No. 28, St. John's Commandery, the Scottish Rite, Bangor and Portland, Shrine International, and served as potentate of Anah Shrine in 1976. He served as first chairman of the board of directors of Sebasticook Valley Hospital, Pittsfield, and was one of several area businessmen and women who were instrumental in the hospital's founding. He will be missed by many friends and family, especially Donna, who has lost her greatest companion, friend and love.
The following notes from World Family Tree, Vol. 85, tree 746:
During a visit to Australia, aboard a ship on which he was First Mate, he decided to stay. He 'jumped ship' and during the ship crews search for him he was hidden in a shed by his future brother-in-law, Jack Hurley. He remained in touch with his family, particularly his mother and sister, for whom he was very fond. His mother sent him the money for the fare to return to Boston for a visit with his wife and young family, but he chose instead to spend the money on new clothes for himself and his family. He never returned to America.
He was very proud of his American heritage, but at the same time became a model emigrant to Australia, accepting the culture readily. He pretended to be a Canadian for purposes of getting on the Electoral Roll to vote at elections. He was a strong Labour Party supporter.
The following is a clipping from the Geelong Advertiser - mid 1950's
"GAVE 49 YEARS SERVICE ON THE WHARVES"
The following notes from World Family Tree, Vol. 85, tree 746Mr. Charles Holden, foreman stevedore, was the guest of honour at a gathering at the office of Huddart Parker Limited, Moorabool Street, yesterday afternoon. This marked the retirement of Mr. Holden from his position of permanent foreman with the three interstate shipping agents in Geelong: Huddart Parker Limited, Howard Smith Limited, and R. Purnell Pty. Ltd.
That Mr. Holden was born in Newfoundland (see later note) and spent 11 years in sailing vessels is one of the best-known identities on the Victorian waterfront. Prior to accepting employment with the interstate companies in Geelong, he was a permanent foreman with the Victorian Stevedoring and General Contracting Co. Pty. Ltd. for a long period he also served Messrs E.P. and A. Fraser for a number of years in a similar capacity. Altogether he has spent 49 years on the wharves of Melbourne and Geelong, the greater part of this period having been spent at the latter port.
Mr. R. Peck, manager of Huddart Parker Limited, who acted as chairman, paid tribute to Mr. Holden for the unstinted service and co-operation given to the interstate companies during the 10 years that he has been in their employ, and referred with pleasure to the fact that he would still be available to assist these companies when required. Mr. Peck's remarks were endorsed by Mr. A. E. Pickrell, manager of Howard Smith Limited, Mr. J. Trebilcock, representing R. Purnell Pty. Ltd., J. Fiels, accountant for Huddart Parker Limited and D, Murphy, foreman stevedore. Mr. Peck, acting on behalf of the employers of the three companies concerned, presented Mr. Holden with a wallet of noted. Mr. Holden suitably responded.
Re: Born in Newfoundland.
For purposes of dealing with authorities, he claimed to have been born in Newfoundland as it is in Canada, and being a British country, it gave him the ability to get onto the electoral role in Australia - which he did within several years of his arrival in Australia. All family and friends knew that he was from Deer Isle and Boston.
The following notes from World Family Tree, Vol. 85, tree 746:
Her mother died when she was about two years old. She was placed with family for a while but within the year her father placed her, her older sister, and younger brother into Nazareth House, an orphanage in Ballarat. She remained there, having infrequent visits from her father, until she was 18 years of age. She loved the life in the orphanage, and took every opportunity to return for reunions and to visit with the Sisters of Nazareth who raised her. Upon leaving Nazareth House she found employment as a companion to a Hotel Proprietor's daughter in Geelong. Her sister was then living in Geelong, her younger brother was in the Austin Hospital with tuberculosis. She met and married Charles Holden who was befriended by her brother-in-law. They were married for almost 50 years.
Seattle Daily Times
January 7, 1968Requiem Mass for Mrs. Martha Heyrend, 45, of 3124 Cascadia Ave. S., who died Thursday, will be said at 9 a.m. tomorrow at St Edwards Church. Arrangements are under the direction of the Bonney-Watson Broadway Mortuary.
Born in Hawaii, Mrs. Heyrend came here in 1952. She attended Colby College in New Hampshire and the Dominican College in San Rafael, California. She was a member of the Woman's Medical Auxiliary and was active in work for spastic children.
Surviving are her husband, Dr. Noel B. Heyrend: two daughters, Martha and Suzanne Heyrend, and a son, John Heyrend all of Seattle; her parents Mr. and Mrs. John Watkins, LaJolla, California, and two brothers, John G. Watkins Jr., Los Angeles, California, and Norman Watkins, LaJolla, California.
Seattle Times
March 19, 2006Dr. Noel B. Heyrend passed away March 13, 2006 in Seattle, Washington. He was born on February 19, 1915 in Logan, Utah to Anna Benson Heyrend and Wilford W. Heyrend.
The family subsequently moved to Rigby, Idaho where he spent his childhood. He received his BS Degree from Utah State University. Following this he obtained a teaching fellowship at the University of Illinois where he earned his Masters degree and was pursuing his PhD when called into the US Military in 1941. He rose rapidly through the non-commissioned ranks to technical sergeant. In the fall of 1942 he entered anti-aircraft arterially Officers' Candidate School. Upon graduation he was sent to an anti-aircraft arterially brigade headquarters where he served for two years in WWII. When the air war ended in Europe in 1944, he was sent to the South Pacific, New Guinea and Luzon in the Philippines. At the war's end he was a Captain in command of an anti-aircraft battery. He returned to the United States and entered the University of Chicago Medical School, graduating with his MD Degree in 1950. After completing internship and residency training he practiced medicine in Seattle, WA for 30 years. He was Board Certified in Family Practice. Dr. Heyrend married Jeanne Pike Korsmo in 1981. He was a member of the University Masonic Lodge and the Nile Temple Shrine.
He is survived by his wife, Jeanne Pike Heyrend; his son, John Heyrend; two daughters, Martha Anderson and Suzanne Braun; granddaughter, Jamie Braun; and stepdaughters, Sheila Richardson. His sister, Ann Pinnock of South Jordan, Utah, also survives him.
45847. John Graves Watkins Jr.
The Garden Island (Lihue, HI)
January 27, 2000John Graves Watkins, Jr. (Kuaina) died on Jan. 12, 2000 in San Juan Capistrano,
Calif. He was born in Hilo in 1923, graduated from Punahou in 1942 and Harvard in 1946. He was formerly of Kalaheo where his father was manager of Kaua'i Pine until 1957. His mother founded the Kaua'i Humane Society in 1942.
He is survived by his wife of 50 years: Virginia, (Beji) Burks, Daughter: Lisa and son-in-law: William Lilles of Springfield, Ore., two sons: John Graves III and Robert Burks. Also surviving is his brother: H. Norman Watkins of La Jolla and two grandchildren, Elena and Nikos Lilles.
Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society, Vol 2 # 4, Page 9
Irene Haskell Ferris, aged 104, died 5 May 1993, at the Penobscot Nursing Home, Maine. USA. Born Deer Isle, Maine 27 April 1889, daughter of Captain Caleb A. and Rose Eaton Haskell she was a 1906 graduate of Deer Isle McKinley High School. She resided for many years in Massachusetts until the death of her husband, Beverly Ferris in 1972, when she returned to the old Haskell Homestead on Deer Isle to live with her sisters.
She is survived by sister Dorothy Haskell of Deer Isle and nephew John Stanton Brock.