73842. Morton Harrison Pickering
The Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)January 28, 1992
MORTON H. PICKERING, 69, of Mount Laurel, died Saturday at Kennedy Memorial Hospitals/Stratford Division.
Mr. Pickering was a sales representative for Jos. Riley Co. in Ardmore, Pa. He was a World War II Army veteran.
Survivors: his wife, Alice Smekens Pickering; a son, William of Turnersville; a daughter, Maryanne Vecchio of Haddon Township; seven grandchildren, and a sister- and brother-in-law, Mary and Lester Brooks of Cherry Hill.
George E. Bray was employed as a quarryman at the time of his marriage.
Henry E. Bray at age 31 was a quarryman at the time of his marriage to Ruth Sellers.
Howard E. Haskell at age 21 was a quarryman at the time of his marriage to Christie Mary Carman.
Bangor Daily News (ME)
November 25, 2014DEER ISLE - E. (Edwin) Douglas "Doug" Haskell, 87, of Deer Isle, beloved husband for 63 years of Mary Alice Barbour Haskell, died peacefully Saturday, November 22, 2014, at home with his family at his side. He lived an active, full life to the end.
Doug was born at home in Deer Isle September 18, 1927, the son of Howard E. Haskell and Christie Mae Carman Haskell. He often told stories of growing up with his sister and brother in South Deer Isle and at Long Cove, attending a one-room schoolhouse and living a boyhood of roaming the woods, waterways and villages of his island home. His love of the coast, the outdoors and island living lasted his whole life.
During World War II, Doug's family moved to East Hartford, Connecticut, where his whole family worked in the Pratt and Whitney aircraft factories. He also told of long days working in the tobacco fields of the Connecticut River Valley during those years. Doug graduated from East Hartford High School in 1944.
After the war, the Haskell family returned to Deer Isle, where Doug followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather in maritime trades. Doug worked as a yachtsman on Long Island Sound, N.Y. He also crewed on lobster smacks moving lobsters between Nova Scotia and Montauk, N.Y. He lobstered with Fred Heanssler off Sunshine in Jericho Bay. He also worked for Curtis and Basil Heanssler's lobster businesses and building/ maintaining their lobster pounds. He drove an express truck for Shepard Brothers and delivered granite from the Stonington quarries. He also hand loaded and hauled pulpwood for Barter Lumber Company.
In 1951, he married Mary Alice Barbour. They built a home overlooking Long Cove and raised their children Jane and Scott. Mary Alice taught school while Doug worked numerous jobs. This summer they celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary.
Doug was a skilled wooden boat builder, custom making boats for local lobstermen and small yachts and pleasure craft for summer residents. Over the years he plied his craft building and repairing wooden boats at the Stonington Shipyard on Moose Island, Brooklin Boat Yard, Benjamin River Boat Yard, and lastly at his own boat shop, where he worked with Arno Day. Several times he built lobster boats for himself, which allowed him to take breaks from his boat building to pursue his love of lobstering and being on the water. For decades he fished his traps from South Deer Isle to Sunshine, rising by 4 a.m. to go hauling.
He was named for his grandfather Edwin T. Carman, who was a pilot for the Eastern Steamship Company and was a sailor on the Columbia with its all Deer Isle crew in the 1899 America's Cup races. Doug was a proud member of the International Haskell Family Society.
Doug served his community in many ways. For many years he was a substitute rural letter carrier for Deer Isle Post Office. Doug was a Town of Deer Isle selectman and assessor for several years. He was an officer with the Deer Isle Volunteer Fire Department. Doug also served with the Memorial Ambulance Corps.
He planted large vegetable gardens each year to feed his family. Doug especially was proud of his small orchard of cherry, pear, peach, and apple trees, which still produce prized fruits each year. In recent years he was known for his well-built Adirondack chairs, which are at numerous homes and cottages on the island. The Haskell homes have always been heated with wood, so Doug was often in the woodlot or lower field cutting and splitting firewood for the next winter. Doug was an avid reader and most evenings were spent engrossed in a good book.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Alice Haskell of Deer Isle; daughter, Jane E. Haskell of Bangor; son, Scott D. Haskell and his wife, Nancy Ewing of Bangor; grandchildren, Jason Cowles of Monroe, Sarah Cowles of Koh Tao, Thailand, and Jackson Haskell of Bangor;
his sister, Bertha A. Ott of Greenlawn, N.Y.; many nieces and nephews; a brother-in-law, Chandler Barbour and his wife Nita of Deer Isle. He was predeceased by a grandson, Benjamin Howard Cowles in 1987; and by his brother, Raymond A. Haskell, of Indiana in June.
Bangor Daily News (ME)
May 6, 2023Deer Isle - Mary Alice (Barbour) Haskell, 92, of Deer Isle, Maine, wife of the late E. Douglas Haskell, died April 13, 2023, at Ross Manor in Bangor, Maine, with her family at her side, after living with Alzheimer's Disease for over a decade. She was born in Blue Hill, Maine, December 19, 1930, to Mary Edith (Davis) Barbour and Winfield Montgomery Barbour. According to a college essay she wrote in 1948, she was born "during one of the worst blizzards of the winter."
Mary Alice and her brothers, Chandler Austin Barbour and Winfield Murray Barbour, spent their childhood playing and "growing up fast" during the Depression on "the homestead" bordered by Meadow Brook, where livestock and gardens were tended. Life was filled with fun, numerous adventures and many farm responsibilities. Mary Alice vividly remembered running barefoot with her brothers through the fields, climbing the horse chestnut tree on the front lawn, sharing the family's pet crow and attending fun-filled neighborhood gatherings at "The Oak Vale Clubhouse" in Greenlaw District. Mary Alice shared at her brother's funeral, "On the homestead we learned lessons that served us well through our lifetimes. Among those lessons learned were integrity, responsibility, respect and the value of family."
At the age of 8, Mary Alice's childhood took a tragic turn when her mother died after a sudden illness. Mary, the eldest of the three children, said, "We were a close-knit family." After two years of struggling to maintain "the farm," the family stopped farming and moved to Rockland, where Winfield worked at jobs and the children were taken in by a local family.
In 1942, the family returned to the island and life on the farm now included live-in housekeepers. One treasured housekeeper was Grace Colburn, a wonderful role model who greatly influenced the upbringing of Mary and her brothers. This started a lifelong friendship between the Colburns and Barbours.
According to family stories, Mary first drove a car on the farm before she was 10 and was regularly driving on town roads in her early teens to help the family.
Mary Alice was educated at island schools and graduated in 1948 from Deer Isle High School, called McKinley High School at the time. She then attended Farmington State Teachers' College 1948-1951, returning to the island to start teaching and to marry Doug Haskell, build a home "on the Hill," and start a family. After many years of teaching, she returned full-time to University of Maine at Farmington and earned her degree in Education in 1969.
Mary Alice taught multiple generations of island families over her career. "Slews" of islanders still called her "Mrs. Haskell." And in return, she would proudly introduce someone as "one of my former students."
"I taught (in several island classrooms) for over 33 years, mostly in Stonington," she said in 2019. She started her teaching career at age 20 at Stonington Junior High, resumed at Stonington Elementary in 1960 for nearly two decades and concluded at Deer Isle Elementary. "I was always very happy with my co-teachers. I applied for an opening in Deer Isle when there was a shortage of gasoline (1970s)," she recalled.
Mary Alice and Doug first lived in Stonington, and soon built their home on Deer Isle's Sunshine Road and raised their family there.
She volunteered for years with the Deer Isle Stonington Historical Society and was often found in the archives doing research for others. She and Doug spent countless hours walking and volunteering at Mariners' Memorial Park, where they checked the visitor register daily. Each time she walked to the park, Mary Alice gazed up and down Long Cove, looking and listening for ospreys, and wondering how the clammers did that day.
She was predeceased in 2014 by her husband of 63 years, Edwin Douglas "Doug" Haskell; brother, Murray and his wife, Lois; sister-in-law, Nita Hale Barbour; sister-in-law, Bertha Ott and her husband, Ray; brother-in-law, Raymond A. Haskell; grandson, Benjamin Howard Cowles; daughter-in-law, Robin J. Crabtree; nephews, Dwayne and Randall Barbour; and niece Sheila Freres.
She is survived by children, Jane Haskell of Monroe, Maine, and Scott Haskell and wife, Nancy Ewing, of Bangor; brother, Chandler Barbour of Belfast; grandson, Jason Cowles and wife, Erica Trites; granddaughter, Sarah Cowles and husband, Steven Ashby; grandson, Jackson Haskell; great-grandchildren, Amelia, Emily and Leif Cowles; and Alexis and Samuel Ashby.
73860. Raymond Augustus Haskell
Journal Review (Crawfordsville, IN)
May 30, 2014Raymond Haskell Nov. 23, 1934-May 28, 2014
Raymond Haskell of Crawfordsville passed away Wednesday afternoon in his home at the age of 79.
Ray served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He was a graduate of Deer Isle-Stonington High School in Deer Isle, Maine. He worked as a mechanic for the Chrysler Corporation for 30 years. He also drove a drag race car at the New York National Speedway, where he won several trophies over the years.
Born Nov. 23, 1934, at Deer Isle, Maine, he was the son of Howard E. Haskell and Christine M. Carmen Haskell. He married Carol Durrschmidt on Sept. 20, 1969. She survives.
Additional survivors include: three sons, Michael (Kimberly) Haskell of Crawfordsville, Mike (Marie) Haskell of Florida and Tommy (Terry) Haskell of Florida; daughter Elizabeth (Vincent) Medina of Phoenix, Ariz.; brother Douglas Haskell of Deer Isle; and sister Bertha Ott of Greenlawn, N.Y. He also has several grandchildren; Christian, Cody and Brianna Haskell, Shelby and Marc Medina, Tyler and Ashley Haskell as well as Thomas, Alyssa and Bryan Haskell, and a couple of great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a grandson, Logan Andrew Haskell in 2002.
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U.S. Veterans' Gravesites, ca.1775-2019
Name: Raymond A Haskell
Rank: PFC
Death Age: 79
Birth Date: 23 Nov 1934
Death Date: 28 May 2014
Cemetery: Danville National Cemetery; IL
Branch of Service: US ARMY
Journal Review (Crawfordsville, IN)
November 26, 2022Carol Esther Haskell of Crawfordsville passed away Thursday night, Nov. 24, 2022, at Hickory Creek Nursing Home. She was 75.
Mrs. Haskell loved NASCAR, specifically Kurt Busch, whom she corresponded with regularly, along with members of his team. She served her country in the U.S. Air Force. She also served as a crossing guard in New York, which was part of the police department. She spent much of her time as a stay-at-home mom and she loved her family very much.
Born May 29, 1947, in Queens, New York, she was the daughter of Ralph G. Durrschmidt and Esther Elizabeth Graulig Durrschmidt. She graduated from high school in North Port, New York.
She married Raymond Haskell on Sept. 20, 1969, at North Port, New York. He passed away May 28, 2014.
Surviving family includes: son Michael (Kimberly) Haskell of Crawfordsville; two daughters, Donna (Scott) Spagnoli of North Port, Florida and Elizabeth Medina of Phoenix; three sisters, Nancy, Gail and Janet; three granddaughters and four grandsons.
She was preceded in death by husband Raymond Haskell; parents; two brothers, Rich and Paul Durrschmidt; grandson Logan Haskell; and one son-in-law.
The Enterprise (Brockton, MA)
April 26, 2015EASTHAM-Abrota B."Abby" Anderson, loyal Red Sox fan, a 56 year resident of Eastham, died on April 15, 2015 in the comfort and care of the wonderful staff at Broadreach, Liberty Commons, where she was a happy lady who saw her grandson Rich almost daily for an "I Love You" greeting.
Abby was born on May 12, 1920, the daughter of John and Eula Pratt. She graduated from Brockton Business College in 1939 and married in 1944.
Abby was an accountant for the Land Ho Restaurant in Orleans. She was a daughter, a sister, a step-sister, a step-mom, a mom, a grandmother, a great grandmother, and "GG" to Cameron. She was a bowling team member and a totally loyal Red Sox Fan.
Abby experienced pain and grief when her husband Melvin and six-year-old daughter Laurie drowned, the result of a boating accident on Great Pond in Eastham in 1963.
She is predeceased by adult daughter Marcia Nitzsche and son David, whose respective spouses she remained in contact with throughout her life.
Abby is today being remembered by stepdaughter Joan and her husband Ron of MO, step-daughter Judy and her husband Bob of AZ, son Richard and his wife Kathy of Eastham, friend Donna and her husband Skip also of Eastham.
She is in the thoughts and prayers of all her grandchildren and great-grandchildren with whom she shared her love and smiles.
Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA)
September 5, 2002age 79, Of Eastham, formerly Of West Bridgewater, September 3, 2002. Sister Of Abrota "Abby" Anderson Of Eastham; aunt Of Richard Anderson Of East Harwich, David Anderson Of Benbrook, TX, Joan Coen Of White, GA, Judi Streit Of Portland, OR, and the late Marcia Nitzsche. Also survived by several grandnieces and grandnephews.