81894. Mertland Franklin Steer
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: Mertland F Steer
Birth Year: 1918
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Maine
State of Residence: Maine
County or City: Lincoln
Enlistment Date: 10 Jun 1942
Enlistment State: Maine
Enlistment City: Portland
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 1 year of college
Civil Occupation: Architects
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 68
Weight: 145
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Portland Press Herald (ME)
March 3, 1995Mertland F. Steer, 76, formerly of Vernon, Conn., died here Feb. 17.
He was a son of Herbert and Marion Thompson Steer.
For 40 years, Mr. Steer resided in Portland, Maine, and later moved to Vernon. He recently moved here.
Surviving are his wife, Lynn S. Steer; three daughters, Brenda Michaud of Rockland, Maine, Pamela Dickey of Vernon and Claudia Fossett of Tolland, Conn.; a son, Franklin of Windham, Maine; a stepson, Neal Skinner of Cottondale, Ala.; two sisters, Thelma Calloway of Silsbee, Texas, and Bethiah Callahan of Round Pond, Maine; a brother, Harold of Walpole, Maine; 11 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
81895. Harold Edward Steer Sr.
Portland Press Herald (ME)
March 25, 1995Harold E. Steer, 74, of Walpole died Friday at Miles Memorial Hospital, Damariscotta.
He was born in Bristol, a son of Herbert and Marion Thompson Steer, attended Bristol schools and graduated from Bristol High School in 1937.
For several years, Mr. Steer worked at the South Portland shipyards, until entering the Army. He served during World War II in Europe, and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He also served in the Pacific and was discharged in 1946.
For many years, he drove trucks for several contracting companies. After retiring, he and his wife operated Damariscotta River Campground until his illness.
In 1967, a son, John, was killed in Vietnam.
Surviving are his wife, Martha Little Steer; two sons, Harold A. and Roger E., both in New Hampshire; two sisters, Thelma Calloway of Texas and Bethiah Callahan of Round Pond; and six grandchildren.
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Martha E. Steer, 89, of Walpole, passed away at the home of her son in Plaistow, N.H. on the morning of Sept. 7. Born in Damariscotta, on Feb. 13, 1922, she was the daughter of Samuel and Mildred (Bryant) Little.
Martha grew up here and attended local schools, graduating from Lincoln Academy. She went on to further her studies at the Westbrook Junior College. She married the late Harold Steer in 1943. For many years, Martha worked for Sylvania, starting in Exeter, N.H. and eventually returning to the area to work at their Waldoboro location. After retiring, she and her husband operated the Damariscotta River Campground. Martha continued to run the campground even after her husband's passing in 1995.
Besides her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, Harold E. Steer in 1995; as well as their son, John, who was killed in the line of duty during the Vietnam War in 1967.
She is survived by her sons, Harold A. Steer and wife Carol-Ann of Walpole and Roger Steer and wife Carolyn of Plaistow, N.H.; sister-in-law, Bethiah Callahan of Round Pond; 10 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; as well as two nephews and one niece.
Bangor Daily News (ME)
March 12, 2014WALDOBORO - Waite Wadsworth Weston, 73, a life-long resident of Waldoboro, passed away peacefully at his home March 8, 2014. Born on Sept. 5, 1940, in Portland, he was the only son of the late Kenneth K. Weston and late Rose D. Weston of Waldoboro.
Waite grew up in town and graduated from Waldoboro High School in 1958. He attended The University of Maine at Orono, graduating in 1962 with a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering. At UMO, he joined the Navy ROTC and was a fraternity member of the Delta Tau Delta chapter. After completing OCS, he served on the destroyers USS Beatty and the USS Gearing stationed out of Newport, R.I. Ultimately, he obtained the rank of Lieutenant JG before receiving an Honorable Discharge from the Navy. He married Mary W. (Woodward) Weston of Walpole in October of 1962. They were happily married for 44 years.
In 1966, he returned to Waldoboro to settle down and start a family. Waite and Mary have three children, Timothy S. Weston of Waterville, Thomas C. Weston of Philadelphia, and Tiffany A. Weston of Philadelphia.
Waite joined his father, Ken Weston, in ownership of the family hardware business, S.H. Weston & Sons in downtown Waldoboro. The business had been started by Waite's grandfather, Samuel Weston, in 1922 with his sons, Kenneth and Lawrence eventually joining the operation. For many years, Waite and Mary were fixtures in running the family business, especially after moving the store to the Route 1 location in 1978 and re-naming it Weston's Hardware. They ran the store until their retirement in 2002. The store closed after an 80-year run. Waite was an exceptionally hard worker and devoted family man. Waite enjoyed landscaping, boating, sporting events, class reunions, spending time with his grandchildren, extended family, friends and beloved dog. He served as a M.S.A.D. 40 school-board member, member of the American Legion, Certified Master Plumber, past president of the New England Hardware Dealer's Association in 1990, on the Board of Directors of the Waldoboro Savings and Loan, past president of the Board of Directors at the Waldoboro Bank, and recently, Treasurer of the German Protestant Society in Waldoboro.
Waite was predeceased by his wife, Mary W. Weston in May 2006. He is survived by his loving family, Wayne and Genie Cole (Woodward), Karin R. Weston wife of Timothy; granddaughters, Abigail S. Weston and Sofie A. Weston; Wilhelm and Ilse Pfander, David B. Hitt, Karol Hitt-Rowan, Rob and Beth Cole, cousins, extended family, and friends.
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Joan Elizabeth Weston, 87, of Bremen, passed away on Feb. 25, at her home in Bremen. She was born June 21, 1917 in Waldoboro, the daughter of Victor V. Burnheimer, Sr. and Sarah Groton Burnheimer.
She graduated from Kents Hill at age 13, and from Bates College. Later she attended Duke University. She left teaching to run her father's business, Burnheimer's Grain, with her brother Victor. She was a member of the Eastern Star, the Waldoboro Women's Club, and many other local organizations. Joan was a life long learner, avid reader and bridge player.
She loved being with her husband of 62 years, Phil Weston, who died in 2003. They enjoyed traveling, boating and gardening together.
Joan was a wonderful and loving mother and wife and will be missed by her friends and family. She is survived by her daughter, Anne Seifert and her husband, Sigbert of Bremen, and by her brother, Victor V. Burnheimer, Jr. of Waldoboro.
Portland Press Herald (ME)
October 10, 1995Walter Woodman Wright, 80, died Saturday at his home here after a long illness.
He was born in Cambridge, Mass., son of Prof. C.H.C. Wright and Elizabeth Woodman Wright. He graduated from Harvard College in 1937 and from Columbia University School of Library Science in 1938.
On Nov. 16, 1941, he married Aagot C. Horn in Cambridge, Mass.
After working in the Harvard College library, Mr. Wright held professional positions in the New York Public Library, the library of the Harvard Club of New York, the Johns Hopkins University Library, the University of Pennsylvania Library, where he was an assistant librarian, and at Ohio University in Athens, where he was director of libraries and assistant professor of library science.
There he directed the design and furnishings of a new seven-story library building before returning to New England in 1968. Mr. Wright then became curator of rare books and chief of special collections at Dartmouth College until his retirement in 1980.
He spent summers at the longtime family home at Paris Hill.
Mr. Wright held numerous officer and committee assignments and contributed to professional and other publications. He acquired an extensive collection of books on New England railroads and local history, especially the White Mountains, and he enjoyed visits by scholars engaged in research. Other collecting interests included the authors Noah Brooks, Samuel McCord Crothers and C.A. Stephens, and the family archives, including the writings of members of his family.
In Ohio he was among the founders of the Unitarian Fellowship of Athens, the Athens Memorial Society and the Athens County Historical Society. In New Hampshire he was a member of the Committee for a New England Bibliography and served on the New Hampshire Historical Records Advisory Board. From 1981 to 1984 he was president of the Lebanon Historical Society and belonged to several other state and local historical societies.
For many years he was active in the Paris Cape Historical Society.
He was a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club, the Appalachian Trail Conference, the Nature Conservancy and the Mount Washington Observatory. His gift of extensive portions of his White Mountain collection in 1989 was a significant consideration in the Mount Washington Observatory's plans for an educational, research and administrative facility in the glen at the base of the mountain.
Mr. Wright was a member of Unitarian-Universalist churches in Cambridge, Mass., and South Paris and Brunswick. He was also a member of the Memorial Society of Maine.
Surviving, besides his wife, are a daughter, Caroline W. Kuhl of Lakewood, Ohio; a son, Eric E. of Brunswick; two brothers, C. Conrad of Cambridge and Brooks of Rhinebeck, N.Y.; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930 - 2015
Name of Deceased: C. Conrad Wright
Gender: Male
Death Date: 17 Feb 2011
Obituary Date: 19 Feb 2011
Spouse's Name: Elizabeth Hilgendorff Wright
Childrens' Names:Conrad E. and his wife Mary of Medford, Nielson Wright of VA, and Elizabeth L. Wright and her husband Johnathan Seiger of MD. Also
The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA)
May 26, 2005WILLIAMSTOWN -- Brooks Wright, 82, of Sweetwood Retirement Community died Tuesday at home after a long illness.
Born in Cambridge on Oct. 14, 1922, son of Charles H.C. and Elizabeth L. Woodman Wright, he graduated with honors from Harvard College in 1943 and received his doctorate in English from Harvard in 1950.
An Army Air Forces veteran of World War II, he served in the China-Burma-India theater as a sergeant and cryptographic technician. His unit received a Distinguished Unit Citation.
Mr. Wright taught Asian literature at the City College of New York from 1950 to 1985. He also wrote several books.
He leaves his wife of 50 years, the former Mary Elizabeth Rankin; a son, Aldrich Wright of New York City; two daughters, Anne Wright of Albuquerque, N.M., and Martha Wright of Worcester; a brother, C. Conrad Wright of Cambridge, and four grandchildren.
Survivors include four grandchildren, Charles Jacob Wright, Noah Paul Wright, Jennifer Elizabeth Johnson and Kimberly Caitlyn Johnson.
Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA)
October 10, 2010HANOVER, N.H. Ruth Ebling, 95, of Hanover, N.H., died Oct. 3, 2010.
She was a loving mother and grandmother, accomplished cook, library organizer, volunteer, and wife of William F. Ebling for 60 years.
Born Oct. 16, 1914, in Montclair, N.J., she graduated from the Master's School in Yonkers and then from Vassar College in 1936. Following college, she worked as an editorial assistant and librarian for the renowned psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg.
She raised a family of four children in West Hartford, Conn., and served Vassar College, the Universalist Church and her children's schools in various volunteer posts.
Later, she worked as the librarian for the Institute of Living, a psychiatric hospital in Hartford, Conn. She worked as a fundraiser and manager on large capital campaigns for Hartford's Watkinson School and Hartford Easter Seals.
Retiring in 1976, she and Will settled in the place they loved most, Cotuit, Mass. There she co-authored an acclaimed oyster cookbook, researching all its recipes and earning high praise from the New York Times food critic and others.
Avid hikers, Ruth and Will climbed all 48 of the White Mountains' 4,000-footers. She enjoyed sewing, crocheting and archiving family history. She loved jigsaw and crossword puzzles, golf, sailing and bridge.
In 1991, Ruth and Will retired again to the Kendal at Hanover. There she was instrumental in setting up the Kendal library and overseeing its growth. She ran the annual book sale and assisted Alzheimer's patients. Those who knew her remember Ruth for her humility, steady kindness and cheerful patience.
Ruth is survived by two daughters, Laura Ebling and Susan Happ, both of Sheffield, Mass.; two sons, David and his wife Louise of Guilford, Conn., and Peter of Bloomfield, N.J.; two sisters, Edith Gieg and Faith Mattison, both of Hanover, N.H.; eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
The Barnstable Patriot (MA)
July 24, 2009Stow -- Joseph Mattison, 91, of Chestnut Hill and Osterville, died July 15, 2009, in Stow at the home of his son, Peter.
He was born in Montclair, N.J., and raised in New York. He attended the Loomis School in Windsor, CT, and graduated Harvard College in 1939. In 1941, he and Elizabeth "Beth" Moir married in Chestnut Hill, where they lived for 56 years.
When World War II came along, Mr. Mattison joined the Army, serving as an infantry first lieutenant in the European Theater. During night action in Germany, he led a column of volunteers on foot across open fields to re-supply front line troops pinned down by heavy German fire. In recognition, he was awarded the Silver Star.
As a boy, he spent summers at the Mattison family cottage in Cotuit. There he learned to sail in the quaint and cranky Cotuit skiff. Soon after he and Beth married, they moved to Osterville and took up sailing the equally quaint but more refined Wianno Senior sloop. A skilled helmsman and tactician, he regularly "brought home the silver." For many years, with his family, he cruised and raced his yacht "Kypris" in the waters of New England, around Nova Scotia, and to Bermuda.
An investment broker, Mr. Mattison was for 60 years a familiar face in Boston's financial district, where his tall, lanky frame was easily recognizable hurrying down State Street.
He started his career in 1945 at Estabrook & Co. next to the Old State House, rising to president of the firm by the time it merged with Moseley some 30 years later. He later worked at several other firms - always preferring those with strong local ties - retiring from Moors & Cabot in 2007. On the Street, he was known for his honesty, good sense, quiet demeanor, quick wit and charitable nature. He seldom said an unkind word about anyone, unless they truly deserved it.
Mr. Mattison was involved with several charities and non-profits. In 1964, he collaborated with his friend, Elliot Richardson, (later Massachusetts and U.S. Attorney General) to campaign for the United Fund. Together they helped the Fund break the $10,000,000 mark for the first time. He also served on the board of what has become the United South End Settlements, and was a trustee of The Dexter School for many years.
He is survived by his children, Mary M. Wells of Osterville, Peter D. Mattison of Stow, Deborah M. Angotti of Westport, CT, and Bruce M. Mattison of Osterville, as well as nine grandchildren. His sisters, Ruth Ebling, Edith Gieg, and Faith Mattison of New Hampshire also survive him. His wife, Beth Mattison, and his eldest son, Joseph "Jeff" Mattison III, predeceased him.
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
October 14, 2013Anthony S. Felsovanyi M.D. M.A.C.P. December 20 1914 - October 7 2013
Dr. Felsovanyi served his community as a beloved physician a revered clinical professor a profoundly compassionate human being and devoted friend for over 65 years. From his early medical training at Johns Hopkins Yale service as Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service then in 1946 as the first Fellow in Cardiology at Stanford until his death his practice exemplified the highest standard of medical excellence integrity and compassion.
81913. David Locke Webster III
The Seattle Times (WA)
July 18, 2005David Webster III logged 31,000 hours as a pilot
It has been decades since the Webster clan sat around watching 16-mm homemade films of patriarch David L. Webster III as a youngster frolicking in the buff on an out-of-the-way beach.
It was a pastime he never really outgrew.
"If a beach was deserted, he and my mom would be out there naked, cooking hot dogs. That was just part of his personality," said his son, David Webster IV of Issaquah, the youngest and only son among the four children Mr. Webster had with his first wife, Tru.
For the Webster family, memories of Mr. Webster's antics mesh with the memories of his accomplishments.
"His life was really mostly about flying," said his son. As a commercial pilot for more than a half-century, he logged 31,000 hours in the air, piloting 100 different aircraft. "For him, the best part was he had fun doing it all," said his son.
Mr. Webster flew floatplanes and helicopters for a charter service after 35 years as a pilot with Pan American World Airways. He died Thursday (July 14) at a Mercer Island nursing home, Covenant Shores.
A Mercer Island resident since 1950, he had been in the facility about four weeks, after breaking his leg in a fall at his home. He was 88.
Mr. Webster grew up around the Stanford University campus in California where his father headed the physics department. His mother was a progressive educator who established the private Peninsula School for elementary-age youngsters in Menlo Park, Calif.
"His mother taught him independence and organization, and his father taught him mechanics and flying," said his son.
His first airplane ride came at age 11, in a Boeing B-1 flying boat around Elliott Bay to Bremerton. It was enough for the flying bug to take hold. He learned to fly in his father's single-engine, two-seat plane, a Piper Cub he called "The Flying Professor."
Mr. Webster went to work for Pan Am in 1942, and for more than three decades flew 17 different planes, from the 15-passenger twin-engine Lockheed Lodestar to Boeing's 314 flying boats and 747 jumbo jets.
After reaching Pan Am's mandatory retirement age, he spent the next 17 years flying charter flights for Kenmore Air Harbor and for his own helicopter service, frequently around the Northwest and to Alaska.
Some of his clients included local photographers on assignment.
"Dave was a gifted pilot with skilled hands at the controls," said Seattle Times staff photographer Greg Gilbert. "He knew what I wanted and got it right, without having to circle around, as would often happen with other pilots."
He retired again at age 77, with another 6,000 hours in his logbook.
Mr. Webster kept nearly three-dozen photo albums meticulously documenting his adventures on land, sea and in the air. He was a founding member of the Mercer Island Beach Club.
His first wife, Tru, died in 1993 after 51 years of marriage. He remarried two years later.
Besides his son, he is survived by his wife, Isabel; and daughters, Wendy Birdwell of Seattle, Trudy Krastins of Issaquah, and Sheila Finkenbinder of Sitka, Alaska. Also surviving are his sister, Helen Wheelwright of North Bennington, Vt.; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.