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wanting others to feel and I went to his graveside Note: My new email address is travel ATV trails. Penny says
loved and encouraged.” “He service and reception in Lllst1964@gmail.com she’s going to get an ebike,
was a hard worker, expert East Millinocket and met his Linda Leavitt St. Peter too. Sharon Harris Boutilier
handyman, jack of all trades.” children and grandson, John, Class of 1960 Rep lives on Bangor Road near the
who looks so much like Rick defunct burger joint, Alcorns.
did in high school. Class of 1961 Judy Lambert Britton and

Barbara McGillicuddy Bolton husband Bob live in Judy’s
384A 5th St. childhood home on Common-
Brooklyn, NY 11215 wealth Avenue. “I can’t believe
(718) 788-2282 I’m 80,” one of us said, and we
mcgillbolt@yahoo.com all reminded her that, actually
we’re 82 (except for Marilyn
Gayle Beckwith Stinson who’s 83.)
passed away July 6, 2024, in On another day I had more
New Hampshire, conversations with Linda.
Barbara McGillicuddy After high school graduation,
Bolton reports: she worked briefly as a sec-
retary for Duran Oil—during
Richard Roy died July 6, 2025. On July 21, on an open and high school, she’d worked
He was born in Houlton, shut day with occasional for Duran’s Dairy Bar. In 1962,
the youngest of 16 children. showers, I drove up from East she married George Wotton
After graduating he enlisted At the end of July, my sister Grand Lake where Frank and I ‘57 and moved to his family’s
in the US Army serving as a Nancy Leavitt ‘72 and I were spend the summer to Marilyn dairy farm in Littleton. Over
paratrooper in the Vietnam having lunch at Brookside and Hoar Carey’s camp on Drew’s the years she worked along-
War. After the service, he were surprised to find Connie Lake. Seven of us gathered in side him, haying, milking, and
Anderson MacKinnon! her glass-fronted living room harvesting potatoes. Three
to trade stories. In the winter, daughters, Holly, Angela, and
There were 100 classmates in Marilyn lives in a bucolic
our 1960 yearbook and class setting in the Washington, DC Sara were born in ‘64, ‘65, and
composite. There were 101 area. Elizabeth Peltier had ‘69. George’s parents lived
on our Class Roster receiving taken leave from her four cats next door and helped with
diplomas. Pat Hensley was in Greenville, where she has a babysitting so that Linda
in the yearbook and on the summer house on an island in could continue working on
composite but moved away in Moosehead Lake and a year- the farm. In the fall of 1989,
the fall of 1959. Lee Grant is round home in town where George drowned while on
on the Roster, but her picture she can walk to the post office a fishing trip. Linda enlisted
is missing from the yearbook and the library. Liz was born Northeast Potato Company to
and composite. Gayle in Greenville and moved to harvest her crop; She sold the
Carson Bates is on our roster Houlton when she was two. cows to Richard Riley; when
but was in the 1959 yearbook. Penny Saunders Nevers he came to pick them up, she
Of the 101 graduates, 61 and Linda Dickison Wotton spent the day in Bangor, not
were males and 40 females. willing to watch them taken
became a sheet metal worker 54 members are deceased: live in apartments in Bartley away. In 2016, her grandson
at Great Northern Paper in 37 males and 17 females. I Gardens on the County Road. George took over the farm,
East Millinocket where “you still have no information Linda walks every day and turning it into a beef opera-
name it, Rick can make it” was on Frederick J. Grant and rides an ebike. She always tion, and Linda moved down
a shared sentiment. One of Charles P. Ingraham. travels with others, often with to Houlton. She is fortunate
his older sisters was Terry’s one of her daughters. Her bike that her daughters, 5 grand-
mother, Alma St. Peter. Terry has fat tires so that she can children, and 4 great grand-

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