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        Editor’s Note: Since the Spring/Summer ’21 newsletter and this issue we have lost  one  class rep that we are
        aware of due to his passing.   The newsletter staffs’ condolences go out to the following representative’s family: Glen   CLASS NEWS
        Larson ‘53.                                                                            DEADLINE
        We are happy to note that we have picked up two new class reps: Carl Beaulieu ’53  and Rick Nickerson ’81.    For Spring/Summer '22
        If your class does not have a rep, please consider becoming one.
                                                                                             4/1/22
        Class of 1941               Class of 1951
        Iona Farrar Forbes          Gertrude Ervin Reichert
        27 Solman St. #205          6605 Meadowland Circle                                  Send or e-mail your news
        Caribou, ME 04736           Erie, PA 16509                                             to your class rep.
        (207) 492-3491              (814) 864-1681
                                    trudy59000@gmail.com                                   Class reps, please forward
        Class of 1942                                                                           all information to:
        Need Class Rep              Class of 1952                                                Jon McLaughlin
                                    Bruce Arnold
        Class of 1943               244 Wencin Terrace                                             PO Box 783
                                                                                                Houlton, ME 04730
        Need Class Rep              West Chester, PA 19382                                    jon@sadcaroostook.org
                                    (610) 420-8166
        Class of 1944               brucearnold@aol.com
        Need Class Rep                                                                     went to work for Carl as his
                                    Eugene A. Jackins sad-                                 Office Secretary. After they re-
        Class of 1945               ly wrote in to update his   Mary Lou Woods Gray of     tired, they moved to Phoenix
        Ruth Gourley                classmates.  “After 66 years of   Longmont Colorado passed   AZ. Carl passed away in 2011,
        PO Box 203                  marriage, my wonderful wife,   away peacefully on August   Mary Lou stayed in Phoenix
        Grantham, NH 03753          Delores York Jackins, Class of   3, 2021, at the age of 87. She   until 2017 when she moved
        (603) 863-2362              1954, passed on January 18,   was born in Houlton Maine   back to Colorado to be with
        RuthGourley8@gmail.com      2021.  She had two cancers,   on July 16, 1934. Mary Lou   her children.
                                    diabetes blood loss to the   was the daughter of James   She is survived by her brother
        Class of 1946               left leg after fighting it for 2   and Addie Woods of Houlton,   Donald Woods and her sister
        Need Class Rep              ½ years!”  He notes that “The   Maine. She graduated Houlton   Anngaye Woods Ellis, her son
                                    teaching of Spanish at HHS   High School in 1952 and then   James Gray and wife Rhonda
        Class of 1947               was dropped at the end of   was married to Carl W. Gray on   of Frederick, CO. Her daughter
        Need Class Rep              the Spanish-American War in   October 31, 1953. They had   Linda Sheeran and husband
                                    1898.  I restarted it again at   three children, Bruce, James,   Ray of Wheat Ridge, CO.
        Class of 1948               HHS.”                      and Linda. They moved to    grand children, Chris Sheeran,
        Need Class Rep              Notice of this obituary came   Thornton Colorado in 1969   Raymond Sheeran and Teela
                                    to us from Margaret E. Cleary   and spent most of their lives   Sheeran, Jimmy Gray, April
        Class of 1949               ’52 stating that Mrs. Gray   there. Mary Lou and Carl loved   Smith, Serina George and
        Need Class Rep              passed away having suffered   to entertain and had many   several great grandchildren.
                                    a fall after a long and coura-  get togethers including many   She was preceded in death
        Class of 1950               geous struggle with Parkin-  memorable pool parties. Mary   by her husband Carl, her son
        Byrna Mae Porter Weir       son’s Disease on August 3,   Lou’s hobbies were sewing,   Bruce, her brother William
        PO Box 18456                2021, in Longmont, Colorado.  knitting and ceramics. Mary-  Woods and brother Robert
        Rochester, NY 14618                                    lou worked for many years as   Woods.
        BMPo-231@bluefrog.com                                  a Dental Assistant and then

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