Obituaries

 

Charlotte Farber

July 18, 2022
Portland, Maine

Charlotte Zimmerman Farber died peacefully on Monday July 18th, just a few months shy of her 100th birthday. Charlotte was the last surviving sibling of the Monument Street Zimmerman clan of six children (siblings included Abraham, Rosaline, Lillian, Violet and Dorothy).  Charlotte attended Portland High…

Edward Eisenstadt

July 8, 2022
Scarborough, Maine

Edward L. Eisenstadt, 76, of Wells, ME passed away Friday, July 8, 2022, from a long battle of illnesses at Hospice of Southern Maine – The Gosnell House, with family at his side. Born in Newark, NJ on April 16, 1946, the son of Arthur…

Gladys (Shiro) Adelson

June 6, 2022
Portland, Maine

Gladys M. (Shiro) Adelson, 100, passed away peacefully on June 6, 2022.  Gladys was born in Newton, Massachusetts on December 20, 1921, to Louis and Celia (Wasser) Shiro.  At a very young age her family moved to Waterville, Maine, where she was raised along with…

Howard Pedlikin

May 28, 2022
Portland, Maine

Howard Pedlikin was born May 12, 1939, in Providence, Rhode Island, and passed away May 28, 2022.  He was the son of Irving and Sophie Pedlikin.  He served in the United States Airforce at Little Rock Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama, Denver, Colorado, Hanscom Air…

Evelyn Lane

April 20, 2022
Auburn, Maine

Evelyn Lane, nee Muskin, died April 20, 2022, age 94.  Burial at 1pm, April 24, Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY.  Born in Brooklyn, 1928.  Cornell, 1948, BA.  1950’s social worker for Connecticut Child Welfare Department.  Loving wife and mother, active in PTA, Girl Scouts and politics…

Carole Dvora Spill Cole

March 25, 2022
Needham, Massachusetts

Carole Dvora Spill Cole of Needham, MA died on March 25th, following a long, tortuous course of Parkinson’s Disease. The daughter of Judge Simon Spill and Esther (Eppie) Finkelman Spill, Carole was born and raised in Biddeford Maine along with her younger sister, Linda.  She…

Deborah Petrovsky

March 25, 2022
Scarborough, Maine

Deborah Ruth Petrovsky, passed away peacefully on March 25, 2022 as the sun was setting, the day after her 59th birthday, after receiving a diagnosis of ALS in 2019. Debbie was born in 1963 in Portland to Miriam and Irving Remar, and beloved big sister,…

Michael Cohen

March 17, 2022
Scarborough, Maine

Michael Lane Cohen passed bravely and peacefully away on March 17 th , 2022 at the Gosnell House in Scarborough, ME surrounded with so much love by his devoted wife, Hedy (Shechman), and adoring children, Elliot and Natalie. Born in 1949 to parents Elenore (Fogel)…

Annette Chason

March 9, 2022
Portland, ME

Annette Edith Ginsburg Chason, age 94, passed away peacefully on March 9, 2022, surrounded by her loving family and friends.  She was born on December 4, 1927. Annette grew up in Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania, in the 1930s, the daughter of immigrants Israel Ginsburg of Russia, an…