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B6 BANGOR DAILY NEWS MONDAY MARCH 6 2000 OBITUARIES HAZEL GOLDBACH HARTLAND Hazel Gold-bach 79 died Thursday March 2 2000 at the Sanfield Living Center A funeral service will be held 1 pm Tuesday March 7 at Shorey Funeral Chapel 35 Hartland Ave Pittsfield A complete obituary is published in today's Morning Sentinel Composer George Duning dies at 92 PATRICIA BRENNAN PATTEN Patricia "Patsy Bre n-nan 71 of Patten died March 4 2000 at Patten She was born March 18 1928 in Benedicta the daughter of Jeremiah and Annie (Lawlor) Brennan She attended Greenvalley School and Crestview Manor where she won numerous Special Olympic medals Patsy enjoyed music play-' ing cards dancing bingo and teople and after she met someone ind they were a friend for life She is survived by four sisters Gladys Brennan of Patten Carlene Michaud of East- Millinocket Virginia (Cameron) Bulger of Patten Theresa Albert of Benedicta several nieces and nephews- She was predeceased by two sisters Madeline Thomas and Sr Eusebius (Thelma Brennan) A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 1 1 am Tuesday at St Benedict's Catholic Church Ben e-dicfa with Fr Chanel Cyr celebrant Spring interment will be in St Benedict's Cemetery Those who wish may donate to the Mt Heights Health Care Activities Fund Patten 04765 Arrangements by Bowers Funeral Home WILLIAM FOSTER ROCKLAND William Foster 67 died Sunday March 5 2000 at his home in Rockland He was born May 1 2 1 932 in Fort Fairfield the son of Marguerite (Howard) and Roy Chester Foster He graduated from Easton High School and then Husson College before serving in the US Navy as an underwater demolition technician William was a manager of the -Trade Winds Hotel in Rockland He -was a member of the Jaycees in Bangpr an avid fisherman and enjoyed his family traveling and researching genealogy William was predeceased by his father Roy Foster and his wife Patricia Foster He is survived by his mother Marguerite Foster three sons Timothy Foster of Columbus Ohio Michael Higgins of Rockland and Patrick Higgins of Hunter NY seven daughters Patricia Harrington of Portsmouth NH Julie McNaughton of Silver Springs Md Diane Dietrich of Alexandria Va Carol Mills of South Thomaston Mara Nadeau of San Francisco Calif Laura Foster of Arlington Va and Jennifer Foster of Rockland two brothers Philip Foster of Bangor and Stephen Foster of Ellsworth two sisters Molly Malcolm of Owls Head and Joan Turner of Easton a special aunt Doris Dow of Rockland a special cousin Maxine Perry of Fort Fairfield a good friend Jean Laukka of West Rockland 13 grandchildren Funeral services will be held 1 1 am Wednesday March 8 at Carpenter Funeral Home 306 Broadway Rockland The Rev Paul Marshall will officiate Interment will take place in the spring Friends wishing to make memorial contributions may do so to Kno-Wal-Lin Coastal Family Hospice 170 Pleasant St Rockland 04841 THURLOWA LEE OLD TOWN and CAPE CORAL FLA Thurlow A Lee TA passed away March 5 2000 at Fort Myers Fla He was bom in Patten March 13 1916 Mr Lee was a graduate of Old Town High School Class of 1932 and attended the University of Maine School of Engineering He was a veteran of World War II and a 32nd degree member of the Masonic Lodge He was an avid sports fan During his early year? he foupded and managed the Old Town Redskins basketball and football teams He officiated at many high school and college sporting events He was also a championship bowler and golfer Mr Lee spent more than 40 years in the construction business both international and stateside as site manager and mechanical engineer He was employed by Walter Kiddee Construction Co Peter Kiewitt Sons Crow-Steers-Shepherd and Greenland Contractors He managed major construction projects in Thule Greenland Asmara Ethiopia Tripoli Libya Saudi Arabia Vietnam Iran and Turkey He is survived by his wife of 43 years Barbara Lee three children by a previous wife Olga Maroon Bradstreet: Sandra Lee Horn and husband David of Tulsa Okla John Lee and wife Sheila of Old Town and Robert Lee of Maynard Mass seven grandchildren Rhonda Veillieux of Brentwood NH Catherine Fleck of Midland Texas Jon Lee of Holden Todd Lee of Bangor David Horn II of Tulsa Okla Susan Kordish of Dracut Mass and Theresa Mamatus of Birmingham Mich four greatgrandchildren Sarah Veillieux John Kordish George Mamatus and Evan Lee Although he had retired to Florida he enjoyed his summers in Maine visiting with his children and grandchildren No services are planed and burial will be at Orono CHARLES A BOULEY DOVER FOXCROFT Charles A Bouley 47' died unexpectedly March 4 2000 at his residence He was born Jn Dover-Foxcroft April 22 1952 the son of Albert and Lillian (King) Bouley He was a graduate of Foxcroft Academy attended EMVTI was in the Air National Guard and had done carpentry and autobody work He is survived by his parents of Dover-Foxcroft three sons Eric of Dover-Foxcroft Jordan of Blue Hill and Brandon of East Corinth two sisters Sarah Dyer and Bea Bouley one brother George all of Dover-Foxcroft several nieces and nephews Graveside services at Dover Cemetery will be announced in the spring by the Lory Funeral Home EDNA A DEARBORN BANGOR Edna Dearborn 91 died March 4 2000 at a Bangor health-care center She was born in Bangor July 22 1908 the daughter of Carl and Alice Dearborn She attended Bangor schools and graduated from Bangor High School Class of 1926 and Farmington Normal School Class of 1928 Edna taught in the South Brooks Rural School and at Stockton Springs in 1929 and 1930 After this she was employed as head of the book department at Freese's Department Store for several years She then attended Gorham Normal School and received her degree in 1942 She taught second grade for two years in Rye NH Edna then moved to Portsmouth NH and taught second grade for 28 years retiring in 1973 when she returned to Bangor While in New Hampshire Edna was very active in the Portsmouth Methodist Church as a choir member Sunday school teacher and a member of the Women's Society After she e-turned to Bangor she sang in several church and community choruses including St John's Episcopal and Bangor First Methodist Edna was also very active in several women's clubs and church groups having served as president of the Norumbega Club Penobscot Retired Teachers Club Bethany Circle of King's Daughters and pres i-dent of the State King's Daughters as well as being a member of the Bangor Women's Club and the NcX Edna's church affiliations i n-cluded Piburn Circle and United Methodist Women She was a life member of Tuscan Chapter No 1 48 OES of Bangor and held several offices Surviving are a nephew Alan Wright of Mansfield Conn brother-in-law Frank Wright of South Portland two grandnieces Dr Kathryn Wright of Raleigh NC and Marlena Apostolatos of Greece Funeral services will be held 2:30 pm Tuesday at Brookings-Smith 133 Center St Bangor with the Rev Dr Randall Chretien pastor of the First United Methodist Church officiating Friends may call 1 :30 pm until time of service on Tuesday Gifts in her memory may be sent to the First United Methodist Church 703 Essex St Bangor 04401 Interment will be in Mount Hope Cemetery JJannorfhihiXnus OBjPftRY DEPARTMENT 990-8128 1-800-432-7964 EXT 8128 By Myrna Oliver Los Angeles Types George Duning prolific composer of music for television and motion pictures who was nominated for Academy Awards five times has died at the age of 92 Duning who scored such classic films as Here to and died Feb 27 at Alvarado Hospital in San Diego of cardiovascular disease The former jazz trumpeter also was nominated for Oscars for Sings in 1949 two years after he began his contract with Columbia Pictures for Sad Songs for in 1950 and for Eddy Duchin in 1956 In the middle of that string of successful scores came Here to in 1953 and in 1955 During his 15 years with Columbia Duning composed music for about six motion pictures a year including No Man Write My Sister to Touch of and Book and Duning also composed extensively for television including such series as Big City and He wound up his long career as musical director of Aaron Spelling Productions Duning was born in Richmond Ind a center for early jazz recording He studied music theory at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and studied composition with Mario Castelnubvo-Tedesco Duning had started his own band at the age of 15 and after college joined various jazz bands as a trumpeter In the 1930s Duning got his initial career boost when he was hired as musical director of the radio show Kollege of Musical In 1939 when Kyser signed with RKO to do a series of films Duning went along as musical arranger The work was interrupted by World War II which put Duning in the Navy as conductor and arranger for the Armed Forces Radio Service British pilot Dominic Bruce dead at 84 By William Honan The New York Times Dominic Bruce a British bomber pilot who made no fewer than 17 attempts in four years to escape from his German captors at the famous Colditz prison died Feb 12 in England He was 84 Despite his determination and ingenuity Bruce was recaptured every time he broke free from Colditz Castle near Leipzig The farthest he ever made it was to Danzig 400 miles away He had jumped aboard trains and had stolen bicycles left outside churches while their owners were at worship That time he was finally caught while trying to stow away on a Swedish freighter He spent the next eight months in solitary confinement but the experience did little to curb his audacity On one of his several escapes he left a smirking note on the windowsill over which he departed spelling out in German the message: air in Colditz no longer pleases me Auf kept trying because it was he said after the war gave you a feeling like hitting the jackpot And most importantly of all I knew it got up the Bruce was repatriated in 1945 when Colditz was liberated He was awarded the British Military Cross for his escape attempts Bruce then studied history at Oxford and eventually became principal of Kingston upon Thames College of Further Education in 1969 Bom on June 7 1915 Bruce joined the Royal Air Force in 1935 and became a pilot In 1941 his Wellington bomber was shot down over Zeebrugge the North Sea port by German fighters He bailed out and was picked up by a German vessel Bruce is survived by his wife six sons and three daughters 1926 Photo HAROLD WOODARD SR GLENBURN and BANGOR -Harold Woodard Sr 91 died March 5 2000 at his home in Bangor He was born Oct 8 1908 in Newport the son of Herbert and Valentine (White) Woodard He graduated from Maine em' tral Institute Pittsfield and Barber School in Boston He was honorably discharged from the Maine State Guard in 1943 He retired after 30 years of service from Bangor and Aroostook Railroad in 1973 Harold enjoyed gardening and any work that involved being out in the fields and woods He especially enjoyed the seashore clamming and fishing He attended First Apostolic Church of Brewer He made his home with his daughter Patricia and her husband Norman of Bangor He was predeceased by his parents a sister Inez and his wife of 58 years Lovina A (Dow) Woodard on Feb 22 1 990 He is survived by one brother Avon Woodard and his wife Phylixina of Dexter three sons and their wives Alfred and Marilyn Woodard of Carmel Harold Jr and Christel of Derby and Miles and Harumi of Glenburn two daughters and their husbands' Patricia A and Norman Morneault of Bangor and Cintra and Paul Hopper of Hampden He is also survived by 18 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren Friends are invited to visit with the family 6-9 pm Monday at the Crosby Neal Funeral Home 64 Main St Newport Funeral services will be held 2 pm Tuesday March 7 at the First Apostolic Church of Brewer 14 Parkway So Brewer with the Rev David Smith and the Rev Kevin Coffin officiating Burial be in Morses Corner Cemetery Corinna in the spring Donations in memory of Harold may be made to the Apostolic Christian Academy 1 4 Parkway St Brewer 0441 2 PEGGY LYNN HARRIS NEWPORT and VERNAL UTAH Peggv Lynn (Emery) Harris 47 beloved wife of Bruce Harris for 31 years died unexpectedly March 1 2000 at Vernal Utah where she and Bruce had lived since last May She was born in Bangor Sept 28 1 952 the daughter of Arthur and Clarice (Sylvester) Emery She attended Newport schools and was a graduate of Nokomis Regional High School in Newport Peggy was a past president of the Plymouth Fire Department Auxiliary a Brownie Scout leader and a member of the Nokomis Chapter Order of the Eastern Star in Newport She enjoyed gardening and was well known in the area ter her wonderful cooking She cooked for the lunch program at the Newport-Plvmouth Elementary and Jr High School in Newport for several years She cooked and worked at the Plymouth General Store and most recently Bears One Stop in Newport Peggy is survived by her husband Bruce three sons Shane and his wife Nirla Harris of Sandy Utah Matthew Harris of Spokane Wash and Joshua Harris of Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana a granddaughter Kathleen Allison Harris of Sandy Utah her father and stepmother Arthur and Nancy Emery of Meredith NH her mother and stepfather Clarice and Wayne Hustus of Dixmont two sisters Linda and her husband William Holmes of Beaverton Ore Sharon and her husband Gordon Corson of Winslow two brothers Mark Emery and his wife Joanne of North Windham Timothy Emery of Florida several aunts uncles nieces nephews grandnieces grandnephews and cousins Friends may call 6-8 pm Monday March 6 2000 at the Brown Funeral Home 24 High St Newport where funeral services will be conducted 1 pm Tuesday with Pastor Al Worden officiating Spring burial will be in the family lot at Sawyer Cemetery Plymouth Friends who wish may make memorial donations to the Girl Scouts Abnaki Council 165 North Main St Brewer 0441 2 Peggy Johnson Iacocca auto ex-wife DETROIT Peggy Johnson Iacocca ex-wife of former Chrysler Corp Chairman Lee Iacocca died Feb 29 in a Florida hospital of a heart attack She was 49 A native of Kinston NC she was a flight attendant and part-time publicist when introduced to Iacocca by former Florida Gov Claude Kirk They worked together on the team that raised money to restore Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty to celebrate the 1986 centennial Iacocca headed the project Iacocca had rescued Chrysler from bankruptcy and written a best-selling autobiography The courtship and brief marriage generated a wave of curiosity and media coverage around the country They separated in October 1986 and were divorced the next year She moved to Miami Beach and never remarried Mildred Limbaugh 74 talk show mother CAPE GIRARDEAU Mo -Mildred Limbaugh the mother of talk show host Rush Limbaugh died March 2 She was 74 Limbaugh was the wife of attorney Rush Limbaugh Jr who died in 1990 She is survived by two sons Rush Limbaugh III and David Scott Limbaugh A 1943 graduate of Kennett High School she worked as a secretary at Malden Air Force Base during World War II She also attended Southeast Missouri State University for two years Limbaugh sang professionally for a short time in Chicago and was a member of the church choir at Centenary Methodist Church for many years She was also a former committeewoman for the Cape Girardeau Republican Club Begona Palacios 58 wife of Sam Peckinpah MEXICO CITY Begona Palacios an actress who was the wife of the late film maverick Sam Peckinpah died March 1 of a liver malfunction She was 58 Palacios met Peckinpah while starring in movies in Hollywood in the early 1960s She was best known in Mexico for action movies such as Saint Against the and Saint Against the Ghost of the both filmed in 1963 Last year she starred in the Mexican soap opera Sandra Schmirler 36 Canadian curling star REGINA Saskatchewan Sandra Schmirler among the first Olympic gold medalists in curling and a three-time world champion died March 2 of cancer She was 36 She- was part of the Canadian team with Jan Betker Joan McCusker Marcia Gudereit and Atina Ford that won the gold medal at the Nagano Olympics in 1998 It was the first time curling was a medal sport at the Olympics Schmirler also won three Canadian championships and three world championships in the 1990s Her cancer was diagnosed last year and she underwent surgery in September followed by radiation and chemotherapy From The Associated Press HELENA JIMMO AMNOTT FORESTVILLE CONN and ASHLAND Helena "Nellie Amnott 94 died March 4 2000 at a Farmington Conn health-care facility She was born in Wallagrass Oct 1 5 1 905 the daughter of Edward and Victoria (Berube) Belan-ger A resident of Forestville Conn since 1951 she was a member of St Matthew Church She is survived by one son and daughter-in-law Rene and Mona Jimmo of Rockville Conn two daughters and a son-in-law Mabel Cray of Ashland and Mary and Vernon Young of Forestville three sisters Mabel Guimond of Fort Kent Yvonne Michaud and Claudia Belanger both of Soldier Pond 10 grandchildren 13 great- grandchildren seven great-great- grandchildren and many nieces and nephews She was predeceased by her first husband Paul Jimmo her second husband Frank 'Bob' Amnott four brothers and one sister' Relatives and friends may call at the Stimson-Ouellette Funeral Home 114 Exchange St Ashland from 9: 30 am until time of service on Thursday A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 am Thursday at the St Mark Catholic Church with Rev Scott Mower pastor celebrant Spring interment will be in the parish cemetery Those who wish may contribute in her memory to the Alzheimert Association 443 Franklin Ave Hartford Conn 06114-2517 or to St Matthew Church Development Fund 1 20 Church Ave Forestville Conn 06010 KENNETH CUNNINGHAM BREWER and EDDINGTON -Kenneth Cunningham 90 husband of the late Olive (Peavey) Cunningham died March 4 2000 at a Brewer health care center He was born June 12 1909 in Patten the son of Richard and Annie A (Cooper) Cunningham He is survived by a daughter and son-in-law Dianne and Warren Gardner of Eddington one granddaughter Lynne A (Gardner) Laskey and her husband Robert of Brunswick two grandsons Scott A Gardner and Kerry Gardner both of Eddington two brothers-in-law Halbert Peavey of Leominster Mass and Francis Peavey of Patten one sister-in-law Annie Gould of Greenville several nieces and nephews In addition to his wife he was predeceased by his parents three sisters Marie Clarke Hazel Glidden and Margaret Cunningham two brothers Laurel and Hugh Cunningham A graveside service will be held at Wood lawn Cemetery Brewer at a time to be announced in the spring Arrangements by Foley Funeral Service 299 Union St Bangor ALPHONSE KIELTYKA AUGUSTA Alphonse "Al" Kieltyka 75 of 1 Tobey Street died Saturday March 4 2000 at the Veterans Affairs Center at Togus after a long illness He was born in New Bedford Mass May 27 1924 the son of John Michael Kieltyka of Chicopee Mass and Maryanna (Chmura) Kieltyka of Warsaw Poland Mr Kieltyka attended high school in Massachusetts and continued his education at the University of New Hampshire majoring in history He served honorably in the US Navy during World War II Prior to his retirement in 1986 Mr Kieltyka had been employed by the State of Maine Department of Transportation for 18 He was previously employed by the State of Maine Department of Taxation and the Maine State Police For the last few years Mr Kieltyka has been a frequent contributor to the Kennebec Journal "Letters to the Editor" He served as assistant scout master of St Mary's Boy Scout Troop for several years in the late 1960's He was a lifetime member of Fitzgerald-Cummings American Legion Post 2 of Augusta was active in the Toastmasters for many years was a member of the Slavophile Society and enjoyed several hobbies including following the stock market and politics His first wife Shirley (Stevens) Kieltyka died on Sept 2 1994 He was also preceded in death by his parents a brother William Kieltyka and a sister Genevieve Kieltyka Surviving is his wife Deanne (Bechara) Kieltyka of Augusta three sons William Kieltyka and his wife Evelyn of Brunswick Wesley Kieltyka and his wife Judi of Augusta and Wendell Kieltyka of Winthrop one brother Stanley Kieltyka of Worcester Mass and three grandchildren Brandon Bronson and Molly Kieltyka Visiting hours are 2-4 and 7-9 pm Monday at Plummer Funeral Home 16 Pleasant Street Augusta where a funeral service will be held Tuesday at 1 1 am Burial will be in Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery Civic Center Dr Augusta Those who desire may make donations to American Cancer Society New England Division Inc 52 Federal St Brunswick 0401 1-2194.