The town of Easton has lost one recipient of the Boston Gold Head Cane and another resident who was the next in line. It has been decided that instead of awarding the cane to the oldest citizen, the town will make a case for the cane and hang it in the Town Office. The oldest recipients will have their names engraved and placed at the bottom of the case. This was decided because the cane was lost for several years before it was found and given to Lillian Keirstead, and sometimes the oldest citizen has nowhere to safely keep it. The oldest citizen is now being sought. Organizations
The Easton Happy Day’s Senior Citizen’s Club held their regular meeting on Feb. 8 with 10 members present. A potluck lunch was enjoyed and after the regular meeting Valentine’s Day was celebrated by some of the members bringing their wedding pictures. Some pictures of the young couples could not be identified by other members of the group. Time changes things. Those present were: Aileen Embleton, Avis Hume, Marie Hewitt, Edith Fuller, Ezalee Smith, Nina Trask, Lindy Fowler, Arlene Ladner, Vera Cullins and Glenice Craig.
Congratulations
Congratulations goes out to those Easton Jr./Sr. High School students who made the second quarter honor roll. To the seniors for highest honors: Leah Alexander, Kassie Lovely, Michelle Osgood and Briana White. To the high honor seniors: Holly Beaton, Seth Cleaves, Tammy Dayringer, Laura Hopkins and Jacob King. To the honors seniors: Denise Clark, Kendra Conroy and Abby Gray. To the Juniors who received highest honors: Molly White. Honors for juniors goes to Matthew Blodget. For sophomores on highest honors: Samuel Bacon, Katrina Martin and Bradley Trask. Honors goes to: C.J. Beaton, Kilynne Beaulieu and Megan Bradley. To freshmen on highest honors: Kaitlin Bennett, Lisa Dayringer, Luke Fuller and Anna Sherwood. High honors goes to Corey White. No one can say little schools can’t put out great students.
Visits
Mark and Carol Smith of Portland spent a recent weekend here in Easton visiting with his mother, Ezalee Smith, and other members of the family.
Clair and Eldora Carter have returned from more than a week’s visit in Scarborough where they went to ‘kid sit’ while their son and wife, Dana and Kimberley, attended a sales convention in Atlanta. The grandparents were kept jumping with taking Jeremy to debate team meetings, Emily to swim practice and meets, and Molly to indoor soccer practice and meets. Jeremy won first place in the State Debate program held in Poland, and along with two other members of Scarborough High School who won second and third place, will be going to Wichita, Kansas, in June to participate in the National Debate contest. Along with a late night trip to the Emergency Vet Hospital with the dog and getting Jeremy to his driver’s test for his license, which he got, all was calm. They were able to visit with another son, Michael and wife, Beth, from Portland, before they took off for a sales convention in Orlando, Florida, for a weekend. Michael is the manager of the department that installs hitches on vehicles at the Portland Handyman Rental. After Dana and Kimberley returned they were all invited to a delicious dinner at Wendell and Doreen’s and son Kyle’s home in Saco. On the Carters’ way to the Portland area they stopped for a night with Eldora’s brother and wife, Darrell and Norma Porter, in Pittston.
Hospitalized
An update on Darrell Page is that he is improving slowly but still is at Dana Farber Hospital in Boston. His wife, Adeline, is still in Boston as well. But his daughter, Mary Ann, had to come back home to get on with her work.
Lucy Allen, who formerly lived at the West Ridge Manor before moving to Presque Isle, is in The Aroostook Medical Center suffering with pneumonia.
Sympathy
Again we have lost the town’s oldest citizen. Geraldine Corey, who celebrated her 94th birthday on Monday, Feb. 5, passed away on Feb. 11 at the Presque Isle hospital. Geraldine was the daughter of Minnie and Clifford Bolster. She was an active member of the Pine Tree Baptist Church in Easton and for years she could be found behind the candy counter at W.T. Grant’s in Presque Isle. She enjoyed her time spent volunteering in the Aroostook Area Agency on Aging, R.S.V.P., and her membership in the Rose Club and the Red Hat Society. She enjoyed her life. She leaves a son, Gary Corey, in Colorado, and two daughters, Patricia Fitzherbert, of Easton, and Paulette Garrison of Presque Isle, and many grandchildren, great grandchildren and six great-great grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted at the Duncan-Graves Funeral Home on Friday, Feb. 16, by Pastor Carlos deCruz. Those who wish may make donations in her memory to the Easton Pine Tree Church, 704 Houlton Road, Easton, ME 04740 or to the Parkinson Disease Foundation, 710 West 168th St., New York, NY 10032. Interment will be in the Estes Park Cemetery, Easton, in the spring.
Belated sympathy goes out to Holly Kimball and her husband, Eric, and Deborah Jacques, all of Easton, on the death of their father, 72-year-old Richard Guyan Sr. who passed away at the Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor on Jan. 26. Richard was a member of the United States Air Force and also the United States Navy for many years. He recently worked for The Aroostook Medical Center and with Jim’s Auto Sales in Presque Isle. He enjoyed old cars and car shows, as well as karaoke, and he loved family outings. He leaves two sons, Richard Guyan Jr., of Presque Isle, and Kevin Guyan, of Wasburn, and his two daughters, Holly and Deborah and their families. A military graveside service will be held at the Maine Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery in Caribou later in the spring.
We also express our sympathy to the family and friends of 84-year-old Emma Conlogue who passed away on Feb. 5 at a Caribou health care facility. She was a graduate of the Fort Fairfield High School, the Aroostook Normal School and the University of Maine at Presque Isle. Emma was a respected school teacher for 40 years spending most of those years in the Easton School System as a 4th-grade teacher. She enjoyed teaching and liked her students, but every child moving on to the 4th grade dreaded that step for they had heard ahead of time that she was tough. She was tough, but fair, and was from the old school of strict discipline but the children were treated to special treats and parties when the occasion called for it. She worked hard to put her two sons, Eugene, of Presque Isle, and Jon Conlogue, of Springfield, Mass., through college and she will be sadly missed by those men and their families. She leaves grandchildren, great grandchildren and great-step grandchildren, who will truly miss her. She is also survived by a sister, Alwilda Munson, of Wiscasset, and her family. Emma’s husband, Paul Conlogue, passed away in 2005. Interment will be in the Fairmont Cemetery in Presque Isle in the spring. Because she loved books and animals, the family suggests that any donations made in her memory should be made to the Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library, 39 Second St., Presque Isle, ME 04769 or to the Central Aroostook Humane Society, P.O. Box 1115, Presque Isle, ME 04769.
