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MICHELLE D. COLSON
 Michelle D. Colson, 47, took her last peaceful journey to heaven on Tuesday, March 2, 2010, after a very long courageous battle with illness. Michelle was born in Bangor, Maine, on December 20, 1962, the daughter of Don and Brenda Colson.
Michelle graduated from Churchill High School in San Antonio, Tex. She attended San Antonio College in San Antonio and Beal College in Bangor, and spent most of her life in service industries. She loved working with people and was very good at it. Everyone loved her too. Although Michelle spent a lot of her working life in several different locations in Connecticut, South Carolina and Florida, she most looked forward to coming “home” to Maine and her island of Stonington.
Michelle is survived by her parents, Don and Brenda Colson of Stonington; two brothers, Craig Colson of Bangor, and D. Matthew Colson and his wife, Sara, of Derry, N.H.; and five beloved nieces and nephews, Lydia and Natalie Colson of Old Town, and Thomas, Benjamin and Elizabeth Colson of Derry, N.H. She is also survived by several very good friends, Lanie Witt Colson of Old Town, Tammy Hagerthy of Stonington, Gladys Smith of Brooksville, Rebecca Brown of Winterport, Sandy Jones of Stonington, Judy Zophel of Deer Isle and Julie Nordin Swahn of Sweden.
Michelle’s family would like to send our deepest thanks and gratitude to all the caring and loving staff at Eastern Maine Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Ross Manor and all the many friends who reached out to support Michelle during her long illness.
A memorial service was held March 6, 2010, at Bragdon-Kelley Funeral Home, 9 Thurlow’s Hill Road, Stonington.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to EMMC Palliative Care/Healthcare Charities, P.O. Box 931, Bangor, 04402.
Family and friends may offer their condolences to the Colson family by visiting www.bragdonkelley.com.
ARTHUR CABOT “DUD” HASKELL JR.
DEER ISLE—Arthur Cabot “Dud” Haskell Jr., crossed the bar, March 2, 2010, at the Island Nursing Home.
He was the oldest child of Arthur C. and Beatrice Pickering Haskell.
He was born at home in Deer Isle, August 20, 1920. He graduated from McKinley High School, Deer Isle, in 1938, and was a proud member of the high school band.
In 1939 he began his maritime career on the yacht Camargo. In 1940 he went to work for Merchant & Miners Co. climbing the hawsepipe on ships S.S. Kent, S.S. Fairfax, S.S. Berkshire, and the ill-fated S.S. Dorchester.
At the beginning of WW II he got his 3rd mate’s papers and shipped on the Alcoa Polaris, a C-1 military cargo ship on an around the world trip via the Panama Canal to Australia, the Persian Gulf to Cape Town, South Africa, to Buenos Aires and back to the United States. The ship was converted to a troop transport. He sailed as 2nd mate to the Pacific where it was involved in the conflicts at New Guinea, Bougainville, Saipan and the Leyte Gulf.
After the war he went back to yachting, and earned his unlimited masters license in 1951. He spent the 50s as master of yachts cruising the Atlantic and Caribbean.
In the 60s he returned to commercial vessels, serving on missile trackers, cargo ships, and tankers.
In 1980 he retired from the sea, to Deer Isle, to help with the care of his parents, until their deaths.
He was very community-minded and did what he could the help people and the community.
He joined the Memorial Ambulance Corps, earned his EMT and served on the Board of Directors.
He mentored several school children, and was always interested in attending school events—especially basketball games.
He took great interest in his grandchildren’s accomplishments. He was a local historian of Island families and local lore—keeping many journals and scrapbooks. He was a 55+ year member of Marine Lodge #122 of Deer Isle.
His special project was the restoration of the Shakespeare School, a one-room school that in recent years had been used as a school bus garage. With the help of others in the neighborhood, he returned the building to its original configuration.
Always a friend, he cared for several of his friends and shipmates in their final days. He was predeceased by his parents, a great-grandson, Joe, and three close boyhood friends, Ted Pickering, Charles Haskell and Walker Pickering.
He is survived by his daughter, Carole LeMoine of Ellsworth, son Jon, and his wife, Doreene, of Deer Isle; grandchildren, Julie Allen, Janet Carter, Jennifer Brown, Barbara Aldrich, Jonathan Haskell, Susan Lucey and Jessica Haskell; great-grandchildren, Taylor, Rob, Patrick, Jennie, Samantha, Chelsea, Whitney, Christina, Nicholas, Rylie and Cayle; brother, Victor, and his wife, Barbara, of Stonington, sister, Carolyn Heston of Beech Grove, Ind.; several cousins, nephews and a niece; and very many friends, especially Eric Ziner and family.
F.W.E. 06:00, March 2, 2010. A spring remembrance is being planned.
In lieu of flowers, remembrances in the memory of Dud may be sent to the Joseph L. Brown Scholarship Fund, c/o Bar Harbor Bank, 25 Church Street, Deer Isle, 04627
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