Category: Passages/Obituaries

Passages: February 12, 2023

Tanya White, 49, of Sanford passed away February 1 as the result of a brief battle with cancer.Read her obituary here: https://blackfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/tanya-white. A celebration of life will be held on Sunday, March 5 from 1:00 P.M to 6:00 P.M at the VFW Function Hall at the corner of School St. and Hutchinson St. Sanford, ME. Arline "Linda" Lizotte, a 1967 Sanford High School graduate,  passed away February 5 at the age of 74 after a long battle with dementia. Read her obituary…

Passages: February 5, 2023

Lifelong Sanford resident and World War II veteran Leon Tanguay passed away January 27 at the age of 98. Read his obituary here: https://blackfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/leon-tanguay. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 11:00 am on Wednesday, February 8th at Holy Family Church. A live stream of the service will also be available at the parish website https://stthereseparishmaine.org/livestream. Interment with military honors will be held in the spring at Saint Ignatius Cemetery. Alan “Big Al” Nichols, a 1982 Sanford High…

Obituary: Kenneth G. Demers

Kenneth G. Demers, 84, of Alfred passed away peacefully with his family by his side on Friday, January 20, 2023, at Southern Maine Health Care in Biddeford. He was born on December 23, 1938, to Harvey and Helen (Gerard) Demers in Biddeford and while he was very young moved to Sanford where he grew up and attended local schools. He went to work at an early age at the local shoe shops in town. He was employed at the Portsmouth…

Obituary: Doreen M. Walker

Doreen M. Walker, 75, passed away on December 14, 2022 at Wentworth Douglass Hospital in Dover, NH. She was in the presence of family and surrounded by love. She was born on November 26, 1947 in Providence, RI, the daughter of Mary Garcia Goulart and Wilburn Turner. She was raised in Bristol, RI and graduated from Colt Memorial High School. Shortly thereafter she moved to Sanford, ME. Doreen was a great cook (her Portuguese dish peppers and chourico was the…

Obituary: Chester P. Avery

Chester Pike (Spike) Avery, Jr. passed away on Thursday, September 8, 2022, at his home in Alexandria, Virginia. He was 85 years old. Chet was born on August 1, 1937, in Sanford, Maine to florists Chester Sr. and Gladys Avery. At the age of 16, he began to lose vision in his left eye, and he became fully blind at the age of 17. After attending the Carroll Center for the Blind, he returned to complete high school in his…