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MOUNT DESERT — Adolph Fuerst passed away Jan. 14, 2012 surrounded by his family. He was born in Linz, Austria and came to the United States in 1939 to escape from Hitler.
MOUNT DESERT — Juliana Patience “Patsy” von Kienbusch Little, 86, daughter of Carl Otto von Kienbusch and Mildred Clarke Pressinger von Kienbusch, died at Birchwoods at Canco in Portland on Jan. 17, 2012. She was born Jan. 17, 1926, in New York City.
MOUNT DESERT – Helen James, 90 died Jan. 22, 2012 in Bar Harbor. She was born July 9, 1921 in Lyman, Maine, the daughter of Milton and Ida Douglas. She was one of six children of which only one brother survives her.
BAR HARBOR – After a brief illness Dorothy Vivian Easterlind, 87, died at Mount Desert Hospital on Jan. 19, 2012. Dorothy was born Oct. 21, 1924 in Lynn, Mass. to Davis and Selena Nickerson; she had seven brothers and sisters.
Grace Paine Abbott, whose ancestors arrived in America aboard the Mayflower and who was a descendant of some of the first settlers of Bar Harbor, died at age 97 on Jan. 19, 2012 at Sonogee healthcare facility.
SULLIVAN Beloved wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend, Angela Marie Whalen, 36, a lifetime resident of Hancock County, passed away Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, in Ellsworth. Angela was born Sept. 24, 1975, in Ellsworth, to Amos M. and Jeannie M. (Willey) Kelley.
SARASOTA, FLA. Glenda Chambers Whitney, of Sheffield Greene Circle, Sarasota, Fla., passed away unexpectedly Jan. 17, 2012, at Sarasota Memorial Hospital following heart surgery. Glenda was born April 29, 1936, in Bath, N.Y., to parents Donald and Lena Chambers.
BAR HARBOR — James “Jimmy,” MacLeod, who spent more that five decades running businesses and being involved in politics here, died on Jan. 21 in a Bangor hospital. He was 87 years old.
BAR HARBOR — Ned Ballatori, who for more than 25 years had been a seasonal investigator at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL), died on Christmas Day in Rochester, N.Y. after a courageous struggle with a rare form of cancer, angiosarcoma.
