YARMOUTH – Lawrence Bowman Sturtevant, 76, a public schoolteacher for 32 years, of Cousins Island, Yarmouth, passed away Aug. 9 after a valiant year-long struggle with cancer.

Born in Waltham, Mass., 1931, he was the son of Henry B. and Jennie (Oates) Sturtevant. He was educated in public schools in Concord, Mass., and was a graduate of Concord High School, Class of 1949.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Farmington State Teachers College in Farmington in 1953. He also did graduate work at Boston University. He first taught in Plainfield, N.J. He later taught in Massachusetts, Michigan, Colorado and California. His last position was at Yarmouth Intermediate School, where he taught and directed student dramas and was school librarian. Upon retirement, he became president of the Hebron Historical Society (Maine), and was a volunteer for the Maine Old Cemetery Association. Most recently he helped to facilitate a potluck gathering in West Minot for relatives of former employees and patients of the Western Maine Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Hebron. He also collaborated in a publication about the sanatorium due out later this summer.

He was active in high school plays and productions of South Portland’s Lyric Music Theater and the Portland Players in the 60s and 70s. He enjoyed golf, and held memberships in national and Maine Education Associations, and Peace Action Maine. From his home, for a number of years, he ran Yankeeland Books, specializing in Maine books. He was an associate member of Maine Veterans for Peace.

He was predeceased by a brother in 1943, and leaves two brothers, H. Bradford of Newburyport, Mass., and Thomas C. of Winthrop; a sister, Nancy Hansen of Natick,, Mass.; and several cousins, nieces and nephews.