16th annual Memorial/Honor Tree

To the Editor:
During the Advent Season since 2006, we have had an annual Memorial/Honor Tree on the front lawn of the Methodist Church located at 79 Main Street. Donors purchase a bulb in memory or in honor of someone they know. Many folks from Bethel as well as from other towns in Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida, New York, Rhode Island, North Carolina, and Indiana participated in this Church fundraiser. As you start to read the names listed in this letter, please take a moment and reflect on your memories of these individuals who have passed on and also recognize folks who are honored with a bulb in their name.

The following is the list of names who have bulbs glowing in their memory. Edwin Brown. Eva & Carl Swan, Ruth & Carl Brown, Cubby Swan, Beth Awalt, John Brown, Jim Cullop, Cynthia Riley, Neal Brown, Kevin Brown, Darry Brown, Marion Beaton, Richard, Lyndell, Stephen and David Carter. Barry Crommett. Bill Williams. Greg Tyler. Gailey Wheeler. Peter DellaValle. Ernest Angevine, Alberta Angevine, Richard Angevine, Elizabeth (Betty) Blake, Richard Douglass. Ruby Hanley. Albert and Alice Taylor. Archie L. Young and Jane B. Young, Joan Howe. Bill & Ethel Ward. Roy & Betty Lurvey. Tom Caton.

Walter Clark. Hope Allen. Luna Akers. Edward & Sylvia Fontaine. Ray & Joan Cole. Stan & Althea Brown. Dorothy Perkner. Ethel Synder. Albert & Margaret Ingram. Wilson & Carol Seward. Peter & Nancy McLaughlin. Fred Spencer. Donald & Arlene Brown. Herbert & Evelyn Nickerson. Carl & Ruth Brown. Sherman & Mabel Greenleaf. Sylvia D. Clanton, Mr. & Mrs. Norman B. Clanton. Lt. Col and Mrs.Sidney A. Dyke. Cindy Brooks DiBatista, Florine & Bud Bowden. Frank & Betty Lou Gingras. Muriel & Seymour Butters, Merrie Lee Butters Ojeda, Leah Deegan, Robert & Edna York. Herbert & Naomi Bean. Kay & Rodney Eames, Annie & Alanson Bowden Sr., Angelo & Annie Coletta. Assunta & Luigi Canestrari. Bonnie Bowden, Terri Nicolella.

Richard Belisle. Edmund Butler. Maude & Herbert Bean. Jennie & Harvey Jones. Adelaide & Wendell Gibbs. Jamie Blake. Mary Lou Cole. David Nagle. Barbara White, Julie Fauvel. Auntie Val Crew. Gary Olson. Richard & Hulda Stevens. Ranald & Sarah Stevens, Barbara Brown, Sheila Rollins. Sharon Shilba. Judy Barker. Brian Douglass. Hilary Sanz, Dorothy Emery, Brandon Emery, Francis W. Mills. Arthur Head. Chester Hopkins. John O’Leary. Eric Gunther. Jorgen & Annie Olson. Phyllis W. Stevens. Doris Fraser. Ruth Wilkinson. Norman Ford. Gayland Dooen. Norma Ford Lawson. Harold Conner.

Matthew Poole. John Jr. & Carolyn Poole. Blake & Rachal MacKay. Betty Perkins. John & Lillian Delaney. Luna Welch. Connie Carlton. Bonnie Bowden. Mary Lou Cole, Doris Williamson Fraser. John Winslow, Phyllis Willaimson Stevens, Laurence & Lillian Kimball. Maud Grindle. Pat &Gladys Grenier. Arthur Kimball. Charlie Adams. Merle & Ruby Thompson. Hope Tibbetts. Brenda Wodka. Merle B. & Deborah J. White. Harold & Mildred White. Alden & Irene Wilson. Stanley & Terry Wilson. Mauriel Faudi. Eugene Currier. Rebecca Emens. Isaac & Jacob Emens, Beloved pets. Steve Collins. Ann West. Lights are also glowing in honor of Musa Brown, Nancy Brown, Edleen Winslow, Louisa Arbarno. Pastor Robin & Marc Chaput. Darlene Beck.

Nikki Viden. Linda Howe. Sister Bernadette Gautreau. Carlie Casey, Caro Poirer, Lauren Wallen, Michael & Judith Coletta. Valerie Bowden, Martha Berry. Rebecca & Moriah Palmer. Bonnie Pooley. Linda McDonagh. Jim St. Germain. John & Jeanette Poole. Gary Rumley. Bob Howe. Re-Pant Group. Community Annex Instructors. Bethel Freedom Group. Local Food Connection Group. Responsible Pet Care of Oxford Hills, and to remember the ones who are faced with hardships and other silent struggles.

Lights are shining brightly on Main Street in memory and in honor of the ones listed above in this letter. We hope the memories of the folks who have passed on bring peace to you at Christmas. On behalf of all the Church members at the Bethel United Methodist Church, we would like to thank all the donors who participated in this annual church fundraiser. Your support is a blessing to many.

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