Ruth Jones Applin, 100, of Wiscasset, died Aug. 25 at her residence. She had the Boston Post Cane for Wiscasset.

Sean C. Forde, 75, of Bremen, passed away on Aug. 25 at home with his wife by his side. The cause of death was lymphoma.

Ernest H. Giles Jr., 69, of Boothbay, passed away peacefully Aug. 24 at home with his beloved family at his side.

Carl Craig Creamer, 63, passed away with his family by his side at LincolnHealth – Miles Campus in Damariscotta on Aug. 21.

Lillyanne Creamer, 87, a lifelong resident of Lincoln County, passed away peacefully at her granddaughter’s home in Jefferson on Aug. 14.

Herbert William “Sam” Birch, 84, passed away after a long illness on Aug. 17 in Coopers Mills.

Neil Andrew Prior, 43, formerly of New Harbor, passed away after a brave and hard fought battle against a rare form of cancer, on the afternoon of Aug. 15 at the Hope Hospice House in Cape Coral, Fla.

Daniel Eugene Benner, 35, of Waldoboro, passed away unexpectedly Aug. 20. He was born Jan. 2, 1982.

Marni Mae Lawson, 68, of Waldoboro, passed away at the Sussman House in Rockport on Aug. 19.

Judith Svea (Carlson) Moreau, 76, of Franklin, Mass., passed away suddenly on Aug. 18 at Milford Regional Medical Center after a brief illness. She was the widow of her beloved soul mate Ernest R. Moreau, a.k.a. Bumpa.  

Betty Crocker, of Coopers Mills, left this life Aug. 20 surrounded by her four children. Betty was born May 7, 1946, the youngest child of Delbert F. and Inez R. Sproul Brann.

Ann D. Severson, 89, of Jefferson, passed away at Cove’s Edge surrounded by her loving family on Aug. 19.