Eldbjorg “Ella” Mjelstad died Dec. 8, 2022 at the Gorham House.

Penelope Poor, 74, passed away on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

James Elwood Brown, of Riga, Mich., passed away on the morning of Dec. 28, 2022 after a brief illness at the age of 83.

After a valiant 11-year battle with brain cancer, on the evening of Dec. 22, 2022 at 5:08 p.m., Jameson Walker Brooks gained his angel wings and flew to heaven. Jameson passed away, surrounded by love and care, in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Barbara Bush Hospital.

Paul Sproul, 73, of Round Pond, passed away Dec. 28, 2022, at home surrounded by family.

Mona Elizabeth (Farrin) Taylor, 97, of Portland, died peacefully, surrounded by family on Dec. 18, 2022 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough.

Mary “Bushy” Bushnell Pearce Henry, 102, of Tuckerman Ave., Middletown, R.I. and South Bristol, passed away on Dec. 24, 2022, in the St. Clare Home in Newport, R.I. She was the wife of the late Eugene Baker Henry, USN, Ret.

Chris Sproul passed away peacefully on Dec. 9, 2022 just two weeks before her 86th birthday. Born Dec. 23, 1936 to Alton and Lotta Hills Dickinson, she lived her entire life in Boothbay, graduating from Boothbay Harbor High School in 1955. She married Jim Sproul in 1956 and together they raised their children, Mike and Jackie.

Virginia Howes White “Mrs. Gardner W.,” a proper-yet-independent Bostonian woman, who had lived in the house of her birth for 100 years, began the journey towards her next adventure on Dec. 14, 2022. At the time of her passing, Mrs. White was enjoying the beauty of this year’s newly arrived Christmas tree, artfully decorated with a collection of ornaments gathered across the decades.

Randall Clark Lee, 75, peacefully passed away on Dec. 19, 2022 surrounded by his family. Born Dec. 26, 1946 in Damariscotta, he was the second of four children born to Clarence and Frances (Cook) Lee.

Ernest Thorne Thompson Jr., aka “Tommy Thompson,” 94, of Damariscotta, passed away at his home on Dec. 25, 2022. He was born in South Bend, Ind. on Nov. 9, 1928, the only child of Ernest T. Thompson Sr., and Florence M. Thompson.

Valarie took an easy breath and danced into a beautiful, heavenly garden greeted by her Savior Jesus Christ, her boy, Caleb, her daddy, Tom and countless other souls she couldn’t wait to see again. She slipped peacefully from this world in the arms of her loved ones.