Clark “Woody” Freeman, Jr., of Wiscasset, died unexpectedly while working outside his home July 21. He was well known and well loved by his family and countless others whose lives he touched in Wiscasset and surrounding communities.
Born Sept. 18, 1946, the son of Clark and Helen Freeman, he grew up in Randolph, Mass. He attended schools in Randolph, Mass. until his family moved to Wiscasset in 1962, the hometown of his father and grandfather.
Woody graduated from Wiscasset High School in 1964 and worked for several years in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire before returning to Maine and Wiscasset. He married Susan Sutter in 1969 and they had two children, Elizabeth and Noah.
In 1983 he married Pamela Cowing Moore, and became the father of Sarah and later Kathy.
To describe Woody as an active presence in the town of Wiscasset and greater community would risk understatement. Following employment at BNAS, he served as Wiscasset s town mechanic, Wiscasset Schools Transportation Director, Road Commissioner, and most recently as the supervisor and resident garbalogist of the Wiscasset transfer station. He was sometimes known as Wiscasset’s garbage guru.
He was a member of St. Philips Church, Boy Scout troop leader in Wiscasset for over 20 years, a current officer in the Lincoln Lodge #3 A.F. & A.M. and is a past Master of the Lodge.
Woody was widely known in Wiscasset and throughout the greater mid-coast community. He had an inexhaustible curiosity and encyclopedic range of practical knowledge and skills, which he was always willing to share good-naturedly with others, day or night, regardless of the time. Along with his support, encouragement and expertise, his dry wit and good humor could always be depended upon to help get one through any emergency, real or imagined. Woody was the rare person who could make you feel better just by being around him. The mention of his name around Wiscasset inevitably prompts smiles of recognition, and at least one story about how Woody was helpful in one situation or another.
He was predeceased by his parents Clark and Helen Freeman and a sister Nancy Lee Freeman.
Woody is survived by his wife, Pamela Freeman; son, Noah Freeman of Wiscasset; daughters, Elizabeth Freeman of Livermore, Sarah Tavares of Ogunquit, and Kathy Freeman of Wiscasset; grandchildren, Ava and Molly Tavares and Luke Clark Stinson-Freeman; and sisters, Claire Bradley of North Andover, Mass., Cindy Freeman Cyr of Dover Foxcroft, and Susan Braley of Franklin.
Service at St. Philips 11 a.m., Fri., July 25 for family and church members. Immediately following, there will be a service for the community held at Wiscasset High School at 1 p.m. There will be a reception following the community service. All are welcome and invited to share and celebrate Woody s life.
Memorial contributions may be sent to St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, 12 Hodge St., Wiscasset, ME 04578 or to Lincoln Lodge #3 A.F. & A.M., 17 Fort Hill St., Wiscasset, ME 04578.
Arrangements are by Daigle Funeral Home, 40 Federal St., Wiscasset.
