Stanley Howard Eames

GARDINER – Stanley Howard Eames, 83, died Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. He was born August 12, 1941 in Bingham, Maine, the son of Stanley Baker Eames and Clara Eileen Bowen, in the home of his great aunts, Laura Baker and Geraldine Hanay, who lived on Preble Street.

He attended grammar school in Hallowell, Maine, and Hallowell High School, graduating in 1959. He then attended the University of Maine, graduating in 1965. It was at UM where he met his beloved wife, Nancy Cleaves, of New York City and Bar Harbor. They were communing with nature when he said, “Maybe we ought to think about getting married.” She set the date then. They were married June 18, 1966. She died of breast cancer in 1999.

Stan began working as a reporter at the Kennebec Journal in 1965. Pay was $80 per week. He worked there until 1978, when he began working at the Amsterdam Recorder in Amsterdam, NY as a wire editor, assistant managing editor, and managing editor, leaving there in 1983 for the Albany Times Union in Albany, NY.

Upon his grandfather’s death, the family decided to return to Maine in 1988, where Stan returned to the Kennebec Journal, and they bought a home in Hallowell, where they lived until Nancy’s death. Stan lived there for several more years until his brother, Peter, moved to Maine, bought a home in Gardiner, and they lived together until his passing.

Stan loved the Maine coast. His absolute favorite place was Pemaquid Point. However, if there was ocean near him, he was a happy man. His next most favorite place was Washington, DC and the surrounding area.

He was predeceased by his wife, parents, grandparents, sisters Hope MacFarland, Elizabeth Caldwell, and Christine Eames, sisters-in-law Lynda and Linda MacFarland, brother Russell B. Eames, and nephew Francis Santana.

He is survived by a daughter, Wendy M. Eames of Augusta, a son and daughter-in-law, Clayton and Jamie Eames of Gorham; a granddaughter, whom he adored, Kristen R. Pietri of Waterville; his great-grandson, Emmett MacKay Bumford; a sister, Kathrin M. Theberge and her husband Roger of Hallowell, a sister, Caroline Eames Brasler and her husband Kevin of Arlington, Va., brothers Peter C. Eames of Gardiner, Robert E. MacFarland of Farmingdale, and Michael L. MacFarland of Chelsea; many nieces and nephews, including David V. Helfrich of Oldsmar, Fla.; and his dear friends of “Lobster and Lies” fame.

Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to Stan’s visitation which will be held on Thursday, Nov. 14 from 5 – 7 p.m. at Knowlton Hewins Funeral Home, 1 Church St., Augusta. A funeral service will take place on Friday, Nov. 15 at 9 a.m. at Knowlton Hewins Funeral Home. Interment will be at Ledgelawn Cemetery, in Bar Harbor.

Arrangements and guidance are in the care of Knowlton & Hewins Funeral Home and Cremation Care, One Church Street, Augusta, Maine.

Condolences, memories, and photos may be shared with the family on the obituary page of the Knowlton & Hewins Funeral Home website, http://www.khrfuneralhomes.com.

The family welcomes donations to:

the Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine as an

expression of sympathy instead of flowers