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Game wardens pulled the bodies of two anglers out of Grand Falls Flowage in Baileyville on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.

At approximately 3:45 p.m. on Friday, game wardens were notified of an unoccupied boat drifting in the Washington County lake, and upon arrival found an aluminum bass boat with a motor and fishing lines in the water but no one in the boat, according to a news release from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

Wardens and volunteers searched the area. Around 4:30 p.m., a volunteer found the body of Charlotte Evans, 67, of Cibolo, Texas, approximately 100 yards from shore.

Wardens soon learned there was another person in the boat, and continued searching but were unable to locate anyone else on Friday. Resuming the search on Saturday, warden divers found the body of Douglass Bass, 67, of Agawam, Massachusetts. Neither of the victims were wearing life jackets.

The two bodies were taken to Mays Funeral Home in Calais and will be examined by a state medical examiner. The deaths are not considered suspicious.

Sophie is a community reporter for Cumberland, Yarmouth, North Yarmouth and Falmouth and previously reported for the Forecaster. Her memories of briefly living on Mount Desert Island as a child drew her...