She helped found GLSEN Southern Maine and was instrumental in creating about 90 gay-straight alliance groups in high schools across Maine.

At the height of his career, he made bread for an estimated 200 to 300 businesses at the East Bayside bakery.

He is best known for intricate carvings that depict images of wildlife, including a prayer staff presented to former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

She ran the real estate side of the business she and her former husband opened on Congress Street in Portland in 1975.

‘She worked long days and on weekends. Whenever she was called upon, she would go,’ said her daughter Robyn Oliver.