WIFE OF JOHN F MEIGS
Ruth B. Meigs, 78, of Orland died Tuesday at a Bangor hospital. She was born at home in Steuben, a daughter of Walter Eastman Brown and Velma Sherman Haskell Brown, and grew up in Stillwater and Bucksport. In 1937, she graduated from Bucksport High School and in 1940 from Gorham Normal School. She taught school in Rockland until her marriage in 1941 to Richard A. Goodridge.
During World War II she taught grades one through eight. In 1965, after the death of her first husband, she returned to college at Gorham State Teachers College, and earned her bachelor's degree in elementary education.
Mrs. Meigs loved to teach. Her favorite students were those in grades six and seven, and she enjoyed her years teaching reading and writing in Dixfield, Mexico and Rumford schools, until her retirement in 1979.
For several summers in the 1970s, she worked as a cook aboard the schooner Mercantile, sailing out of Camden.
In 1980, she married J. Franklin Meigs.
She was active in the Order of the Eastern Star, serving as worthy matron of Mount Zircon Chapter and as mother advisor of the Rumford Assembly, International Order of Rainbow for Girls. She held state offices for several years, and was elected to the position of worthy grand matron for the State of Maine in 1983-84. She served as trustee for the Grand Chapter Charities until her death.
Surviving are her husband of Orland; four daughters, Mrs. John (Karen) Curtis of Southport, Joanna Goodridge of Westbrook, Mrs. John (Patricia) Worth of Belfast and Mrs. Tyler (Ellen) Vickers of Washington; a son, Mark Goodridge of Palisades Park, N.J.; a stepson: Franklin Meigs of Prospect; a sister, Mrs. Harold (Joanne) Clough of York; a brother, Sherman Brown of Boothbay; nine grandchildren, two stepgrandchildren and two great-granddaughters. (Portland Press Herald 8/6/1997)
Ruth B. Meigs, 78, of Orland died Tuesday at a Bangor hospital. She was born at home in Steuben, a daughter of Walter Eastman Brown and Velma Sherman Haskell Brown, and grew up in Stillwater and Bucksport. In 1937, she graduated from Bucksport High School and in 1940 from Gorham Normal School. She taught school in Rockland until her marriage in 1941 to Richard A. Goodridge.
During World War II she taught grades one through eight. In 1965, after the death of her first husband, she returned to college at Gorham State Teachers College, and earned her bachelor's degree in elementary education.
Mrs. Meigs loved to teach. Her favorite students were those in grades six and seven, and she enjoyed her years teaching reading and writing in Dixfield, Mexico and Rumford schools, until her retirement in 1979.
For several summers in the 1970s, she worked as a cook aboard the schooner Mercantile, sailing out of Camden.
In 1980, she married J. Franklin Meigs.
She was active in the Order of the Eastern Star, serving as worthy matron of Mount Zircon Chapter and as mother advisor of the Rumford Assembly, International Order of Rainbow for Girls. She held state offices for several years, and was elected to the position of worthy grand matron for the State of Maine in 1983-84. She served as trustee for the Grand Chapter Charities until her death.
Surviving are her husband of Orland; four daughters, Mrs. John (Karen) Curtis of Southport, Joanna Goodridge of Westbrook, Mrs. John (Patricia) Worth of Belfast and Mrs. Tyler (Ellen) Vickers of Washington; a son, Mark Goodridge of Palisades Park, N.J.; a stepson: Franklin Meigs of Prospect; a sister, Mrs. Harold (Joanne) Clough of York; a brother, Sherman Brown of Boothbay; nine grandchildren, two stepgrandchildren and two great-granddaughters. (Portland Press Herald 8/6/1997)
WIFE OF JOHN F MEIGS
Ruth B. Meigs, 78, of Orland died Tuesday at a Bangor hospital. She was born at home in Steuben, a daughter of Walter Eastman Brown and Velma Sherman Haskell Brown, and grew up in Stillwater and Bucksport. In 1937, she graduated from Bucksport High School and in 1940 from Gorham Normal School. She taught school in Rockland until her marriage in 1941 to Richard A. Goodridge.
During World War II she taught grades one through eight. In 1965, after the death of her first husband, she returned to college at Gorham State Teachers College, and earned her bachelor's degree in elementary education.
Mrs. Meigs loved to teach. Her favorite students were those in grades six and seven, and she enjoyed her years teaching reading and writing in Dixfield, Mexico and Rumford schools, until her retirement in 1979.
For several summers in the 1970s, she worked as a cook aboard the schooner Mercantile, sailing out of Camden.
In 1980, she married J. Franklin Meigs.
She was active in the Order of the Eastern Star, serving as worthy matron of Mount Zircon Chapter and as mother advisor of the Rumford Assembly, International Order of Rainbow for Girls. She held state offices for several years, and was elected to the position of worthy grand matron for the State of Maine in 1983-84. She served as trustee for the Grand Chapter Charities until her death.
Surviving are her husband of Orland; four daughters, Mrs. John (Karen) Curtis of Southport, Joanna Goodridge of Westbrook, Mrs. John (Patricia) Worth of Belfast and Mrs. Tyler (Ellen) Vickers of Washington; a son, Mark Goodridge of Palisades Park, N.J.; a stepson: Franklin Meigs of Prospect; a sister, Mrs. Harold (Joanne) Clough of York; a brother, Sherman Brown of Boothbay; nine grandchildren, two stepgrandchildren and two great-granddaughters. (Portland Press Herald 8/6/1997)
Ruth B. Meigs, 78, of Orland died Tuesday at a Bangor hospital. She was born at home in Steuben, a daughter of Walter Eastman Brown and Velma Sherman Haskell Brown, and grew up in Stillwater and Bucksport. In 1937, she graduated from Bucksport High School and in 1940 from Gorham Normal School. She taught school in Rockland until her marriage in 1941 to Richard A. Goodridge.
During World War II she taught grades one through eight. In 1965, after the death of her first husband, she returned to college at Gorham State Teachers College, and earned her bachelor's degree in elementary education.
Mrs. Meigs loved to teach. Her favorite students were those in grades six and seven, and she enjoyed her years teaching reading and writing in Dixfield, Mexico and Rumford schools, until her retirement in 1979.
For several summers in the 1970s, she worked as a cook aboard the schooner Mercantile, sailing out of Camden.
In 1980, she married J. Franklin Meigs.
She was active in the Order of the Eastern Star, serving as worthy matron of Mount Zircon Chapter and as mother advisor of the Rumford Assembly, International Order of Rainbow for Girls. She held state offices for several years, and was elected to the position of worthy grand matron for the State of Maine in 1983-84. She served as trustee for the Grand Chapter Charities until her death.
Surviving are her husband of Orland; four daughters, Mrs. John (Karen) Curtis of Southport, Joanna Goodridge of Westbrook, Mrs. John (Patricia) Worth of Belfast and Mrs. Tyler (Ellen) Vickers of Washington; a son, Mark Goodridge of Palisades Park, N.J.; a stepson: Franklin Meigs of Prospect; a sister, Mrs. Harold (Joanne) Clough of York; a brother, Sherman Brown of Boothbay; nine grandchildren, two stepgrandchildren and two great-granddaughters. (Portland Press Herald 8/6/1997)
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