CANDACE LOUD SAWYER

PORTLAND – Candace Loud Sawyer, 93, died Jan. 17, 2006, at Falmouth By The Sea, where she had been a patient since last year. She lived in Portland since the mid 1980’s, when she moved there to be near her sister after her husbands’ death. Prior to that time she and her late husband, Charles Haven Sawyer lived in Edgecomb. Mrs. Sawyer was a writer, artist and historian. With her sister, Laura Orcutt, she won an award from the American Association of State and Local History for the publication of -The Journals of John Edwards Godfrey. The Journals were a history of 19th century Bangor as seen though the eyes of her grandfather, a Bangor Judge and founder of the Bangor Historical Society. She subsequently published The Civil War Letters of Capt. John Franklin Godfrey, with the help of Maine historians, James Vickery and William Barry. When she was 87, Mrs. Sawyer had a show of her collages at the Maine Art Museum. That same year she published a humorous essay in The Maine Times. Mrs. Sawyer and her late husband were from old Bangor families. Both her father, Herbert Richardson Loud, and her mother, Ethel Godfrey Loud, were Bangor natives. Her father was a Beaux Arts trained architect who worked with Warren and Wetmore in New York on the design of Grand Central Station. Her mother was a poet and short story writer. Candace Loud was born and grew up in New York City, spending summers at her grandmothers’ Bangor home. She attended Traphagen and the Art Students League. Prior to her marriage she worked briefly in advertising in Manhattan. Mrs. Sawyer and her husband, a Bowdoin graduate, retired to Edgecomb after raising a family in upstate New York. Many local artists painted with “Candy” in her studio on the Sheepscott River. She actively supported the arts in the area, including the Maine Art Museum in Wiscasset. She and her sister started Yankee Pedlar Day, a fundraiser for the Lincoln County Historical Society that continued for many years. She is survived by a daughter, Caroline Sawyer Peterson (Mrs. Leonard) of Weston, Conn.; two sons, Dick Sawyer of Edgecomb and Steve Sawyer of Dillsberg, Pa.; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The family plans to have a memorial service in May.