ISLAND FALLS – Harold “Ted” Parker died Friday, July 14, 2006, at Hawthorne House in Freeport. He was born in 1920, in Caribou, the third child of Margaret (West) Parker and Harold G. Parker. He attended school in Masardis and, in the early years of his adult life, farmed with his father in that same town. During World War II, he continued to farm but worked the winter months at the Colt Weapons facility in Hartford, Conn., where he was a precision machinist working on gunnery for the war effort. He married his wife, Captola Milton in 1943, and soon after moved to Oakfield, where he began working for the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad. He held various jobs at the company until becoming a general yardmaster in the early 1960s, a position he held until his retirement in 1985. He and his wife divided their retirement years together between the family cottage on Pleasant Pond, Island Falls and Lake Panasoffkkee, Fla. He was a member of the Island Falls Masonic Lodge No. 206 for more than 50 years, enjoyed hunting and fishing, became a maker of fly rods and tied flies in his retirement years. He was an avid gardener his whole life and loved being at the cottage on the pond most of all. He was predeceased by his wife, Captola (Milton) Parker, in 1990. He is survived by his daughter, Linda Mayer and her husband, John, of Saco; his daughter, Gale Jackson and her husband, Steve, of Atwater, Calif.; his son, Greg Parker of Portland; his four sisters, Velma Craig of Old Town, Elsie Libby Gibson of Portage, Phyllis Harris of Mapleton and Doris Kneher of Merced, Calif.; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Friends may call 2-3 p.m. Sunday at Bowers Funeral Home, 10 Water St., Houlton, with funeral services beginning at 3 p.m. Immediately after the service there will be a gathering at the United Methodist Church, 28 School St., Houlton. Interment will be in Caribou and the family has requested there be no graveside service. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations may be made to the Maine Audubon Society, 20 Gilsland Farm Rd., Falmouth, ME 04105 www.maineaudubon.org
HAROLD ‘TED’ PARKER
