BANGOR and EASTPORT Louis Winfield Arnold was a quiet gentleman who died May 17, 2004. He was born Oct. 13, 1916, in Melrose, N.Y., the oldest child of the Rev. Irving Arnold and Alva Osborn. His sister, Ruth (Hatch) (Bates) was born eight years later. As a young man, he lived in Nahant, Mass., with his wife, Ella Royston and their three children, Gerald, Nancy (Anderson) (Norton) and John. Important events of that time were swimming, sailing, flying, MIT, General Electric, and owning several businesses: Cliftondale Tool and Die Co. and Leader and Yarmouth Oil Burner Co. In 1948, he married Ruth Needham and moved to Eastport. They had a daughter, Eleanor (Archer). In his early years in Eastport, he owned Quoddy Flight School and Quoddy Auto Body Shop. In the 1960s he became Eastport’s city manager. After leaving city hall, he took the job as engineer at the Meddybemps relay station for Maine Public Broadcasting Co. In his retirement, he began a new business, Herring Finders, spotting fish from his airplane for the local fisherman. In 1976 he married Marie Franklin (Emery). After Marie’s death in 1998, he moved to Avalon Village in Hampden. He enjoyed walking in the woods, studying the stock market and being on a quiet, wooded hill overlooking the Penobscot River. In 2002 he moved to Ross Manor where he met a special friend, Laurie Beaulieu. He had six grandchildren, Lisa and Julie Arnold, Eric and John Anderson, John and Pattie Arnold, and Steven and Karen Archer. Louis asked to be remembered without ceremony. His ashes will be blowing in the wind over the water and woods of New England. A service of Memorial Alternatives, 1225 Broadway, Bangor.
LOUIS WINFIELD ARNOLD
