BATH – Newell Albert Avery, 91, died Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006, at Hillhouse Assisted Living, Bath. He was born May 1, 1915, in Brewer, a son of Albert Edward and Effie Ann (Lovell) Avery. He graduated from Bangor High School in 1933 and from the University of Maine – Orono in 1937 with a bachelor’s degree in English. He also attended the Bangor School of Commerce from 1937 to 1939. He was employed as a bookkeeper for Charles Hayward and Co. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II for four years, serving in northern Africa, Italy and the Pacific, where he earned the Bronze Star. He was employed by the Bangor Daily News as a proofreader. From 1948 to 1955, he was employed as a reporter, copy editor and assistant editor at the Cape Cod Standard-Times, Hyannis, Mass. In 1955 he returned to Bangor to care for his parents and was employed at the Bangor Patriot before returning to the Bangor Daily News as copy and telegraph editor and assistant news editor, retiring in 1980. In 1982 he moved to Bath to be near his sister, Margaret Avery Lawrence and her family. He volunteered for many years at the Maine Maritime Museum, Bath. Mr. Avery was intensely interested in trains and ships. He enjoyed music, traveling, photography and left a photographic record of the changing Bangor cityscape. He is survived by his brother-in-law, Roy I. Lawrence of Brunswick; two devoted nieces, Deborah Malone and her husband, David, of Boston and Barbara Yuodsnukis and her husband, Anthony, of Brunswick; great-nephews and great-nieces, Michael Malone, Kathleen Malone vanReijendam, Joel Yuodsnukis, Alan Yuodsnukis and their children, Alesa, Emily, Katherine and Jennifer Yuodsnukis and Luke and Elisabeth vanReijendam. There are no services. Burial will be at Maple Grove Cemetery, Prospect. Memorial contributions may be made to the Maine Maritime Museum, attention Linda MacMillian, 243 Washington St., Bath, ME 04530. Arrangements are by Mayo, Curtis & Hill Funeral Home, 819 High St., Bath.
NEWELL ALBERT AVERY
