CAMDEN – Pamela Clare Greenman, 90, died Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004, at the Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport, as the result of a stroke she suffered several days earlier. Born in London, England in 1913, the daughter of Francis and Hilda (Strutt) Deverell. She had also lived in New Zealand, Denmark, Minnesota, Argentina, Belgium, New York, Montreal, Venezuela, France, and Portland, Maine before moving to Camden in 1987. Her husband of 58 years, Almon C. Greenman, a grain merchant with Cargill, Inc., died in 1997. After graduating from Cambridge University, she worked with author Owen Rutter to produce the first published edition of the ship’s log of H.M.S. “Bounty,” transcribing Captain William Bligh’s detailed handwritten record of the famous 1789 South Pacific voyage and its infamous mutiny. In the 1960s in Minnesota, she became politically active, working with the League of Women Voters to enact a Minneapolis metropolitan system of support for the public schools, where she also did volunteer work in remedial reading. In England, in the 1970s, she was active with the Conservation Society on environmental issues, and in the 1980s in Maine, she lobbied against nuclear weapons and nuclear power. She remained active for many years with the League of Women Voters of Maine. Known in Camden as “the woman who walks,” she took care of her ailing husband during the last 10 years of his life. She leaves a sister, Diana Wardlaw of London, England; four children, Elizabeth “Beedy” Parker of Camden, Michael Greenman of Westerville, Ohio, John Greenman of Old Town, and Peter Greenman of Union; a niece, Amanda Karpinski of Somerset, England; seven grandchildren, Jennifer Tingle, Penelope Tingle, Eleanor Parker, Natasha Brown, Sean Greenman, Margaret Greenman, and Gregory Greenman; and six great-grandchildren, Helen and William Cunningham, Celeste and Pepin Mittelhauser, Daniel Peterson, and Jacob Brown. There will be no funeral service. Instead of flowers, contributions in her memory may be made to the League of Women Voters of Maine Education Fund, P.O. Box 863, Augusta, ME 04332. To be notified of a memorial event to be held later, in warmer weather, call 236-8732.
PAMELA CLARE GREENMAN
