Claude E. Wiley, Jr. Obituary (1935

TENANTS HARBOR - Claude E. Wiley, Jr., 74, died Sunday, October 25, 2009 at Maine Medical Center in Portland. Born in Tenants Harbor, March 5, 1935, he was the son of Claude, Sr. and Rosalie Levecque. Mr. Wiley lived on the family homestead property his entire life, attending local schools and church within a half mile of his home. He was a 1953 graduate of St. George High School and entered the US Air Force in 1954. After serving a four year enlistment, he returned to his Tenants Harbor home. In October, 1961, he married Lucille Stone in York. Mrs. Wiley died September 2, 1999. In earlier years, Mr. Wiley worked at Pratt & Whitney. For more than 25 years he was employed as a union carpenter , supervisor and foreman on many New England projects, including the Samoset Resort, Maine Yankee Power Plant, Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant, and various paper mill projects, many of which were in Millinocket. After his retirement in the early 90s, he began lobstering out of Tenants Harbor, first aboard the 'Lucille S.' and then the 'Linda Rose'. On June 23, 2001, he married Linda Cushman in Port Clyde. In his earlier years, he had an avid interest in entomology, earning the name 'Bugsy'. He was happiest when he could spend time on 'the Point' with family and friends. In his younger years he played baseball on the St. George Twilight League, graduating to the annual 'St. George Old Timers' game. He always enjoyed watching the boats come and go in the harbor and working in his shop. He enjoyed taking care of animals particularly feeding birds. He had three wild geese who became regular visitors to his home and he also fed two seagulls, which he named 'Gertrude' and 'Eclaire'. He also kept many cats over the years, and love smelting, clamming and hunting. He was a longtime member of the IOOF, the Advent Christian Church in Port Clyde, and the Thursday Night Men's Bible Study, and continued as a member of the carpenter's union. Other than his first wife, Mr. Wiley was predeceased by his brother Edgar Hoyt Wiley in 1989. He is survived by his wife, Linda of Tenants Harbor; three daughters, Claudette R. Wiley and her fiancA(c) Stephen E. Davis both of Warren, Lana McPherson and her husband William of Mt. Vernon, Jane Gledhill and her husband Howard of Bloomsburg, PA; one son, Preston L. Wiley, Jr. and his wife Laura of Tenants Harbor; Linda's children whom he considered his own, Randy Cushman and his wife Melony, Dennis Cushman and his wife Rosemary, Gerald Cushman and his wife Karan, Michael Cushman and his fiancA(c)e Katie Nelson all of Port Clyde; one sister, Loa Lee Wiley Blake of Tenants Harbor;; 17 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; two nieces and a nephew. Visiting hours will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 Friday, October 30th at Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home, 110 Limerock Street, Rockland. A funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday at Tenants Harbor Baptist Church with the Reverends Greg Twitchell, Bill Hickey and Douglass Anderson officiating. Interment with military honors will follow at Seaside Cemetery. Those who wish may make memorial donations to St. George Firefighters and Ambulance Assn., P. O. Box 249, Tenants Harbor, ME 04860, or Port Clyde Advent Christian Church, P. O. Box 305, Port Clyde, ME 04855.2b:[