obit – Page 19 – The Portland Press Herald

Paul Soule, 78, Maine sports legend and former teacher and coach

Soule, of North Yarmouth, set records in both football and track and was a member of the Maine Sports Hall of Fame.

A gifted painter, he was perhaps as well known for teaching his students how art informs lessons about life.

He helped develop and implement the curriculum of the university’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, where he taught from 1978 to 2011.

He planned and developed several subdivisions in town, including the Merrifield Drive neighborhood.

He was diagnosed last year with with ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and ended his life under Maine’s Death With Dignity law.

He practiced dentistry for nearly 50 years at his office on Auburn Street.

She worked in several restaurants in Portland and on Martha’s Vineyard.

Her family says she died when she fell and hit her head while walking a neighbor’s dog on a trail in Cape Neddick.

She’s one of just eight Mainers who have died from COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated.

Mr. Cressey operated W.C. Cressey & Son Inc., a school bus distributor that he and his father started in a spare bedroom-turned-office space in 1979.