Everett Arthur Strout

Cumberland Center- EVERETT ARTHUR STROUT, 86, died Friday, Sept 23, 2011 at Mercy Hospital in Portland. He was born at St. Barnabas Hospital in Portland on Oct 24, 1924, the son of Andrew Everett Strout and Gertrude Marion Farnham. Everett earned his Eagle Scout badge, graduated from Deering High School in 1941 and attended the University of Maine at Orono. He then graduated from Maine Maritime Academy in the class of 1943-2. Then it was off to war in the U.S. Coast Guard's Merchant Marine during WW II, traveling in a convoy in the Atlantic as an Asst. Engineer on the Liberty ships. Everett received an Honorable Discharge in 1945. While attending a USO dance in Antwerp, Belgium he met his future wife, Martha J. F. Bosschaert. They were married

Oct 30, 1948 in Portland and moved around the state as his career dictated.

Everett worked at a woolen mill in Vassalboro; then over to Stockton Springs where he began his career as an engineer in a chemical plant. In 1955 it was back to southern Maine where he trained at Mason Station in Wiscasset for Central Maine Power's new Cousin's Island Steam Plant from which he retired as Shift Supervisor in 1984. He

was also a volunteer fireman in Cumberland.

Everett enjoyed sailing throughout Casco Bay and along the coast of Maine. He built his family's summer camp in the 1960's at Kettle Cove in Casco where he spent many hours boating and fishing on the lake. Everett enjoyed steam engines, building train models, steamboats, radio-controlled models and carving birds. He could be found at steam

meets and Antique Power Association displays all over the state as well as Lees Mills, NH. He enjoyed breakfast at the counter at Cole Farms and Saturday night bean suppahs.

He was a member of the Vassalboro Masonic Lodge Neguemkeag #54; Cumberland Congregational Church, Portland Marine Society, Freeport Elders Association, Cumberland Historical Society, Cumberland Fire Department, Greater Portland RC

Boaters and Maine Maritime Academy's Alumni Association.

He was predeceased by his wife Martha in 2004, twin sons Charles Everett & James Arthur shortly after their birth in 1951; his father Andrew in 1967; his mother Gertrude in 1988. He is survived by his son Allen (Marilyn) of Otisfield & Harpswell, Maine; two granddaughters: Kelly Strout of Otisfield and Lindsay Strout of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; his younger brother Earl F. (Beverly) of Lyme, New Hampshire; his cousin Richard Jordan of Apopka, FL; and three nieces.

At his request, there will be no funeral service. Interment at Moss Side Cemetery in Cumberland will be private. Please visit www.lindquistfuneralhome.com to share your condolences, memories and tributes with his family.

Those who wish to remember Everett, may make a donation in his memory to: The

Cumberland Historical Society, P.O. Box 82, Cumberland, ME 04021 or Maine Maritime Academy, Development Office, Pleasant St, Castine ME 04420.