Martha McLain.
SEARSPORT Martha McLain of Searsport, Maine passed away on February 4, 2021 at the age of 87.
She was born Martha Frances Jones on June 8, 1933 to Hobart and Louise Jones of Darien, Connecticut and she spent most of her childhood there before the family moved to a farm in Sandy Hook, Connecticut in 1947. She attended Newtown High School where she was thankful that her father was NOT the principal, as had been the case in Darien.
In 1951 she married Hans Burkard and together they built a house in 1955, doing all of the work themselves.
Martha was a proud first and second grade and remedial reading teacher from 1962 through her retirement in 1997. Her first ten years were spent at Brookfield Elementary School, near the family home in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. The last twenty five were divided between Frankfort Elementary School and Stockton Springs Elementary School in Midcoast Maine. Later in her career she had students who were children of her earlier students