PROMOTIONS Darci Hamm has been promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer at Norway Savings Bank. Hamm began her career with the Bank in 1999, and most recently served as executive vice president, senior retail banking officer. She has served on the Bank’s Culture Steering Committee and Culture Implementation Crew. Hamm has also […]
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Obituary: Ryan D. Fendler
FALMOUTH - As his light was dimmed by dementia, Ryan Fendler raged briefly, and then welcomed death peacefully at Gosnell Memorial .
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Ryan D. Fendler
FALMOUTH – As his light was dimmed by dementia, Ryan Fendler raged briefly, and then welcomed death peacefully at Gosnell Memorial Hospice Home in Scarborough, on April 30, 2021, at age 94. His daughter Nancy and son Michael were with him. Several grandchildren and friends were able to visit him in his last hours.Ryan grew up in a large family in Rye, N.Y., and spent several summers of his youth in Newport, Maine. He was the twin brother of Donn Fendler who famously survived being lost on Mt. Katahdin for nine days in 1939 when they were 12. Ryan was always proud to be the twin who didn’t get lost. He received some of his secondary school education at Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield, Maine and served in the Navy during WWII. He resumed his education after the war, met Ba