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Monday, March 27, 2017I am devastated,” Bevins said of Lilley’s death when contacted Sunday night by the Portland Press Herald.In 2013, Lilley represented Mark Strong Sr., a defendant in the Zumba prostitution scandal in Kennebunk. Strong was found guilty in York County Superior Court of 12 counts of promotion of prostitution and one count of conspiring to promote prostitution. Prosecutors argued that Strong and Zumba instructor Alexis Wright worked together.Tina Heather Nadeau, a Portland-based criminal defense attorney, served as Lilley’s co-counsel in the Zumba case, which attracted national attention. Even in a case as difficult as that, Nadeau said Lilley’s sense of humor remained intact.Nadeau said she remembers conferring in private with Lilley about arguing a motion before Superior Court Justice Nancy Mills.“I remember telling Dan that it would be proper to use the word ‘whorehouse’ in court because Shakespeare used it, and that it would lend potency to the argument that the johns had no valid expectation of privacy when they visited the studio to engage a prostitute in sexual acts for money. When court resumed, he dropped that bomb in his argument, which made Justice Mills’ eyebrows reach her hairline. He chuckled about that one for a few days,” Nadeau said in an email.Nadeau said she was surprised when she heard that Lilley had died. His reputation as one of the state’s best defense attorneys gave him an aura of invincibility.“I never for a moment thought that anyone on earth would outlive him,” Nadeau said Sunday night. “I was convinced he would live forever.”Amber Tucker worked with Lilley for the past two years as his senior associate counsel. Tucker worked as co-counsel with Lilley on his last case, representing Matthew Davis of Houlton during his murder trial in Machias. Davis was convicted in December in the shooting deaths of an Oakfield couple at their home three years ago.“He was a wonderful mentor and friend,” Tucker said in an email. “Dan took his obligations to his clients very seriously, always making them a priority.”She said Lilley’s law firm in Portland “is dedicated to ensuring a smooth transition” for his clients. “In that spirit, the staff will be in the office tomorrow and personally reaching out to each client, assuring them that they continue to be a priority. He will be greatly missed by all of us.”Schwartz noted that another one of Maine’s leading criminal defense attorneys died last year. Peter DeTroy III, 68, of Portland died of cardiac arrest while riding his bike near his home.Lilley’s obituary was not available Sunday, but Bailey said Lilley’s family informed him that there will not be a traditional funeral service.“There will be some type of celebratory event down the road,” Bailey said.According to Lilley’s LinkedIn page, he graduated from the Boston University School of Law in 1967. He is the owner of the Daniel G. Lilley Law Offices, 39 Portland Pier, which is located on the Portland waterfront.Dennis Hoey can be contacted at 791-6365 or at:[email protected]...
Monday, November 28, 2016Maine State Police on Sunday identified the man who survived a violent southbound crash Friday afternoon on the Maine Turnpike in Kennebunk that took place before a northbound collision in which two people died.Tyler Brown, 22, of Portland was treated for multiple injuries at Portsmouth Regional Hospital in New Hampshire following the southbound crash, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.Brown was discharged on Saturday, according to a hospital spokeswoman.Meanwhile, the family of Wyatt Peter Frost – the 5-year-old Lyman boy killed in the subsequent turnpike collision about 2 miles from the Kennebunk crash – described him in an obituary submitted Sunday to the Portland Press Herald as a happy boy who loved life.McCausland said in a news release Sunday that Brown lost control of his sport utility vehicle while he was driving southbound on the turnpike at a high speed.McCausland said Brown’s SUV veered across three southbound lanes before striking the median guardrail. The force of the crash ripped the motor from the SUV. Brown, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown th...
Monday, July 04, 2016Decoteau’s affection for Broadway show tunes and relayed a story of how he caught the attention of former President and First Lady George and Barbara Bush when he was regaling friends in a bar in Kennebunkport, Maine. Boyle read aloud a letter from the Bush family mourning Decoteau’s death, saying “our loss is heaven’s gain … we can only imagine the singing and dancing going on there right now.”Another mourner at Friday’s service was Christine Ward of Ludlow who doesn’t belong to the Belchertown parish but often attends services there because of her affection for Decoteau going back to when she wrote him a letter about a family crisis she was going through. “He replied in a personal and beautiful way; he was a wonderful man,” she said.Tom Barry, a parishioner who was at the service as part of the Knights of Columbus honor guard, called Decoteau “an incredible man.” Barry told of how when he was about to start treatment for throat cancer three years ago, Decoteau said a prayer for him during the Sunday service but quickly added that doing so was not enough. “He told me to come to the rectory and he gave me a bottle of holy water from Lourdes,” referring to a town in France known to Catholics as a place of healing.“He made everyone feel special,” said Barry.Rev. Michael Pierz, who said he knew Decoteau well, having come to the Belchertown parish 10 months ago as a Parochial Vicar, called him “a priest’s priest” who had a “great love for and devotion to the official part of the church and the divine promise.”Pierz said he was able to pray with Decoteau shortly before he died and was able to see first hand the love his parishioners had for him. “He baptized entire generations and then married them,” said Pierz. “There are so many young parishioners who are so upset because they can’t believe that the priest who baptized them, gave them first holy communion, prepared them for confirmation and they were planning to have him marry them, unfortunately passed away, they couldn’t believe that.”Before coming to Belchertown, Decoteau served as pastor of the former Blessed Sacrament Parish in Northampton from 1992 to 1996, according to the diocese.He served as an assistant priest at St. Mary Parish in Westfield from 1975-1979 and also was chaplain for the Newman Community at Westfield State College from 1976-1979.Decoteau taught at Cathedral High School from 1979 to 1982 and then earned a master’s degree in liturgy fro...
Monday, June 27, 2016III, died in 2006. She leaves her children, Mary A. Lasher and her husband, William of Lebanon, Ohio. William F. Lavigne and his wife, Kathleen of Dudley and Barbara L. Dacri and her husband Rick of Kennebunk, Maine; four grandchildren, Jennifer Hearn, Bill Lavigne, Joe Lasher, and Michael Dacri; five great grandchildren, Will Lavigne, Keira Hearn, Aurora Lavigne, Arabella Lavigne, and Elizabeth Lasher; also survived by many nieces and nephews, including Joyce Marcelonis. She was born in Northbridge, daughter of the late Francis and Etienette (Sansoucy) Lange. Blanche attended Classical High School in Worcester. Blanche was a member of North American Martyr’s Church and the Auburn Senior Center.Relatives and friends are invited to attend a funeral Mass celebrating Blanche’s life on Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 10 AM in the North American Martyr’s Church, 8 Wyoma Drive, Auburn. Memorial donations may be sent to the Patient’s Activity Fund at the Life Care Center of Auburn, 14 Masonic Circle, MA 01501.
Timothy Hussey, 59, businessman wrote about lessons of illness - The Boston Globe
Monday, June 27, 2016Hussey Seating Co.'s 175th anniversary celebration in 2010.Last Nov. 26, far enough along into a cancer diagnosis to know it might be his final Thanksgiving Day, Tim Hussey stepped outside his Kennebunk, Maine, home to walk along Parsons Beach “at sunrise, at dead low tide. Simply glorious, and I was glad to be alive,” he wrote in his blog.Reaching below the water’s surface he found a metaphor. “The sailor in me knows that navigators always prefer to enter harbors at low tide, as the rocks and reefs are exposed,” he wrote. “We are not blind to what lies under the high tide, just waiting to expose itself later. Low tide allows us to see reality more clearly.”He recorded the reality he saw that morning in a blog that ranged widely, touching on his life as a successful businessman and his richer life as a family man, his spiritual explorations before and after his 2014 diagnosis, and the insights he drew from the coastal waters that had sustained him since boyhood.“When we are at our internal high tide of peace and stillness, all seems good with the world. But our human condition means these moments don’t last forever, just as the moon inevitably pulls the waters out of the rivers and bays. Our own low tid...
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Monday, March 27, 2017I am devastated,” Bevins said of Lilley’s death when contacted Sunday night by the Portland Press Herald.In 2013, Lilley represented Mark Strong Sr., a defendant in the Zumba prostitution scandal in Kennebunk. Strong was found guilty in York County Superior Court of 12 counts of promotion of prostitution and one count of conspiring to promote prostitution. Prosecutors argued that Strong and Zumba instructor Alexis Wright worked together.Tina Heather Nadeau, a Portland-based criminal defense attorney, served as Lilley’s co-counsel in the Zumba case, which attracted national attention. Even in a case as difficult as that, Nadeau said Lilley’s sense of humor remained intact.Nadeau said she remembers conferring in private with Lilley about arguing a motion before Superior Court Justice Nancy Mills.“I remember telling Dan that it would be proper to use the word ‘whorehouse’ in court because Shakespeare used it, and that it would lend potency to the argument that the johns had no valid expectation of privacy when they visited the studio to engage a prostitute in sexual acts for money. When court resumed, he dropped that bomb in his argument, which made Justice Mills’ eyebrows reach her hairline. He chuckled about that one for a few days,” Nadeau said in an email.Nadeau said she was surprised when she heard that Lilley had died. His reputation as one of the state’s best defense attorneys gave him an aura of invincibility.“I never for a moment thought that anyone on earth would outlive him,” Nadeau said Sunday night. “I was convinced he would live forever.”Amber Tucker worked with Lilley for the past two years as his senior associate counsel. Tucker worked as co-counsel with Lilley on his last case, representing Matthew Davis of Houlton during his murder trial in Machias. Davis was convicted in December in the shooting deaths of an Oakfield couple at their home three years ago.“He was a wonderful mentor and friend,” Tucker said in an email. “Dan took his obligations to his clients very seriously, always making them a priority.”She said Lilley’s law firm in Portland “is dedicated to ensuring a smooth transition” for his clients. “In that spirit, the staff will be in the office tomorrow and personally reaching out to each client, assuring them that they continue to be a priority. He will be greatly missed by all of us.”Schwartz noted that another one of Maine’s leading criminal defense attorneys died last year. Peter DeTroy III, 68, of Portland died of cardiac arrest while riding his bike near his home.Lilley’s obituary was not available Sunday, but Bailey said Lilley’s family informed him that there will not be a traditional funeral service.“There will be some type of celebratory event down the road,” Bailey said.According to Lilley’s LinkedIn page, he graduated from the Boston University School of Law in 1967. He is the owner of the Daniel G. Lilley Law Offices, 39 Portland Pier, which is located on the Portland waterfront.Dennis Hoey can be contacted at 791-6365 or at:[email protected]...
Monday, November 28, 2016Maine State Police on Sunday identified the man who survived a violent southbound crash Friday afternoon on the Maine Turnpike in Kennebunk that took place before a northbound collision in which two people died.Tyler Brown, 22, of Portland was treated for multiple injuries at Portsmouth Regional Hospital in New Hampshire following the southbound crash, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.Brown was discharged on Saturday, according to a hospital spokeswoman.Meanwhile, the family of Wyatt Peter Frost – the 5-year-old Lyman boy killed in the subsequent turnpike collision about 2 miles from the Kennebunk crash – described him in an obituary submitted Sunday to the Portland Press Herald as a happy boy who loved life.McCausland said in a news release Sunday that Brown lost control of his sport utility vehicle while he was driving southbound on the turnpike at a high speed.McCausland said Brown’s SUV veered across three southbound lanes before striking the median guardrail. The force of the crash ripped the motor from the SUV. Brown, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown th...
Monday, July 04, 2016Decoteau’s affection for Broadway show tunes and relayed a story of how he caught the attention of former President and First Lady George and Barbara Bush when he was regaling friends in a bar in Kennebunkport, Maine. Boyle read aloud a letter from the Bush family mourning Decoteau’s death, saying “our loss is heaven’s gain … we can only imagine the singing and dancing going on there right now.”Another mourner at Friday’s service was Christine Ward of Ludlow who doesn’t belong to the Belchertown parish but often attends services there because of her affection for Decoteau going back to when she wrote him a letter about a family crisis she was going through. “He replied in a personal and beautiful way; he was a wonderful man,” she said.Tom Barry, a parishioner who was at the service as part of the Knights of Columbus honor guard, called Decoteau “an incredible man.” Barry told of how when he was about to start treatment for throat cancer three years ago, Decoteau said a prayer for him during the Sunday service but quickly added that doing so was not enough. “He told me to come to the rectory and he gave me a bottle of holy water from Lourdes,” referring to a town in France known to Catholics as a place of healing.“He made everyone feel special,” said Barry.Rev. Michael Pierz, who said he knew Decoteau well, having come to the Belchertown parish 10 months ago as a Parochial Vicar, called him “a priest’s priest” who had a “great love for and devotion to the official part of the church and the divine promise.”Pierz said he was able to pray with Decoteau shortly before he died and was able to see first hand the love his parishioners had for him. “He baptized entire generations and then married them,” said Pierz. “There are so many young parishioners who are so upset because they can’t believe that the priest who baptized them, gave them first holy communion, prepared them for confirmation and they were planning to have him marry them, unfortunately passed away, they couldn’t believe that.”Before coming to Belchertown, Decoteau served as pastor of the former Blessed Sacrament Parish in Northampton from 1992 to 1996, according to the diocese.He served as an assistant priest at St. Mary Parish in Westfield from 1975-1979 and also was chaplain for the Newman Community at Westfield State College from 1976-1979.Decoteau taught at Cathedral High School from 1979 to 1982 and then earned a master’s degree in liturgy fro...
Monday, June 27, 2016III, died in 2006. She leaves her children, Mary A. Lasher and her husband, William of Lebanon, Ohio. William F. Lavigne and his wife, Kathleen of Dudley and Barbara L. Dacri and her husband Rick of Kennebunk, Maine; four grandchildren, Jennifer Hearn, Bill Lavigne, Joe Lasher, and Michael Dacri; five great grandchildren, Will Lavigne, Keira Hearn, Aurora Lavigne, Arabella Lavigne, and Elizabeth Lasher; also survived by many nieces and nephews, including Joyce Marcelonis. She was born in Northbridge, daughter of the late Francis and Etienette (Sansoucy) Lange. Blanche attended Classical High School in Worcester. Blanche was a member of North American Martyr’s Church and the Auburn Senior Center.Relatives and friends are invited to attend a funeral Mass celebrating Blanche’s life on Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 10 AM in the North American Martyr’s Church, 8 Wyoma Drive, Auburn. Memorial donations may be sent to the Patient’s Activity Fund at the Life Care Center of Auburn, 14 Masonic Circle, MA 01501.
Timothy Hussey, 59, businessman wrote about lessons of illness - The Boston Globe
Monday, June 27, 2016Hussey Seating Co.'s 175th anniversary celebration in 2010.Last Nov. 26, far enough along into a cancer diagnosis to know it might be his final Thanksgiving Day, Tim Hussey stepped outside his Kennebunk, Maine, home to walk along Parsons Beach “at sunrise, at dead low tide. Simply glorious, and I was glad to be alive,” he wrote in his blog.Reaching below the water’s surface he found a metaphor. “The sailor in me knows that navigators always prefer to enter harbors at low tide, as the rocks and reefs are exposed,” he wrote. “We are not blind to what lies under the high tide, just waiting to expose itself later. Low tide allows us to see reality more clearly.”He recorded the reality he saw that morning in a blog that ranged widely, touching on his life as a successful businessman and his richer life as a family man, his spiritual explorations before and after his 2014 diagnosis, and the insights he drew from the coastal waters that had sustained him since boyhood.“When we are at our internal high tide of peace and stillness, all seems good with the world. But our human condition means these moments don’t last forever, just as the moon inevitably pulls the waters out of the rivers and bays. Our own low tid...
