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Bouchard R L Funeral Home

11 Tamarack Street

Millinocket, ME 04462

(207) 723-4000

Dowd JAS G Funeral Home

17 Westwood Avenue

Millinocket, ME 04462

(207) 746-3817

Lamson Funeral Home

11 Tamarack S

Millinocket, ME 04462

(207) 723-4000

Millinocket ME Obituaries and Death Notices

Donn Fendler, Who Was Lost in Wilds of Maine as a Boy, Dies at 90 - New York Times

Thousands of mothers sent prayers by Western Union to the boy’s mother. Boy Scouts joined the search, along with workers from the Millinocket paper mill. The New York State Police dispatched two of their best bloodhounds by air.Hearts sank when Donn’s footprints disappeared at the edge of a sheer 400-foot precipice called Saddle Slip. “I’m still trying to make myself believe there’s a faint thread of hope,” his despondent father, Donald, told The Boston Globe.Spirits lifted when new footprints appeared near the mountain’s base two days later.Finally, on the ninth day, a miracle.“Stripped naked by eight days of fearful battling with the Maine wilderness on the slopes of mile-high Mount Katahdin, Donn Fendler came back to civilization this afternoon — wan, cruelly bitten and scratched, delirious with joy at hearing a human voice again,” The Globe reported on July 26, under the headline “Boy Found in Maine Wilds.” The national ordeal was over.Donn Fendler died on Sunday in Bangor, Me., his son, Dennis, said. Mr. Fendler was 90.The Fendlers, from Rye, N.Y., had spent the previous four summers vacationing on Sebasticook Lake in Newport, in the center of Maine. On July 17, Donald Fendler and his sons, Ryan, Donn and Tommy, Donn’s twin, headed out after lunch to ascend Mount Katahdin, at 5,267 feet the state’s highest peak. They were accompanied by Henry Condon, the 17-year-old son of a local guide, and Fred Eaton, a young family friend.Eager to climb, Donn left his father and brothers behind, pushing on with Henry and Fred, when bad weather set in. “Just as we rea...

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Donn Fendler, Who Was Lost in Wilds of Maine as a Boy, Dies at 90 - New York Times

Thousands of mothers sent prayers by Western Union to the boy’s mother. Boy Scouts joined the search, along with workers from the Millinocket paper mill. The New York State Police dispatched two of their best bloodhounds by air.Hearts sank when Donn’s footprints disappeared at the edge of a sheer 400-foot precipice called Saddle Slip. “I’m still trying to make myself believe there’s a faint thread of hope,” his despondent father, Donald, told The Boston Globe.Spirits lifted when new footprints appeared near the mountain’s base two days later.Finally, on the ninth day, a miracle.“Stripped naked by eight days of fearful battling with the Maine wilderness on the slopes of mile-high Mount Katahdin, Donn Fendler came back to civilization this afternoon — wan, cruelly bitten and scratched, delirious with joy at hearing a human voice again,” The Globe reported on July 26, under the headline “Boy Found in Maine Wilds.” The national ordeal was over.Donn Fendler died on Sunday in Bangor, Me., his son, Dennis, said. Mr. Fendler was 90.The Fendlers, from Rye, N.Y., had spent the previous four summers vacationing on Sebasticook Lake in Newport, in the center of Maine. On July 17, Donald Fendler and his sons, Ryan, Donn and Tommy, Donn’s twin, headed out after lunch to ascend Mount Katahdin, at 5,267 feet the state’s highest peak. They were accompanied by Henry Condon, the 17-year-old son of a local guide, and Fred Eaton, a young family friend.Eager to climb, Donn left his father and brothers behind, pushing on with Henry and Fred, when bad weather set in. “Just as we rea...