CLYDE PAGE, 83, POPULAR FIGURE IN CUMBERLAND
Clyde "Stan" Page of Cathy Lane, a beloved animal control officer, died unexpectedly Nov. 8, 2000, at a Portland hospital. He was 83.
A gentle, easygoing man who loved animals, Mr. Page became Cumberland's animal control officer in 1983. Although it was only a part-time job, he routed the animal control phone calls to his house and remained on call 24 hours a day.
Mr. Page loved dogs and was loved by them, his friends and family said. He knew all the animals in town, and would drop them off at their homes when he found them wandering around. He never had to chase loose dogs -- they all came to him. "They just hopped in his van. It was not a problem," said Klara Norton, the town clerk in Cumberland.
Committed to getting all the dogs in his town licensed, Mr. Page often called or dropped by residents' homes to offer a friendly reminder about getting their dogs registered with the town. "And they would. They'd run right down and get their tags," said his stepson, Wilfred L. Edwin III.
Mr. Page was a popular, beloved figure in Cumberland. "He had so many friends you couldn't count them," said his wife, Fern Page.
When the local police department got its own "cop cards," it was Mr. Page's card that ran out the fastest. "They had to keep getting extra cards because all the kids wanted his cards," said Edwin.
Mr. Page was born in Westbrook, a son of Clyde and Dorothy Rankin Page. He graduated from Fryeburg Academy in 1936 and from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy when he was 68.
He served in the Coast Guard Reserves during World War II.
Mr. Page owned and operated a sawmill in conjunction with the Diamond Match Co. for several years, and worked as a machinist for the L.C. Andrew Co. and for the Falmouth Public Works Department for 10 years, retiring in 1980.
A life member of the Casco Masonic Lodge, he also was a communicant of St. Gregory's Catholic Church in Gray and a reserve officer with the Cumberland Police Department.
Mr. Page enjoyed hunting and fishing.
A "Jack-of-all-trades" and an inventor, he made his own riding lawn mower and cement mixer. He also built boilers, hydraulic log splitters and other mechanical devices for friends and family.
Surviving are his wife, Fern Crouteau Page of Cumberland; a son, Donald of Gorham; three stepsons, Wilfred L. Edwin III of Lyman, Gerald Edwin of Belmont, N.C., and Joseph Edwin of Pembroke Pines, Fla.; two sisters, Florence Kimball of Hiram and Arlene Hebert of West Buxton; a brother, Gordon of Woburn, Mass.; three grandchildren; 10 stepgrandchildren and eight great-grand- children.
Visiting hours will be 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at Lindquist Funeral Home, 1 Mayberry Lane, Yarmouth, where a funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday. Burial will follow in Blanchard Cemetery, Falmouth.
Portland Press Herald (ME) - Friday, November 10, 2000
Clyde "Stan" Page of Cathy Lane, a beloved animal control officer, died unexpectedly Nov. 8, 2000, at a Portland hospital. He was 83.
A gentle, easygoing man who loved animals, Mr. Page became Cumberland's animal control officer in 1983. Although it was only a part-time job, he routed the animal control phone calls to his house and remained on call 24 hours a day.
Mr. Page loved dogs and was loved by them, his friends and family said. He knew all the animals in town, and would drop them off at their homes when he found them wandering around. He never had to chase loose dogs -- they all came to him. "They just hopped in his van. It was not a problem," said Klara Norton, the town clerk in Cumberland.
Committed to getting all the dogs in his town licensed, Mr. Page often called or dropped by residents' homes to offer a friendly reminder about getting their dogs registered with the town. "And they would. They'd run right down and get their tags," said his stepson, Wilfred L. Edwin III.
Mr. Page was a popular, beloved figure in Cumberland. "He had so many friends you couldn't count them," said his wife, Fern Page.
When the local police department got its own "cop cards," it was Mr. Page's card that ran out the fastest. "They had to keep getting extra cards because all the kids wanted his cards," said Edwin.
Mr. Page was born in Westbrook, a son of Clyde and Dorothy Rankin Page. He graduated from Fryeburg Academy in 1936 and from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy when he was 68.
He served in the Coast Guard Reserves during World War II.
Mr. Page owned and operated a sawmill in conjunction with the Diamond Match Co. for several years, and worked as a machinist for the L.C. Andrew Co. and for the Falmouth Public Works Department for 10 years, retiring in 1980.
A life member of the Casco Masonic Lodge, he also was a communicant of St. Gregory's Catholic Church in Gray and a reserve officer with the Cumberland Police Department.
Mr. Page enjoyed hunting and fishing.
A "Jack-of-all-trades" and an inventor, he made his own riding lawn mower and cement mixer. He also built boilers, hydraulic log splitters and other mechanical devices for friends and family.
Surviving are his wife, Fern Crouteau Page of Cumberland; a son, Donald of Gorham; three stepsons, Wilfred L. Edwin III of Lyman, Gerald Edwin of Belmont, N.C., and Joseph Edwin of Pembroke Pines, Fla.; two sisters, Florence Kimball of Hiram and Arlene Hebert of West Buxton; a brother, Gordon of Woburn, Mass.; three grandchildren; 10 stepgrandchildren and eight great-grand- children.
Visiting hours will be 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at Lindquist Funeral Home, 1 Mayberry Lane, Yarmouth, where a funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday. Burial will follow in Blanchard Cemetery, Falmouth.
Portland Press Herald (ME) - Friday, November 10, 2000
CLYDE PAGE, 83, POPULAR FIGURE IN CUMBERLAND
Clyde "Stan" Page of Cathy Lane, a beloved animal control officer, died unexpectedly Nov. 8, 2000, at a Portland hospital. He was 83.
A gentle, easygoing man who loved animals, Mr. Page became Cumberland's animal control officer in 1983. Although it was only a part-time job, he routed the animal control phone calls to his house and remained on call 24 hours a day.
Mr. Page loved dogs and was loved by them, his friends and family said. He knew all the animals in town, and would drop them off at their homes when he found them wandering around. He never had to chase loose dogs -- they all came to him. "They just hopped in his van. It was not a problem," said Klara Norton, the town clerk in Cumberland.
Committed to getting all the dogs in his town licensed, Mr. Page often called or dropped by residents' homes to offer a friendly reminder about getting their dogs registered with the town. "And they would. They'd run right down and get their tags," said his stepson, Wilfred L. Edwin III.
Mr. Page was a popular, beloved figure in Cumberland. "He had so many friends you couldn't count them," said his wife, Fern Page.
When the local police department got its own "cop cards," it was Mr. Page's card that ran out the fastest. "They had to keep getting extra cards because all the kids wanted his cards," said Edwin.
Mr. Page was born in Westbrook, a son of Clyde and Dorothy Rankin Page. He graduated from Fryeburg Academy in 1936 and from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy when he was 68.
He served in the Coast Guard Reserves during World War II.
Mr. Page owned and operated a sawmill in conjunction with the Diamond Match Co. for several years, and worked as a machinist for the L.C. Andrew Co. and for the Falmouth Public Works Department for 10 years, retiring in 1980.
A life member of the Casco Masonic Lodge, he also was a communicant of St. Gregory's Catholic Church in Gray and a reserve officer with the Cumberland Police Department.
Mr. Page enjoyed hunting and fishing.
A "Jack-of-all-trades" and an inventor, he made his own riding lawn mower and cement mixer. He also built boilers, hydraulic log splitters and other mechanical devices for friends and family.
Surviving are his wife, Fern Crouteau Page of Cumberland; a son, Donald of Gorham; three stepsons, Wilfred L. Edwin III of Lyman, Gerald Edwin of Belmont, N.C., and Joseph Edwin of Pembroke Pines, Fla.; two sisters, Florence Kimball of Hiram and Arlene Hebert of West Buxton; a brother, Gordon of Woburn, Mass.; three grandchildren; 10 stepgrandchildren and eight great-grand- children.
Visiting hours will be 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at Lindquist Funeral Home, 1 Mayberry Lane, Yarmouth, where a funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday. Burial will follow in Blanchard Cemetery, Falmouth.
Portland Press Herald (ME) - Friday, November 10, 2000
Clyde "Stan" Page of Cathy Lane, a beloved animal control officer, died unexpectedly Nov. 8, 2000, at a Portland hospital. He was 83.
A gentle, easygoing man who loved animals, Mr. Page became Cumberland's animal control officer in 1983. Although it was only a part-time job, he routed the animal control phone calls to his house and remained on call 24 hours a day.
Mr. Page loved dogs and was loved by them, his friends and family said. He knew all the animals in town, and would drop them off at their homes when he found them wandering around. He never had to chase loose dogs -- they all came to him. "They just hopped in his van. It was not a problem," said Klara Norton, the town clerk in Cumberland.
Committed to getting all the dogs in his town licensed, Mr. Page often called or dropped by residents' homes to offer a friendly reminder about getting their dogs registered with the town. "And they would. They'd run right down and get their tags," said his stepson, Wilfred L. Edwin III.
Mr. Page was a popular, beloved figure in Cumberland. "He had so many friends you couldn't count them," said his wife, Fern Page.
When the local police department got its own "cop cards," it was Mr. Page's card that ran out the fastest. "They had to keep getting extra cards because all the kids wanted his cards," said Edwin.
Mr. Page was born in Westbrook, a son of Clyde and Dorothy Rankin Page. He graduated from Fryeburg Academy in 1936 and from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy when he was 68.
He served in the Coast Guard Reserves during World War II.
Mr. Page owned and operated a sawmill in conjunction with the Diamond Match Co. for several years, and worked as a machinist for the L.C. Andrew Co. and for the Falmouth Public Works Department for 10 years, retiring in 1980.
A life member of the Casco Masonic Lodge, he also was a communicant of St. Gregory's Catholic Church in Gray and a reserve officer with the Cumberland Police Department.
Mr. Page enjoyed hunting and fishing.
A "Jack-of-all-trades" and an inventor, he made his own riding lawn mower and cement mixer. He also built boilers, hydraulic log splitters and other mechanical devices for friends and family.
Surviving are his wife, Fern Crouteau Page of Cumberland; a son, Donald of Gorham; three stepsons, Wilfred L. Edwin III of Lyman, Gerald Edwin of Belmont, N.C., and Joseph Edwin of Pembroke Pines, Fla.; two sisters, Florence Kimball of Hiram and Arlene Hebert of West Buxton; a brother, Gordon of Woburn, Mass.; three grandchildren; 10 stepgrandchildren and eight great-grand- children.
Visiting hours will be 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at Lindquist Funeral Home, 1 Mayberry Lane, Yarmouth, where a funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday. Burial will follow in Blanchard Cemetery, Falmouth.
Portland Press Herald (ME) - Friday, November 10, 2000
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