Obituaries

Leslie Albert McNelly was born in Smyrna, Maine, on Sept. 5, 1940, the son of Harold Edgar and Mabel Anne (Lilley) McNelly. He grew up in Dyer Brook, Maine, with his brothers, Edwin Lyle and Glenn Eugene, and died at the age of 84 at home with family on Bailey Island in Harpswell, Maine, on Nov. 12, 2024, after a battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Leslie Remick Bradbury, of Harpswell, the wife of the late David George Bradbury for 62 years, passed away on May 30, 2025.

William David Jack II, M.D., 84, died suddenly on May 24. He was the son of Ralph Willis Jack, M.D., and Ruth Garland Jack, and was born Feb. 15, 1941, in Miami Beach, Florida.

Katherine passed away peacefully at home in Harpswell on May 18, 2025, next to the ocean she loved dearly. She was a unique and caring mother, sister, "GRM K," aunt, daughter, wife and friend, and had a special interest in all things intellectual, as evidenced by the many stimulating conversations she initiated.

John I. Bibber, aged 62, of Harpswell, Maine passed away unexpectedly at Midcoast Hospital on April 8, 2025.

James "Jim" Henderson died suddenly in Harpswell on April 18, 2025. Jim was born in the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens, New York, on June 27, 1941, to Francis B. Henderson, a dock worker during World War II, and Helen (Dane) Henderson, a daughter of recent Polish immigrants.

Susan Marie Radomski, 75, of Orr's Island, Maine, died peacefully at home on McMaster Lane on April 12, 2025, shortly after being diagnosed with a brain tumor.

John Clement Davis III, known to many as Jock, was born on April 5, 1935, in Norwalk, Connecticut, and spent most of his 90 years in Harpswell, Maine. He passed away peacefully, though unexpectedly, on April 7 at Maine Medical Center, surrounded by his loving family.

"There goes Fred, trying something new," Fred said when asked to write his obituary in 2020.

Susan Elizabeth "Sue" Bailey passed away peacefully on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at The Highlands in Topsham, Maine, following a valiant 10-month fight against lung cancer and a metastatic brain tumor.