Eastham "Bud" GUILD Jr.

GUILD, Eastham "Bud", Jr. (94+) passed away on Wednesday, 25 November 2009 at his assisted living home in Brunswick, Maine. Buddy, and his wife of 67 years, Mary Newell Guild, were long time residents of the Bath, West Bath, and the Brunswick areas. He was born on May 20th 1915 in Newton, Massachusetts to Olive Boyd Guild, and Eastham Guild, Sr. Olive Boyd, and her sister Eleanor Boyd Hyde, wife of John Holmes Hyde of Bath, were the daughters of Charles M. Boyd who owned, and operated a woolen business in South Boston. Eastham Guild, Sr. was the son of Chester Guild of Boston whose family had been in the leather goods business in the area; leather in those days was like synthetics are today. Bud's early schooling was varied because his mother moved quite often. He attended Governor Dummer Academy, Browne and Nichols, and Choate to name but a few. He attended an ROTC camp at Fort Washington in Washington, DC after his high schooling which was at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, PA where he graduated. He attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick but left the school in 1939 in his senior year; he was a member of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity at Bowdoin. In October of 1939, Buddy married the former Mary Newell, daughter of William S. "Pete" Newell, and Caroline Moulton Newell of Bath. During World War II Buddy worked at Submarine Signal Company in Boston a firm that produced SONAR equipment for the US Navy's war efforts. Bud and Mary lived in Marblehead, Massachusetts for the first six years of their marriage. Bud and Mary (Mamie to all her friends) moved to Bath right after the war to a home at 1083 Washington Street which they sold in the late 60's when they moved to West Bath. After arriving in Maine, Buddy, and an old friend, Howard Mayo, established a laundry business, named Hygeia Laundry, in Wiscasset. Both he and Howard learned early in that career that they were not cut out to wash clothes, and the business was shut down after only a few years. Bud later joined the Bath Iron Works and worked in the production and planning department until 1964 when he retired. During the 1950's, Bud served two terms on the Bath City Council. He was also active in the Grace Episcopal Church, and when the old church at Middle, and Oak Streets was torn down, he served as the Church's representative (OR) during the construction of the new building, located just south of Sumner Sewall's home on Washington Street on the site of a former Sewall home. Bud loved the Marine Maritime Museum and spent over 20 years volunteering in its early years when it was known as the Bath Marine Museum, and later in its new research library under its present name and "new" location at the former Percy & Small Shipyard. Buddy is predeceased by his sister Olive "Ollie" Guild, who died when she was about eight of scarlet fever, his wife Mary Newell Guild, his mother Olive Boyd Guild, and father Eastham Guild, Sr. He is survived by his daughter Olive Boyd Guild of Conroe, Texas and West Bath, son William Newell "Pete" Guild and his wife Sandy of West Bath, and Tucson, Arizona, two grandchildren, Britton Newell Guild of Phippsburg, and Moriah Elizabeth Guild of Tulsa, plus (at the moment) two great grandchildren, Noah, and Alli. Buddy is also survived by his close and dearest cousin Sally Hyde Knights of Portland. Neither Buddy, nor his wife Mamie wanted any formal services; their remains will be scattered in the waters off their former home in West Bath this coming summer. Buddy asked that any remembrances to him be sent to the Maine Maritime Museum in his, and Mamie's memory.