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Donald Webster Obituary
PORTLAND -- The Very Rev'd Donald Andrew Webster, of Peaks Island, a former Dean of St. Luke's Cathedral in Portland, died suddenly on April 11, 2011. Father Webster retired from St. James Parish, St. James, Long Island, N.Y., where he had served since leaving the Cathedral in 1981. He and his wife Priscilla moved to Peaks Island in 1989.
In retirement, he has served the Church in various capacities, most recently as Business Manager of St. Luke's. In addition he was one of the founders of the Peaks Island Land Preserve, treasurer of the Casco Bay Health Center, and was president twice of the Peaks Island Neighborhood Association.
Father Webster was born on May 24, 1924, in Evansville, Ind., where his father, Andrew T. Webster, was in charge of the Music Department of the Evansville schools. His mother, Marcia Warren, was a former Buffalo, N.Y., school teacher.
After his father's death in 1929, he and his mother moved to Buffalo, where she was employed as a teacher and he attended local schools. He graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1948, having served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
Upon graduation he was employed as a civil engineer by the Delaware and Hudson Railroad. He was ordained a priest in 1955 and served parishes in Vermont before coming to Maine in 1974.
In addition to his wife, the former Priscilla Belt, he is survived by four children, Barbara Webster Black and her husband Peter of Honohina, Hawaii, Andrew Thomas Webster II of Pahoa, Hawaii, Elisabeth Marsh Webster of Bowdoinham, and Elizabeth Belt Webster of Gloucester, Va.; and two grandsons, Andrew Thomas Webster III of Buffalo, N.Y., and Chandler Donald Webster of Burt, N.Y.
Services will be at St. Luke's Cathedral on Saturday, April 16, at 10 a.m. Arrangements are under the guidance of Independent Death Care, 660 Brighton Ave., in Portland. To offer words of condolence to the family, sign a guest book and share memories, go to the obituary page at www.independentdeathcare.com
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St. Luke's Cathedral
143 State St.
Portland, Maine 04101
Donald Andrew Webster
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Memories and Condolences
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Jo Israelson
April 18, 2011
Priscilla:
You are in my thoughts. I am so sorry for your loss.
Joyce & Dan Doane
April 16, 2011
Our thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of grief. May your memories bring you comfort.
April 15, 2011
My prayers are with you, Priscilla,and your family. Don is at peace and I know you will greatly miss him.
Sally Bates Allen
Lynn Schauer-Bewley
April 14, 2011
Peace and prayers to you, Priscilla, and to the children. I am glad to have known Don - he was a fine man.
Jeanne Adamson-Sawtelle
April 14, 2011
Blessed sleep Rev. Webster. My thoughts and prayers are with you, Priscilla, he was a good man.
Janet Farrington (Anderson)
April 14, 2011
A fine servant of God.
A good strong bass singer in the Peaks Island choir.
A good ear for listing to others woos.
Rest In Peace, my friend.
Caralen MacKenzie-Hicks
April 14, 2011
My most sincere condolances to you and your whole family. I have so many wonderful memories of Don but the picture I have that will always stick in my mind of him of Don in his coveralls working in the garden or driving the wooden-bodied truck down Island Ave. His quiet manner and dedication to doing God's work in so many ways has been and will continue to be an inspiration.
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