Sharon J. Edgett, 69, of Bath, died Thursday, January 10, 2008, at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick.

Born in Damariscotta on December 8, 1938, she was a daughter of George E. and Florence V. Carbone Giles. In 1957 she graduated from Boothbay Region High School.

On November 23, 1957 she married William 'Bill' F. Edgett Jr. in Boothbay.

Mrs. Edgett was an active communicant of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Bath and participated in many church social and fund-raising events. She was a member of the Daughters of Isabella and the Ladies Sodality.

For many years she and her husband traveled throughout New England in their vintage 1934 and 1938 Lincolns to attend antique car shows and enjoyed watching her grandchildren's sporting and school activities.

Survivors include her husband of 50 years; two daughters, Vickie L. and her husband Ken Lajoie of Brunswick and Ann M. and her husband Dale Carlton of Arrowsic; six grandchildren, Matthew Lajoie, Marcia Lajoie, Ryan Lajoie, and Kendra Lajoie all of Brunswick, Christopher and his wife Katie Carlton and Brian Carlton, all of Arrowsic; and many aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Memorial donations may be made to the St. Mary's Church Building Fund, 144 Lincoln St, Bath, ME 04530.

A mass of Christian burial was celebrated Wednesday, January 16, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Bath. Burial will take place at Oak Grove Cemetery, Bath, in the spring.

Arrangements are by David E. Desmond & Son Funeral Home, 638 High St., Bath.

Henry A. Morton, Sr., 74, passed away on the evening of January 12 th , at St. Andrews Hospital, Gregory Wing, of Chronic Lung Disorder, in Boothbay Harbor.

Born February 28, 1933, he was the only son of Samuel and Dorothy (Poland) Morton.

He earned his high school diploma and from 1956-1958 served honorably in the U.S. Army, during the final days of the Korean War.

An independent man, he worked as a lobsterman throughout his life, working with his father for many of those years. He also had several other trades, including toy making in Connecticut, serving as a flagman for Crooker Construction and working as a professional bartender.

Survivors include his seven children, Sclinda Bailey of Round Pond, Henry A. Morton, Jr. of Wiscasset, Fayette D. Morton of Brunswick, Calvin J. Morton of California, Terry Chase Moores of Texas, and Lisa M. Low of Bristol; his sister, Ethel Herald; 14 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

He was predeceased by his son Mark in 2000; and sisters, Ella, Alpha and Emma.

Friends are invited to be with the family, Saturday, January 19, from 2 to 4 p.m., at the Strong Funeral Home, 612 Main Street, Damariscotta.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Andrews Hospital, Gregory Wing, 145 Emery Lane, Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538.

David C. Nutt, 88, of Etna, N.H., died Thursday, January 10, in Hanover, N.H.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio on June 21, 1919, he was the son of Joseph Randolph Nutt and Elizabeth Hasbrouck Nutt. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Botany in 1941. In 1943 he married Babs Wright and they moved to Etna, N.H. in 1946.

From 1935 until 1940 he accompanied Captain "Bob" Bartlett to Greenland on the schooner Morrissey serving as a seaman, a navigator and a curator for the Smithsonian Museum. Upon graduating from Dartmouth College he served until 1943 as Executive Officer on the schooner USS Bowdoin in Greenland under Captain Donald MacMillan. He then served as Exec. and Commanding Officer on the USS Sumner, a Navy survey ship, and was involved in operations at Ulithi, (harboring 400 fighting ships classed destroyer and above), Guam, Iwo Jima, Leyte, Okinawa, Korea, China, and Bikini. At Iwo Jima, Nutt went ashore, climbed Mt. Suribachi, and found his old college roommate, Marine Captain Robert White, in a foxhole "while Hell's kitchen was flying overhead."

After the war he pursued a career in the Arctic. In 1948 he acquired the 100-ft schooner Blue Dolphin, which he based in Boothbay Harbor. She was refitted for Arctic oceanographic research and from 1949 to 1954 surveyed the fjords and estuaries of Labrador. This research resulted in a vital baseline for the thermal and compositional history of subarctic estuaries which contained cold Arctic bottom waters. Nutt and his crews also used dog teams and small boats. He later did research on the Greenland icecap and developed methods to determine the atmospheric conditions at the time the ice was formed. 

He was an Officer and later Chairman of the Arctic Institute of North America, was on the Board of Governors of the American Polar Society, the Board of Directors of the New England Grenfell Association, the Board of Directors and President of the Early Sites Foundation, the Board of Directors and President of the Aviation Association of New Hampshire and was an Honorary member of the American Polar Society and earned the Elisha Kent Kane Medal for Arctic Service.

He was a long-time member of the Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club and served as Commodore. David also was a Selectman in Hanover, N.H. and served several terms in the New Hampshire State Legislature. He retired from the United States Naval Reserve with the rank of Captain.

He and his wife, Babs, both experienced pilots, owned and operated the Post Mills Airport in Post Mills, Vermont for many years.

Survivors include six children, Mary Nutt of Socorro, N.M., Peggy Mitchell of Canaan, N.H., David Nutt, Jr. of Edgecomb, Patsy Decker of Salisbury, Md., Bill Nutt of Enfield, N.H. and Sally Nutt of McCall, Idaho; 12 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to a charity of one's choice.

Arrangements were made under the direction of Rand Funeral Home in Hanover, N.H.