On January 24, Bowdoin friend Edmund Benjamin died at the age of 86 while at Laurel Point Health and Rehabilitation Center in Fort Pierce. Benjamin was not a Maine native?he was born in Grenada, West Indies?and yet he spent many of his last years here, working as a security officer in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art until he retired in 1999. He was also the manager and operator of Benji's Bar at the Stowe House in Brunswick.
"He was a great man and anyone who ever met him loved him and enjoyed him," said his niece Lynn Stevenson.
"He was valued at the museum. He was known for singing and used to sing at the Stowe House after he came here from Granada," she said.
Services will be held on February 4 at 11 a.m. at the Byrd, Young, and Prill Port St. Lucie Funeral Home.