PAGE 4 SECTION 1 graveside burial service will be 1/1/2004 held next summer. Memorial do- nations may be made to the Ladies uaries Aid Society of Great Cranberry Is- land. BROOKS, Barbara Spurling CRANBERRY ISLES - Bar- bara Lincoln (Spurling) Brooks, 91, passed away Dec. 28, in Brunswick, from congestive heart failure. She was born Feb. 12, 1912, at Cranberry Isles, the daughter of Charles Samuel and Edna Mae (Hatfield) Spurling. She attended schools at Cranberry Isles and Calais, graduating from Calais Academy. For the past 34 years her pri- mary residences had been Ells- worth and Cranberry Isles. In fail- ing health for the last four years she resided in assisted living apart- ments at Ocean View in Falmouth and The Governor King Wing of The Highland in Topsham. She was primarily a homemaker. She taught school in Monmouth dur- ing the 1950s. She served for many years on the board of the Congre- gational Church on Great Cran- berry Island. She was a talented musician and artist. She played vi- olin in the Augusta Symphony; and sang in the choirs of the Con- gregational Church in Ellsworth, and the Baptist and Episcopal churches in Augusta. She was a volunteer worker in the Hancock County Meals for Me and Hospice programs. She was predeceased by her husband, Carl A. Brooks; one son, Edward S. "Ebbie" Brooks; her sis- ter, Louise H. Sorensen and her brother, Nelson E. Spurling. She is survived by one son and his wife, Carl N. and Patricia E. Brooks of Cranberry Isles, and by two grand- sons, Francis C. Brooks of Yarmouth and Carl N. Brooks II of Philadelphia, Pa. A memorial ser- vice will be held 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9, at the Fernald Funeral Chapel in 1 Somesville with the Rev. Robert C Benson officiating. A private a