- Kalloch, Norman Rice, Sr., St. George [ME] - Norman Rice Kalloch, 91, died Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001, at Penobscot Bay Medical Center, Rockport, after a brief illness. He was the husband of Norma Robbins Kalloch, who died in 1987. He was born at Warren, April 15, 1915, the son of Obediah B. and Juneta T. Hooper Kalloch. He attended Boston Latin School in Boston, and Rockland schools. He was a graduate of Rockland Commercial College. During World War II, he worked at Bath Iron Works. After the war, he went into the fuel and gasoline business in Rockland and operated a store on the corner of North Main Street and Broadway in the early 1950s. He was the founder of, and for the last 20 plus years of his career, he operated Kalloch Fuel Service. Kalloch Fuel Service became one of the largest fuel oil distributors in the local area. Norman was well liked by his customers. He was a very trusting person and would go out of his way to be sure people would have fuel oil, even if they couldn't pay. When he was an independent dealer, it was not unusual for him to provide heating oil to families of fisherman and others during the winter months and ask to be paid in the spring. Most customers appreciated his generosity. He was a member of Rockland Lodge No. 79 AF & AM, King Solomans Temple Chapter No. 8 in Rockland, Scottish Rite Bodies in Rockland, The Consistory in Portland, Kora Temple Shrine in Lewiston, Midcoast Shrine Club, a 55 year member of Weymouth Grange in Thomaston, a life member of Rockland Lodge of Elks, a member of Warren Oddfellows Lodge No. 127, a member and past president of Knox-Lincoln Fuel Dealers Assoc., a member of the Maine Fuel Dealers Assoc., president and chairperson of Midcoast Human Resources Council, director of the Rockland Chamber of Commerce, and he was chairman of the Cancer Drive of the Rockland business district. After retirement he spent many winters in Florida and summered in Saint George. Since October 1998, he had been a resident at Camden Health Care, where he received excellent care from a very dedicated nursing staff. He was predeceased by a daughter, Carolyn Kalloch; and companion Charlotte Flint. Survivors include one son, Norman R. Kalloch Jr. and wife Audry of Hampden; two daughters, Mrs. Cheryl and husband, Keith Miller of Spruce Head, Mrs. Sandy and Ray Boughton of Plano, Texas; one sister, Mrs. Eleanor Pendleton of Thomaston, several nephews, seven grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. There will be no visiting hours. A funeral will be held 2 p.m. Saturday at Davis Funeral Home, 35 Knox St., Thomaston, with Rev. Glenn Palmer, pastor of the Nativity Lutheran Church, Rockport, officiating. Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 175 Lancaster St., Portland, ME 04104 or the Saint George Ambulance Fund, P.O. Box 249, Tenants Harbor, ME 04860. (Photo page).
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