Contact:
Krysta West
Communications Director
Senate Republican Office
(207) 287-1505
krysta.west@legislature.maine.gov

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Jonathan Kenerson, Joy Kenerson, Christine Kenerson, Sen. Stacey Guerin, Patty Treworgy, Ransom Kenerson, Gary Treworgy

AUGUSTA – The Treworgy family visited the Maine State Senate on Thursday, March 14 to receive a legislative memoriam from Sen. Stacey Guerin (R-Penobscot) remembering the Honorable Harry Thaxter Treworgy of Orono.

Mr. Treworgy served in the 9th Air Force during the Second World War. He was stationed near London, England before D-day and served in France and Germany. Later, he joined the family business operating a small chain of Ben Franklin department stores in Milo, Orono, Bucksport and Guilford. He served in the Maine House of Representatives from 1959 to 1960 and was appointed to the Governor’s Council, serving from 1961 to 1962. He was an active member of the Orono Board of Selectmen as well as a treasurer of the University of Maine Alumni Council. He also operated Treworgy Ships Chandlery in Castine. Mr. Treworgy will be long remembered and sadly missed by his wife of 70 years, Charlotte, and by his family and friends.

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