Florence Kinney was born in Castle Hill, Maine, the 7th of 11 children. The family had a history of farming and a father who worked in the woods and as a cook on log drives on the Aroostook River. As a lot of families did, they moved often but always made sure the children were able to attend school ..read more

The American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA) has nominated Maine Veterans' Homes Administrators Melissa Graham of MVH Caribou and Brad Peck of MVH South Paris for the 2023 Eli Pick Facility Leadership Award (EPFLA). This award is a recognition of distinction, with only 2% of skilled nursing facilities qualifying nationwide. Introduced in 2008, the EPFLA award program was created by the late Eli Pick to use data-driven criteria to objectively identify high-performing Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) and the leaders who make them excel. Recipients are identified using publicly col ..read more

Maine Veterans’ Homes – Bangor  has been recognized as a 2021 recipient of the Gold – Excellence in Quality Award for superior performance in the long-term and post-acute care profession. In recognition of the highest levels of quality, the award is the final step in three progressive levels of awards through the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) National Quality Award Program. The program recognizes organizations that meet rigorous standards and serve as models of excellence in providing high-quality long-term and post-a ..read more

Widd Colby was born in Upton, Maine, and grew up on a farm on Rumford Point with his brother and sister. He attended Rumford Point Elementary School and Stevens High School. He enjoyed playing in the woods while growing up and hunting and fishing when a little older. In the wintertime, he was an avid cross country and downhill skier. However, his responsibilities working the family farm kept him from most other activities. Running the family dairy farm was the priority, as twenty cows needed milking twice daily, beginning at 5am ..read more

Michael Kern Fournier was born in Farmington, ME, attending primary school and junior high school. His family later moved to South Portland, where Mike graduated from high school in 1965. He worked for the First National Grocery Store during and after high school. He took some drafting courses at Southern Maine Community College, an interest that would pay great dividends later in life. As a young man, he also discovered the game of golf at Willowdale in Scarborough.  ..read more

Maine Veterans’ Homes has been recognized by MEMIC, workplace injury specialists, with the 2021 Award for Excellence in Injury Management.  ..read more

William “Bill” Garnett was born on January 28, 1929, in Jonesport, Maine. One of nine children born to Helen and Clarence Garnett, Bill had four brothers and four sisters. He finished school in his 8th-grade year to help his parents financially with their large family. He worked as a logger with a work horse to pull his felled wood through the Maine woods. He worked in road construction for the Maine State Department of Transportation and then joined the Army in 1951. His original orders included being stationed in Korea. Instead, Bill was sent to Germany, which pleased him, as it was a count ..read more

Stephen Geneseo grew up in Milford, MA, on a farm with his two brothers, Louis “Red” and Gerald. Stephen sadly lost his father when he was just five years old. The boys worked together tending vegetables and pigs, operating the family farm, and caring for each other and their mother. Steve attended Sacred Heart Catholic High School and enjoyed swimming in the nearby granite quarry in Milford. He enlisted in the Army directly after graduating from high school in 1960, following his older brother Red, who became a Green Beret in Vietnam. His middle brother, Gerald, was in the Marines stationed ..read more

 Born and raised in 1930 in Sherman, Maine (now called Staceyville), Dennis Gallagher left school at sixteen to work at a local lumber mill until he was old enough to enlist in the Air Force in 1949. A country boy from Northern Maine found himself right in the middle of a Texas heatwave for basic training at Shepherd AFB in Wichita, TX ..read more

Richard Hobart was born August 10, 1934, in Edmunds, ME, to his father, Richard (Sr.), a Veteran of WWI, and Marion (Macre) Hobart. Along with his brother, Charles, and a sister, Lucy-Rae, Richard and his family lived in Dennysville. Graduating from High School in 1951, he then went on to study Agriculture for two years at the University of Maine, Machias. His agricultural coursework prepared him for work at the Coleman Research Farm in Brunswick, ME. In 1953, a military draft was on, so Richard enlisted in the Army rather than be drafted. He attended basic training in Fort Dix, NJ, then tr ..read more