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Eleanor Beidatsch is used to overcoming the odds, but even she thought a career in palaeontology would be a bridge too far.
Obituary: Taxia “Tess” Efthimion Paras PORTLAND - Taxia “Tess” Efthimion Paras passed away peacefully from respiratory failure following a recent surgery on Friday, Dec. 25, 2020 ... Share Taxia “Tess” Efthimion Paras PORTLAND – Taxia “Tess” Efthimion Paras passed away peacefully from respiratory failure following a recent surgery on Friday, Dec. 25, 2020 at Maine Medical Center. She did not have COVID-19. Taxia is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Peter and Caroline Paras and daughter, Mari Anne Paraskevas; her sister, Katherine Waite, brother and sister-in-law, Phi...
Author’s journey connects her with Maine veteran and World War II pilot Loretto Thompson says the more than 500 letters her father wrote during his service in the Army Air Corps led her to Roger Sundin, a.k.a. ‘Big Sundin,’ the man she credits with saving her father's life in May of 1945. Share Pilot Roger W. Sundin is on the left, front row, in this photo of the B-17 crew. Frank G. Thompson, radio operator, is second from right in the back row. Thompson wrote letters home and often mentioned his pilot, Sundin, which led his daughter to Sundin, now 97 years old.