Meet Our Members
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TONY ANTOLINI Presentation Committee
Tony is an emeritus professor of music who taught at Bowdoin College for over 30 years. He is currently director of music at St. John's Episcopal Church in Thomaston and artistic director of Down East Singers and Mozart Mentors Orchestra. He has served on the board of directors of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Maine as president. |
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KATHERINE BATSON
Katherine retired to Camden in 2022 and has found the community engaging and enlightening. Her passions include her family, travel, home curating, volunteering, her garden, and her spiritual journey. Being with nature gives Katherine an overwhelming sense of belonging and peace. Soon after beginning the process of completing her advance directives, she met Jean Matlack who helped her discover green burial. |
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LAURA EVANS Presentation Committee
Laura Evans majored in Environmental Studies at San Jose State College in California before organic gardening in the Santa Clara Valley prior to relocating to Maine. Laura has joined MMGB because she wants to have a green burial and return her body to the earth instead of adding more greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere. |
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NANCY P. HANRAHAN PhD, RN
Nancy, internationally recognized expert in research and development of innovative interventions in mental health care and the nursing workforce, is also the co-founder of Mid-Coast Family Hospice. After a career as a professor (UPenn, UMass), researcher, author, and Dean of Nursing at Northeastern University, she returned to Maine where she had begun her nursing career with her wife and family on retirement. Her work with MMGB builds on her long dedication to ecological balance and hospice. |
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JEAN MATLACK Land Acquisition Committee, Presentation Committee
After raising a family, and a career as a psychologist/psychotherapist, Jean became concerned with the news of climate change. Since then she’s been involved with environmental issues, including the toxic effects of conventional burial and cremation. She has discovered that green burial offers a beautiful way to end one’s life that is truly kind to the earth. |
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KRISTA M. MEINERSMANN Land acquisition group, Presentation Committee
Krista is a retired nurse educator, an interfaith Chaplin and a prior hospice volunteer. She is an active member of the Midcoast Maine Green Burial working group and serves on the land acquisition working group. Her interest in green burial arose out of multiple experiences of being with and supporting those experiencing death and dying including two sisters. She believes it is important to bring the natural process of dying and post-death care into the control of families and loved ones. Green burial is an environmentally friendly approach to end-of-life care that facilitates such involvement as well as active participation by the community. Her mission is to help educate others about green burial. |
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AIMEE MOFFITT-MERCER Graphic Design & layout support
Aimee has a BFA and BS in K-12 education, with10 years experience teaching and 13 in administration. Aimee has been an advocate for, and involved in, natural/green burial for many years. |
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JUDY POWERS Treasurer, Finance, Land Acquisition Committee
Judy Powers was raised in southern New England and has lived in midcoast Maine since 1972. She spent most of her career in "hands on" education, including Montessori and Outward Bound; even 2 terms as a state legislator was learning-by-doing while serving others. She believes this is an earth-based, possible, and personally satisfying project with which to be involved. |
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SUSAN ST. JOHN
Susan has joined the board of Midcoast Maine Green Burial for two reasons. 1. Green burial and all the conversations surrounding it brings our minds and bodies together—too long separated in our culture—as part of the whole. 2. Green burial allows her to work with an outstanding, committed, interesting, forward-looking and forward-thinking group in midcoast Maine, doing the vital work of answering the question, "What's next?" in our community. |
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JUDITH SOLEIL President of the Board, and on the Land Acquisition and Communications Committees.
Judith Soleil is a semi-retired educator and editor. She first encountered home death care around 1998 when she met Beth Knox, founder of Crossings: Caring for Our Own at Death, which centers on home funerals. Having lived in a community where home funerals were common, Judith feels that green burial is a natural extension of her commitment to honoring this phase of our lives. |
