Helen Dudman, Ellsworth Businesswoman And Journalist, Dies at 93

Maine Public | By Ed Morin

Published February 20, 2018 at 7:27 PM EST

Leading Ellsworth businesswoman and longtime First Amendment advocate Helen Dudman has died.

The Bangor Daily News reports that Dudman died at the Parker Ridge Retirement Community on Monday. She was 93.

Dudman, who served on the Maine Public Board of Trustees, owned 3 radio stations in Ellsworth and Bangor. She worked for many years at Post-Newsweek Stations in Washington, D.C., and as executive women’s editor of the Washington Post.

Last August her husband of 69 years, journalist Richard Dudman, died at age 99.

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Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.

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