COLUMBIA FALLS – Albert W. “Link” Lindquist, 82, died Nov. 4, 2003. He was born March 24, 1921, in Baja, Hungary, the son of Margrit Sarkozi and Nandor Novak. He immigrated with his mother to the United States as an infant. He was the stepson of Alex Lindquist. Link grew up in Stamford, Conn., where he attended Stamford High School and played football with their state championship team. In the summer of 1935, he applied for the job of companion to a young man whose father was the commodore of the New York Yacht Club and spent that summer with his new found friend onboard the Cutter Azore. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army as a sergeant with the HQ Battery of the 798th Field Artillery in the African Desert and Sicily. Before moving to his dearly loved state of Maine and settling in Columbia Falls in 1985, he worked as a restoration carpenter in the Stamford area. His fondness of the bagpipes was displayed through his membership in the Acadia Pipes and Drums as a piper and drum major. He was an excellent skier who cut beautiful figures on the slopes. Link’s lifelong love affair was with boats especially Gaff Riggers, Friendship Sloops and Beatle Cats. He is survived by his wife, Jimmy of Columbia Falls; his children, Kristie Patterson of Boonton, N.J. and Lars Lindquist of Westport, Conn.; one stepson, Lloyd Slater of Sarasota, Fla.; one granddaughter, Erica Lee Lindquist of Westport, Conn.; two sisters, Janice and Peggy; several nieces and nephews. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends. At his request there will no services or visiting hours. Cremation arrangements by Bragdon-Kelley-Campbell Funeral Home, Milbridge.
ALBERT WILLIAM LINDQUIST
