HAMPDEN – Juliet “Judy” Kellogg Markowsky, 65, died in a peaceful and nonviolent way Aug. 3, 2011, in Hampden, ending her long struggle with a degenerative illness. Judy was the daughter of Robert Orcutt Kellogg and Juliet Spangler Kellogg.
She grew up in Bangor along the Kenduskeag Stream and lived in Orono for many years. Judy received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College, a Master of Library Science degree from the University of Maryland, and a doctorate from the University of Maine. Judy worked for the Maine Audubon Society since 1987. She was first an environmental educator who developed award-winning programs. Judy was instrumental in the development of Fields Pond Audubon Center from 1992 until it opened in 1997, also serving as its founding director from 1997 until 2008. Judy taught field ecology and field ornithology to many students at the University of Maine. She received numerous awards, among them the Maryann Hartman Maine Woman of Achievement Award, a recognition award from the Maine Chapter of The Wildlife Society, and an environmental leadership award from the National Women’s History Project. Judy was a recognized authority on Maine birds. She loved nature and enjoyed teaching by leading field trips and writing articles and books about the natural world. She put her knowledge to work in the protection of the environment, and was especially interested in wildlife habitat. In her lifetime, Judy traveled to every continent except Antarctica to see as many different ecosystems and species as possible on this beautiful earth – especially birds, frogs, salamanders, lizards and even snakes.
She is survived by and will be greatly missed by her beloved sons, Gregory and Theodore Markowsky; Gregory’s wife, Juyoun and their infant daughter, Sonya; her beloved brothers and sisters, Robert Kellogg, Elizabeth Kellogg, Edward “Zip” Kellogg and his partner, Alison “BB” Adams, Sara Kellogg Meade and her husband, Jeffrey Meade, and Mary Kellogg and her husband, Walter Jakubas; and her nephews, Benjamin and Jacob Meade. She had many good friends who will miss her dearly.
A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 21, at Wells Conference Center, located on the campus of the University of Maine, Orono. A reception will be held after the service. Donations may be made in Judy’s memory to Fields Pond Audubon Center, 216 Fields Pond Road, Holden, ME 04429, 207-989-2591. A service of Brookings-Smith, Bangor. Thoughts, pictures and memories may be left online at
“For still there are so many things that I have never seen:
In every wood in every spring
there is a different green.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien