01/17/2012
Town Council, Portland Post Office honor retired Cape Cottage postmaster for more than 65 years of service
Ann Burke, postmaster at the Cape Cottage Branch for more than 65 years, is presented a plaque for her extraordinary service by Town Council Chairman Sara Lennon, far left. Town Councilor Kathy Ray, third from left; and Portland Postmaster Regina Bugbee look on.
Regina Bugbee, right, Portland postmaster, presents a framed enlargement of the Mary Cassatt postage stamp to retired Cape Cottage Postmaster Ann Burke
The Cape Elizabeth Town Council and the Portland Post Office honored Ann Burke, retired postmaster of the Cape Cottage Branch, and her husband Wallace Burke on Jan. 11, 2012.
Ann Burke served for more than 65 years operating the Cape Cottage Post Office. After Mrs. Burke had a fall two years ago, Mr. Burke assumed responsibility for the post office, until the branch closed its door this fall after 113 years of serving local postal customers.
The Town plaque reads:
Appreciation and Commendation To Ann and Wallace Burke
Sixty-Five Years of Postal Service to the Town of Cape Elizabeth
You Made the Cape Cottage Post Office a Community Institution and in Doing So You Became Community Institutions.
Acting Portland Postmaster Regina Bugbee presented a framed image of a recent postage stamp commemorating American painter and printmaker Mary Cassatt, with a plaque honoring Ann Burke.
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