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2025 Sample Ballot
NOTE: Voting must be by electronic ballot or by returning the official BALLOT mailed to members in early September, 2025.
Instructions to Members - Electronic Voting
You will receive a link to vote by email during the first week of September, 2005. Submit your vote online between September 1 and September 30, 2025. Voting is open for active MOCA members only. Login using your member credentials [email address and password] is required.
Instructions to Members - Mail in Voting
Using the form mailed to members, fill in the square for a YES or NO vote for each candidate for the Board of Directors and on the Bylaws Amendments. Review your name & address on the reverse and make corrections as needed. Mail this entire page to MOCA, PO Box 641, Augusta ME 04332-0641. Your ballot must be received no later than Tuesday, September 30, in order to be valid.
Two At-large Directors [3 years, 2026-2028]
Jane Haskell lives in Monroe [Waldo Co.], has been a MOCA member since 2023, and was elected in June 2024 to fill a vacated, at-large term. Jane is a member of the Penobscot Expedition Chapter DAR and Wawenoc Chapter, Maine Genealogical Society. Jane says, “Born and raised on Deer Isle [Hancock County], I grew up listening to stories of maritime travel, Penobscot Bay, and ancestors spanning three centuries.”
Marianne LePage has been a MOCA member since 2023, and lives in Richmond, Sagadahoc County. Marianne was elected in June 2024 to fill a vacated, at-large term. In her MOCA profile she states, “I’m not a part of a project, organization, or community relating to cemeteries and their preservation, but just a person who spends nearly every day in cemeteries to record dates and inscriptions, take pictures, and help maintain plots. It is a hobby that I’ve had since middle school, though visiting cemeteries has been a pastime since I was 6 years old.”
Five Officers [1 year, 2026*]
President: Walter Guptill, Owls Head, Knox Co., is seeking a third one-year term as MOCA’s President. Walter is an active member of the Owls Head Cemetery Committee and South Thomaston Cemetery Committee. Walter states, “My interest in the preservation and conservation of old and ancient cemeteries [resulted from] my interest in genealogy. I have attended and helped to lead MOCA Beginners Workshops. I have been a member of MOCA Workshop Committee for [over] 5 years. I have [for year] volunteered extensively with a professional cemetery conservator. Through my MOCA training and volunteer work, I have gained a good deal of knowledge and skills in the proper techniques, with a conservator’s approach, to monument cleaning and repairs… Training is critical!”
Vice-President: Judson Star, Kennebunkport, York Co., serves on the board of the Arundel cemetery in Kennebunkport and Kennebunkport’s Cemetery Committee. He owns Maintain the Memory, a gravestone preservation and cleaning company.
Treasurer: Granville Reed is seeking his first term as a MOCA Board member and its Treasurer. He has been a member of finance committees and/or treasurer positions that require attention to detail and understanding financial reports for a homeowners’ association, church, and scouts. Granville has enjoyed the history of cemeteries since he was in 1st grade when he helped a sexton do some fall clean-up. Now a resident of Lewes, Delaware, he says, “I started compiling my family genealogy almost 40 years ago when in my 20’s. From what I’ve been able to assemble, all my ancestors back to pre-Revolution were born in Maine, north of the area that was part of the Massachusetts colony.”
Membership Secretary: Brenda Hopkins, Manchester, Kennebec Co., a MOCA member since 2023, is the president of the Charles Robinson Cemetery Association in Mt. Vernon, Maine, where her family has been involved in the cemetery’s care and maintenance for over 40 years. Brenda has extensive experience in market analysis and project management. Her MOCA focus is answering questions and concerns about MOCA membership.
Recording Secretary: Cara Kent, Vassalboro (Kennebec Co.) has been interested in cemeteries for most of her life and wants to help document Maine’s cemeteries. She is a member of the Association for Gravestone Studies and, after attending a MOCA conservation workshop, became more interested in the practice of dowsing and became a member of The American Society of Dowsers.
*Officer terms may be modified by the Board of Directors for transition purposes with approval of 2025 Bylaws Amendments.