Charles Melvin Oikle.

BRUNSWICK, ME Charles Melvin Oikle, 95, died July 5, 2011 at Hill House Assisted Living Facility, Bath, Maine after a brief illness.

Charlie was born December 14, 1915 in Tremont, Kings County, Nova Scotia, the son of Charles Freeman Oikle and Minnie MacGinnis Oikle. Until age 12, Charlie, his brother Wilfred and his sisters Marjorie and Dorothy lived with their parents in Nova Scotia until the family came to the United States, settling in the Worcester, MA area. His parents, brothers and sisters predeceased him. Charlie lived in the Worcester / Northborough MA area until moving to Maine in 2008. He proudly became a United States citizen in 1947, but always maintained a special fondness for Nova Scotia.

From 1942 to 1964 he was married to Marion E. Patterson and they had two sons.

He was a machinist by trade and was employed by the Leon J. Barrett Co. in Millbury, Mass from World War II until retirement. His second job, but his first love, was repairing automobiles, and whenever at home he could be found crawling in, under and around cars. One of his happiest memories came at the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Mass., when as the owner of a brand new Ford sedan, he actually met and shook hands with the innkeeper who was Henry Ford.

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