Edwin H. Pert, 83, died Oct. 14 in Maine Medical Center in Portland.
He was a reporter for the former Bath (Maine) Daily Times.
He also had been a news director for radio stattion WMMS-AM, later named WJTO-AM, based in Bath.
Pert served in the Maine House of Representatives, as secretary of the Maine Senate, and for 18 years as clerk of the Maine House of Representatives. He also had been a selectman in Georgetown, Maine, and executive director of the Maine Democratic Party.
Pert leaves two sisters, Jacqueline and Catherine; a sister-in-law, Jacqueline; many nieces and nephews.
The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondents Ashleane Alabre, Sophie Cannon, Jenna Ciccotelli, Nico Hall, Joshua Leaston, Georgeanne Oliver, Julia Preszler and Thomas Ward, undergraduate students at Northeastern University.