obituary

SKOWHEGAN - Alan Eugene Oak, 86, passed away Oct. 15, while a resident of the Oak Hills Nursing Center in Bridgetown, Ohio. Alan was born in Skowhegan to Irvin and Mildred Russell Oak. After graduating from Skowhegan High School in 1943, he entered the U.S. Naval Intelligence Service and was assigned to a group that was deciphering Adolph Hitler's Enigma coding system in World War II. After military service, Alan earned an engineering degree from the University of Maine. He resided in New York City before moving to Cincinnati in 1958. He was a mathematics educator at the University of Cincinnati, as well as for the Cincinnati public and parochial school systems. Alan was predeceased by his parents; a brother, Wendell; and his very special aunt, Mary Russell Foss. Surviving are his brother, Ivan Ray Oak, of Hondo, Texas; cousins: "Katie" Valliere Ouilette, of East Madison, Raymond Bolduc, of College Park, Md., and Marilyn Bolduc, of Fairfield Center; nieces: Cathy Borges, of Elgin, Okla., and Judy Watson, of Chester, N.H.; and grandnieces and nephews.