George Adams Gilmore

BRUNSWICK – George Adams Gilmore, a resident of Thornton Oaks, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026 at Mid Coast Hospital.

George was born in Portland, Maine on April 15, 1935, the son of Martha Senter Gilmore, of Brunswick and David William Gilmore, a professor of European Languages at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., and a summer resident on Birch Island in Maine.

George grew up in Highland Park, N.J., a suburb of New Brunswick, and graduated from Highland Park High School in 1952, and was president of his class. George then attended Webb Institute of Naval Architecture in Glen Cove, Long Island, N.Y., where he graduated in 1957 with a B.S. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.

George worked in the marine field until 1958 when he joined the U.S. Navy and was Brigade Commander at Naval Officer Training Command in Newport, R.I. He served as a submarine repair coordinator for two years at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii, and then two years as the Damage Control Officer on the USS Colahan, (a Bath built destroyer), in the Pacific Ocean during the Vietnam War.

George then attended Harvard Business School, graduating in 1964. He then worked in various marine design and management positions with locations in Bethesda, Md., Washington, D.C., and New York City, N.Y. In NYC, at Energy Transportation Corporation, he was co-author with two others in 1980 of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers technical paper “Service Experience with 125,000-m3 LNG Vessels of Spherical Tank Design.” George moved to Brunswick, Maine in 1985 where he became the manager of Senter’s Department Store, founded by his grandfather, until it closed in 1992.

After moving to Brunswick, he married Martha Kendall Gilmore. They were active members of the Maine State Music Theatre community. They also enjoyed time on Casco Bay and summers at Mere Point. While in Brunswick, George participated in several organizations including The Brunswick Rotary Club, Maine Merchants Association, Independence Association, and Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust. He was a member of First Parish Church.

George was predeceased by his wife, Martha Kendall Gilmore.

George is survived by three stepchildren, Kent (Lisa) Black, Daphne Brenner, Elizabeth Shortsleeve; step-grandchildren; and numerous cousins from the Senter Family.

Friends and family are invited to visit 10 a.m. Saturday Oct. 17, at First Parish Church, Maine Street, Brunswick. A funeral service will follow at 11 a.m. at the church. Committal will reunite him with his wife, Martha in Riverside Cemetery, Brunswick. Memories and condolences can be shared at http://www.brackettfh.com.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to

First Parish Church

9 Cleaveland St.

Brunswick, ME 04011

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