Ray Seigler of Readfield is Boston Post Cane recipient

Ray Seigler of Readfield receives the Boston Post cane from Valerie Gay Pomerleau, chair of the Readfield Board of Selectmen.

Ray, 97, who was born in Long Island, N.Y., and served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II, has spent most of his life in the Readfield area and worked for the Kennebec Journal for 35 years, retiring as managing editor. Now the oldest resident living in Readfield, he had six children with his first wife, Madeleine, who died in 1993. Between them, he and his second wife, Lois, 90, have 18 children, 33 grandchildren, 43 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.