Update:Loved ones remember Deb Kolbjornsen as 'kind, caring, creative'. Kolbjornsen was reported missing around 6:15 p.m. Tuesday after she did not return from walking a friends dog when expected, York police said in a news release. A 66-year-old woman who was reported missing Tuesday afternoon was found dead on a trail in Cape Neddick. can stop at any time. Comments are not available on this story. Deborah Kolbjornsen of York, 66, beloved kindergarten teacher and gifted artist Her family says she died when she fell and hit her head while walking a neighbor's dog on a trail in Cape Neddick . With a Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. Prepare a personalized obituary for someone you loved.. July 5, 1954 - The family will hold a private ceremony this week. Dr. Schmidt, who brought a joyful exuberance to his work and gained a measure of pop culture fame from it, spent his career investigating the biochemistry and lethality of bee, wasp and ant venom, and how they used their natural weaponry to deter predators. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. A lifes work had begun. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 12, 2023. Unbelievably sad," Jennifer Sneirson Kun wrote. In addition to his wife, Dr. Schmidt is survived by their sons, Kalyan and Veris; his daughter, Krista Schmidt-Jewell; his son, Scott, from his marriage to Ms. Wragg, which ended in divorce; his sister, Freya Phillips; his brother, Dan; and three grandchildren. She was predeceased by : her sister Adele Dillon; and her son Eric Lee Oliver. Justin O. Schmidt, an intrepid entomologist who measured the agony of insect stings by allowing himself to be stung hundreds of times in creating a renowned and . Winds NE at 15 to 25 mph. //

Deb is survived by her husband of 33 years, Peter Morbekk Kolbjornsen, daughter Kate Elisabeth Kolbjornsen, son Andrew Olaf Kolbjornsen, his wife Jacklyn Moylan and son  Atlas Moylan Kolbjornsen, as well as sisters Karen Semigran of Hague, NY and Paula Albin of Mexico Beach, FLA. She is also survived by nieces and nephews, all of whom she loved dearly.
Her family is devistated by this sudden loss, but will hold her in their hearts as they
 always have.

Deb was a truly spectacular human. The body of a retired teacher from the Oyster River Cooperative School District was found along a wooded trail on Tuesday, according to police officials. Born to Andrew and Albina Kirsch, of Riverhead, Long Island, NY on July 5, 1954, Deborah graduated from Riverhead High School in 1972. It looks like you do not have any active subscriptions. Humans are fascinated by stinging insects, he wrote in The Conversation, a nonprofit news website, in 2016. Deborah Deborah Kolbjornsen was reported missing around 6:15 p.m. Tuesday after she did not. He ranked, from 1 to 4, the pain caused by the stings of 80 types of bees, wasps and ants that he had encountered, and gave vivid descriptions of what they felt like. Anyone who has any knowledge of these incidents is being asked by police to call theYork Police Department at 207-363-4444. Members of the Oyster River Alumni Association remembered Kolbjornsen on their Facebook page. Kolbjornsens survivors include her husband, daughter and son Andrew Kolbjornsen. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death. It was mentioned in the 2015 superhero film Ant-Man and was central to the Ted-Ed animated cartoon It Hurts (2021), for which he was credited as the educator and was a character. Her untimely death was caused by a sudden fall while walking in the woods. Deb was a truly spectacular human. Sign in or Subscribe Police had asked the public for help to locate 66-year-old Deborah Kolbjornsen, after she did not return from her walk when expected, prompting a missing person report about 6:15 p.m. She was a. One day, he recalled, he and several other boys threw rocks at a hornets nest in an old apple tree, hoping to topple it. Deborah Kolbjornsen Photo courtesy of the family. She is remembered fondly by her many colleagues and by countless former students whose lives she touched. Comments are not available on this story. 2.78 4.31 /5. Studying the venom of bees, wasps and ants, he was stung hundreds of times and famously ranked the stings in a colorful pain scale index. Justin O. Schmidt, an intrepid entomologist who measured the agony of insect stings by allowing himself to be stung hundreds of times in creating a renowned and vividly descriptive pain scale that ranked them, died on Feb. 18 in Tucson, Ariz. Neddy, age 72 passed away after a longtime battle with Diabetes on Monday, October 3, 2011, at Summit Medical Center. The story is that Justin once grabbed a tarantula hawk, just to see what the sting would be like, she said. Deb is survived by her husband of 33 years, Peter Morbekk Kolbjornsen, daughter Kate Elisabeth Kolbjornsen, son Andrew Olaf Kolbjornsen, his wife Jacklyn Moylan and son Atlas Moylan Kolbjornsen, as well as sisters Karen Semigran of Hague, NY and Paula Albin of Mexico Beach, FLA. She is also survived by nieces and nephews, all of whom she loved dearly. Anthophorid bee, Level 1: Almost pleasant, a lover just bit your earlobe a little too hard., The bullhorn acacia ant, Level 1.5: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. In 1988 she married loving husband Peter and moved to Maine. Her family says she died when she fell and hit her head while walking a neighbor's dog on a trail in Cape Neddick. A 66-year-old woman who was reported missing Tuesday afternoon was found dead on a trail in Cape Neddick. Police determined the woman, who lived locally, had entered a wooded area with a trail system off Lorraine Drive to walk a corgi around 11:30 a.m. After an extensive search that stretched into the late even hours, Kolbjornsen was found dead 1.5 to 2 miles into the woods off Lorraine Drive, police said.