Alden “Cappy" Mann was born April 27, 1934, in Ellsworth, Maine to Earl R. Mann Sr. and Alice B (Roberts) Mann.

Cappy had six siblings and two survive, Earl Mann Jr. of Florida and Steven Mann of Massachusetts His other siblings were Adrienne Lucas, Phillip Mann, Glennarose Dykes and Eric Mann.

Alden had three sons, Christopher (partner Mary), Thomas “Andy” (wife Tanya) and Daniel Mann (wife Claudia). He had six grandchildren: Melissa, Gracie, Piper, Alyssa, Ethan and Alex. He also had many nieces and nephews.  

Cappy’s grandfather was captain of a 3-masted schooner, Francis Coffin, moored in Bucksport, Maine. His name was Captain Alden and Cappy's namesake. Bucksport is where Cappy grew up as a teen and went to high school. He graduated high school and went on to the University of Maine, Orono where he majored in business. His uncle, Harold Boardman, was a former president of UMO and who Boardman Hall was named after. It was at UMO he met and roomed with his good friend Ralph Calcagni. As with many, after graduating, the years took them in different directions. In later years, social media would bring them back together. Ralph and his wife Maureen were great, supportive friends!

After UMO, he would join the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. He was stationed out of Marine base Quantico, Virginia. He served four years and was honorably discharged as a sergeant. Alden was a proud Marine and continued contact with Marine Corp groups right up until his final days. 

After the Marine Corps, Cappy moved to Augusta where his mother, sister Adreinne and brother Earl lived. He took a job with the state of Maine in the Banking Bureau division. On a business trip, Cappy met his wife-to-be from Amarillo, Texas, Dena Wheeler, moved her to Maine from Texas and had three children. They divorced after eight years; she moved back to Texas while Cappy stayed and raised the two older boys as a single parent. 

A boss and mentor at the state, David Garceau liked Cappy and helped him climb the ladder. Dave eventually passed and Cappy would go on to become Director of Securities and Exchange Division at the Bureau of Banks and Banking for the state of Maine. He retired after 25 years of service. Cappy investigated fraud. He always made it clear to his boys he disliked lying. He put it right up there with stealing. When someone lies it's a reflection of their character, their integrity. Once, while investigating a suspect in his office, Cappy asked the suspect why he had done the crime he had done. The man looked at my father and said with conviction … "Because God told me to." Cappy, with his quick wit, looked up to the sky, looked back at the man and shook his head and said, "Nope, God said he didn't say that."

In his retirement, he was able to do one of his favorite activities a lot more, sailing. He would sail many miles along the Maine coast through the years. Mostly out of Boothbay Harbor, Maine with good friends Dave and Heather Griffith. Like his grandfather, Capt. Alden, the sea was in his blood. Many tales could be told about his sailing adventures but one of the favorite adventures was helping sail his friend Tom Hazzard’s sailing vessel, The Mother, to Florida with his brother Steven and good friend Scott Hall. This was the trip of a lifetime!

Later he moved to Mississippi, just a few miles from Gulfport. It was there he met his good friends, Don Rose and his wife Jackie, who were instrumental in keeping him going in his later life. 

Cappy, like a lot of the Mann boys, would get upset if you tried to wrong him (or someone he cared for) but had a huge heart of gold should you be his friend or in need. He was also known for his compassion, taking into his home several people that were in need and put them up until they could get back on their feet. He was also known to take care and love dogs that others took in for themselves but did not take care of properly.

Cappy's body may have slowed in the end days, but his mind was always sharp. He had a great memory for the past, song lyrics he loved and poetry. He could still recite some of the poetry he knew from years back. He would always say he liked songs more for the lyrics (the message) than the melody. He took them to heart. 

Money was never something Cappy coveted. He witnessed what the love of money did to some people very close to him. Cappy once gave up an inheritance from his aunt because he would not let her speak poorly of his beloved father. That was sad, as he was one of the only ones who would check up on her. She not only took him out of her will for that one conversation, she put in there if there was any money left, none was to go to him. Cappy would, once in a great while, tell the story of how his father Earl Sr., years ago, would have the most expensive breakfast ever served (at that time) at the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City, Canada. He was the guest of a very important gentleman of the time by the last name of "Mellon" of the Mellon Banking family. The breakfast ordered was baby strawberries (shipped in) soaked in vintage champagne. Cappy was more of an eggs and bacon type guy but loved the history of this story and his father. He loved his father (and mother) very much and honored them fiercely. 

Throughout the years in Augusta as a single parent, Cappy had a great, lifelong friend named Thomas A. “Tommy” O’Conner. An old Irish immigrant, Tommy and his wife Mary-Jane were there for Cappy through thick and thin. Tommy was a role model for Cappy and his children growing up. When Tommy passed, it was a huge loss for not only the community but especially his good friend Cappy and his kids. Tommy and Cappy are together again, looking down, smiling and waiting for the day we will all be reunited again. As he would always say, “10/4....over and out.”

Till we meet again, We love and miss you very much.