Peter G. Hastings, an attorney, community leader and beloved friend to many, died on March 5, 2022, at his home in Fryeburg, Maine. He was 86.
The youngest of seven children of Judge Hugh Warren Hastings and Martha Fifield Hastings, Peter was born in Fryeburg on July 23, 1935, at his parents’ home on Oxford Street.
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