Mrs. Verner A. Gilley Islesford woman gets cane BAR HARBOR - Mrs. Verner A Gilley of Islesford has received the Mary Tracy Ambrose Cane for being the oldest resident at the Harbor Rest Nursing Home here. Mrs. Gilley is 94. The presentation was made as part of the Bicentennial festivities by Edward E. Ainsworth, Bar Harbor town manager, and Mrs Jere W. Jellison of Salisbury Cove CO chairman of the town's Bicentennial committee. Mrs. Gilley was born at Machiasport, March 10, 1882 She graduated from Washington Academy and taught in the elementary grades at Machiasport, Whiting and Charlotte from 1900 to 1903. After 1907, she started teaching at Isleford Mrs: Gilley has three daughters, Miss Sylvia F. Gilley at the Maplecrest Nursing Home, East Sullivan; Mrs. Louise Spurling of Northeast Harbor and Mrs. Marcia Manring of Northeast Harbor She has four grandchildren and two great granddaughters.