Sharon Sue Beaudoin, also identified in public missing-person records as Sharon Sue Smith and associated with the surnames Clark or Clarke, was a young woman living and working in Bangor, Maine, when she disappeared. NamUs lists her missing-person case as MP36952 and gives her date of last contact as December 14, 1979, from Bangor in Penobscot County.
Other public case summaries from Bangor police and missing-person organizations describe the last known sighting as occurring later, around August 25, 1980, and say she was reported missing on September 4, 1980. Because the available online records differ on the exact last-contact date, the clearest consistent point is that Sharon vanished from Bangor after being connected to the Paramount Lounge on Harlow Street, where she worked.
At the time she went missing, Sharon was in her mid-twenties, though online records differ slightly because of the conflicting disappearance dates. NamUs lists her as 24, while The Charley Project lists her as 25 and gives her date of birth as May 25, 1955. She was described as a White woman with blonde or strawberry-blonde hair and blue eyes, about 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighing approximately 108 pounds. Public records also note that she had long hair and a tattoo on her left hand, a small but important identifying detail for anyone who may have known her, seen her, or later encountered information connected to her case.
The setting most often associated with Sharon’s disappearance was the Paramount Lounge on Harlow Street in Bangor. Bangor’s public missing-person listing says Sharon was an employee there and was last seen leaving the lounge on foot late one night around August 25, 1980. The Charley Project and Doe Network repeat the same core account: she worked at the Paramount Lounge and was last seen leaving on foot late at night. A later news report by WGME added more context, reporting that the lounge was on the ground floor of a hotel built in 1911 on Harlow Street and that Sharon, who used the names Sharon Clark and Sharon Beaudoin, had been renting a room there.
What happened after Sharon left the Paramount Lounge has not been publicly resolved in the sources available online. The published accounts do not describe a confirmed destination, a verified person she planned to meet, or a confirmed explanation for why she was not heard from again. The available summaries are sparse, but the details they preserve suggest a woman whose life was rooted in a specific place in downtown Bangor and whose disappearance left behind uncertainty for those who cared about her. The WGME report, published decades after she vanished, described new leads renewing attention to the case and quoted a family member expressing the painful desire for closure and the chance to bury Sharon.
Sharon’s case remains tied to the Bangor Police Department, which is listed as the investigating agency in NamUs and Bangor’s own missing-person materials. Bangor police publicly ask anyone with information about missing persons listed by the department to contact investigators, and the Doe Network lists Bangor Police Department case number 96-20254 for Sharon’s case. DNA family reference samples are also listed in the provided NamUs data, indicating that relatives have contributed biological reference material that may help investigators compare Sharon’s profile against unidentified-person records. The compassionate heart of this case is that Sharon Sue Beaudoin was not just a name in a database: she was a young woman known by multiple surnames, remembered by family, and last connected to a late-night departure from the Paramount Lounge in Bangor. In overview, the public record tells the story of a woman who disappeared from Bangor after working at the Paramount Lounge, whose exact last-contact date is reported differently across sources, whose identifying features remain carefully documented, and whose case continues to depend on credible information from anyone who may know what happened to her.Last Seen: Dec 14, 1979
