Dick “Gramps” Reid

Dick “Gramps” Reid was the youngest of 4 children, born to Aubrey & Isabelle Reid in Madison Maine. He married his high school sweetheart, Shirley, in 1953 and the two went on to have two daughters of their own, Donna (1953) and Cindy (1955). After a little bouncing around, the two settled permanently in Gray, Maine where they raised their girls and extended their family to include the surrounding Dry Mills neighborhood friends. Dick ran his wrecker service and garage for years but in 1981 he became what he was truly born to be- a grandfather, when the family welcomed its first granddaughter, Sadie. In 1987 his joy doubled when his second granddaughter, Aubrey was born. Never was there a man more overjoyed by the presence of his girls. When he wasn’t showering them with their newest wishlist of gifts, he would take them on long walks in the woods, teach them to drive, bring them camping, make asinine jokes just to hear them laugh. But his true joy came in 2004 when he became a Great Grandfather. First with the welcoming of his beautiful Jalyn Rose, before Gage became the first boy born into the family for generations in 2010. The package was finally complete in 2015 when Maxwell Reid entered the world, carrying his name. Nothing in the world mattered more to Gramps than his family. He didn’t even mind being the only man in a sea of girls for years- they were his whole world. In fact towards the very end when he was hospitalized, he hallucinated the presence of his wife of 68 years and said “we really have a beautiful family huh Shirl? They’re good girls, smart. And we had not just one but 5 girls, five great girls! And those kids! Wow! Gage is going to be a professional athlete, he’s so good and I bet Maxie will be a comedian he’s so funny, but loves his skiing. Yup we really have a beautiful life don’t we?” It was an absolutely beautiful moment to know they even in his most delusional of states, he was still strongly tethered to the joy his family brought him. However as beautiful as that moment was, his final words to his family were “I’d like a hamburger” haha, showed how he always wanted to keep a smile on his family’s faces.