Robert Arlington Everett passed away on Feb. 4.
He was born Aug. 31, 1935, in Boston, Mass., to the late Dr. Albert Everett, Dean of Northeastern University and the late Anna Clow Everett.
Bob attended Newton High School in Newton, Mass., Northeastern University, majoring in mechanical engineering, and the University of Maine at Orono, receiving a B.S. in forestry management. He also attended the University of Vermont and was working on his 5-year certificate.
He was a member of the Air National Guard, both in Maine and Vermont for six years. He was the District Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America, serving in Rutland and Addison counties in Vermont and the Camp Director of Camp Sunrise from 1962-1967. He was the Camp Director of the Youth Conservation Corps program out of the Rochester and Middlebury Ranger District of the U.S. Forest Service in Vermont and supervised the building of the U.S. Forest Service Robert Frost Interpretive Trail in Ripton, Vt.
He retired after 23 years of teaching woodworking and industrial arts at Champlain Valley Union High School in Hinesburg, Vt. in 1989. He and his family moved to New Harbor, where he worked at Damariscotta Hardware store for 11 years.
He was a volunteer fireman in East Middlebury, Vt. and an EMT with the Monkton First Responders. He was a Deacon and on the Board of Trustees of the Middlebury Methodist Church.
Throughout his life, Bob enjoyed woodworking, camping, working with youths, sailing, duck hunting, fishing, and making maple syrup for his family and friends. He built four homes almost all by himself and refurbished four other homes and a mobile home. He enjoyed singing with the New Harbor Chorale and was a volunteer driver for the Meals on Wheels in Damariscotta.
He wintered with his wife in the Gulf of Mexico at Grand Shores West, North Redington Beach, Fla., enjoying the warm sun away from the cold winters of the northeast.
Being the world’s biggest self-proclaimed procrastinator, he died after a long struggle with Lewy Bodies disease with dementia, a type of Parkinson s disease, at the age of 72.
He leaves behind his loving wife of 29 years, Connie Everett; children and their families, Robert and Vicki Everett, Jr. of Acton, Mass. and children, Susan and JR Corcoran of N. Windham and children; Jennifer and James Currier, who are currently expecting their first child, and Jane (Stowe) Lewis, their “adopted” daughter and her two children; sister, Anne Sawyer of Portland; and brothers, Albert Everett of Little Rock, Ark., and Dr. Herbert Everett of Easton, Mass.
Bob wrote this obituary himself and asked that family and friends get together to remember him in lieu of a formal funeral. There will be an interment and gathering in the spring in Vermont.
Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Strong Funeral Home and Cremation Center, Damariscotta.
