HOPE – Beloved husband and father, Jack I. Lord, 84, passed away Aug. 19, 2009, surrounded by his wife of almost 60 years, Nancy Lee and his children. It should be noted, like every other aspect of Jack’s life, he did it his way and under his own steam – including walking himself into the ambulance the last morning of his life. While the insurance business was what Jack became expert at and successful in, this Lewiston native who began his business career in Rhode Island before working in Connecticut and finally returning to Bangor, with his young family in tow in the mid-1950s, his passion was the sea and the boats that inhabited it. For many years, Jack enjoyed sailing the waters of Penobscot Bay from Belfast Harbor. He was a member of Maine Maritime Academy’s first graduating class in 1943 and after a tour in the Pacific as an engineer in the Merchant Marine in World War II, he delighted in owning and operating the Isleford Ferry in and around the Great Cranberry Islands of Northeast Harbor. Upon marriage in 1950, the ensuing 37 years – when not traveling six states in his work, or balancing fatherhood and the demands of Hatchet Mountain Camps, a summer housekeeping business on Hobbs Pond – were spent making sure he had at least one or more boats he and family could putter or muck around in, sail, or motor up and down the coast. The last 22 years in Hope, after his retirement as a vice president from Sargent, Tyler & West, Brewer, found him actively involved in the building of his home, Camden Rotary, Hope politics and whenever possible, out on his tractor, on his woodlot and of course, out in his lobster boat, The Highland Fling. There was nothing that made him happier than leaving a harbor on a summer morning with a southwest breeze as his companion. Missing him mightily are his wife, Nancy; son, Jeff Lord and daughter-in-law, Nancy Dowling; and daughter, Tracy Lord, all of Hope; son, Peter Lord and daughter-in-law, Kimberly and granddaughter, Meredith Lord, of Red Bluff, Calif.; granddaughters, Marisa Lord of Brunswick, Clarissa Lord Brundage of Seattle and Gillian Mutti of St. Petersburg, Fla.; grandsons, Miguel and Nathan Lord of Brunswick; and great-grandson, Basil Mutti of St. Petersburg, Fla. The family offers its deepest thanks to the emergency room and Med-Surg North staff of Pen-Bay Medical Center for their phenomenal care and sensitivity. In lieu of flowers, and because Jack was adamant that there be no service, those friends who have a memory about him they would like to share, might please send it to tracylordinmaine@yahoo.com. They will be compiled into a book for a family celebration of Jack’s life to be held at a later date. Contributions in Jack’s name may be made to Camden First Aid Association, P.O. Box 368, Camden, ME 04843 or Camden-Rockport Animal Rescue League, P.O. Box 707, Rockport, ME 04856. Arrangements are with Long Funeral Home & Cremation Service, 9 Mountain St., Camden.
JACK I. LORD
