Richard Collier Sargent Jr

     Richard Collier Sargent Jr was born on 5 April 1914, in New Haven, CT.¹ He was usually called Dick.¹ In 1931 Dick and his brother, along with their parents and their mother's aunt Alice Kingsbury vacationed in Bermuda. He promised his girls a similar trip when they all had the same school vacation - which occured in March 1960. It was a wonderful spring break trip.¹ Richard attended Phillips Andover Academy in Andover, MA, for two years¹ and graduated from the Taft School in Watertown, CT.¹ Richard attended Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, for a year and a half. He lived at 7 Vale St (as discovered on the flyleaf of a book he owned). A family story says that he first stopped off at Bowdoin College down the road, but realized that wasn't his school, so he traveled up to Bates.....^1,2 He was employed by Bridgeport Brass Company circa 1939 in Bridgeport, CT, as a foreman in the anealing department. He worked there for 24 years, until he retired in 1964.¹ He married Barbara Lois Male, daughter of Edmund Stanley Male and Doris Laura Wooley, on Saturday, 8 March 1941 in New Haven, CT.¹ Between 1945 and 1967 Richard and Barbara lived at 2078 Huntington Tpke, Nichols, CT, where they brought up their family of three girls and a later addition of a boy.¹ In 1962 Mom & Dad bought the house in Vermont. They went up weekends - and sometimes summers - until 1969 when they moved up full time.¹ For their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary Mom and Dad went on a boat in the Caribbean that they sailed themselves from Martinique to Grenada.¹

Barbara and Dick bought the house in Hartland Vermont in 1963 to use as a ski house. In 1969 they moved up there full time, where he became a 'gentleman farmer'. He raised polled herefords, and supplied his family with beef and veal every year.¹ Dick was a town lister (tax assessor) for the town of Hartland. He also enjoyed skiing very much - he had started skiing almost at the beginning of the sport here in America. The first rope tow in America was at Woodstock Vermont in 1934 - and my father went skiing there shortly after, and never stopped.¹ Richard Collier Sargent Jr died on 17 April 1985 in Hartland, VT, at age 71, and was buried at Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven, CT.¹ The cause of his death was a brain tumor.¹ An obituary was published in the The Rutland Daily Herald, in Rutland, VT, on 20 April 1985.³ To view the notice, please click here.