- Date Of Birth: February 25, 1925
- Date Of Death: August 28, 2014
- State: Maine
Richard Perkins Boothby Jr.
February 25, 1925
August 28, 2014
Richard Perkins Boothby Jr. of Falmouth died peacefully on August 28, 2014 in the loving company of his four children.
Dick was born in St. Louis, Missouri, February 25, 1925, the son of Pauline Jameson of Colebrook, NH. and Richard Boothby Sr. of Lewiston-Auburn, Maine. Dick grew up in Auburn and later in Portland, graduating from Deering High School. He entered the Maine Maritime Academy during the early years of World War II, took his officer’s commission, and joined the Navy. During the war, he served on the Liberty ship James C. Cameron in the South Pacific and Japan. Given wartime shortages, the ship lacked an official medical officer and Dick’s layman’s knowledge of medicine outfitted him to fill in. For many of his shipmates, Dick thus became “Doc.”
Returning to Maine after the war, Dick entered Bates College, the alma mater of both his father and mother. Bates figured prominently in Dick’s life and in the history of the Boothby family. Dick was the great-grandson of the founder and first president of Bates, Oren B. Cheney. It was also at Bates that Dick met his wife, Carolyn Coburn. Together they raised their four children, first in Cape Elizabeth and later in Cumberland Foreside. As a young man, Dick joined his father as an executive in the shoe industry, working for the Holmes Stickney Co. in Portland and later for the Gould and Scammon Co. in Carlisle, PA.
