{"id":876,"date":"2020-06-22T14:28:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/?p=876"},"modified":"2020-06-22T14:28:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:28:16","slug":"robert-d-bob-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"Robert D. &#8220;Bob&#8221; Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From the July 2, 2001 issue of The Country Chronicle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>W. Canaan, NH&#8211;Robert D. &#8220;Bob&#8221; Grant, 63, died Tuesday, June 26, 2001 at his home in West Canaan following a long illness.  He was born in Hanover, NH, November 18, 1937.  He grew up in Bridgewater, VT and graduated from Woodstock (VT) High School in 1957.  He had been a resident of W. Canaan for the last 34 years.  Bob had been a truck driver for Twin State Fruit for many years and had also served as a bus driver for the Mascoma School District for 10 years.  He was a member of the Lebanon Lodge of Elks for 34 years; was a member of the VT National Grange; had been a State of NH Deputy Forest Fire Warden for several years; was the representative from the Canaan Fire Dept. to the Upper Valley Mutual Aid Association for several years; and had been a member of the Canaan Volunteer Fire Dept. for 22 years, retiring as a First Lieutenant in February 2001.  He was an avid deer hunter and enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He leaves his wife of 36 years, Pauline (Bellavance) Grant of West Canaan, NH, whom he married June 5, 1965; his mother: Ramona Welch of Wilder, VT; his foster-mother: Pearl Townsend of Bridgewater Corners, VT; a son: Douglas P. Grant of Lebanon, NH; a daughter: Rebecca C. Jones of Canaan, NH; a foster-son: Fred Cummings of Canaan, NH; several brothers and sisters; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.  He was pre-deceased by his foster-father: Paul Townsend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friends called at the Ricker Funeral Home in Lebanon on Friday evening from 6-9.  A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Saturday morning at 10 am at the Sacred Heart Church of Lebanon.  Burial followed in the Sacred Heart Cemetery with a reception in the church hall following the services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The family requested that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions be made to: The Visiting Nurse Alliance of VT and NH (VNA\/VNH), 20 S. Main St., White River Jct., VT 05001 or to: Hospice of the Upper Valley, 325 Mt. Support Rd., Lebanon, NH 03766.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the July 2, 2001 issue of The Country Chronicle W. Canaan, NH&#8211;Robert D. &#8220;Bob&#8221; Grant, 63, died Tuesday, June 26, 2001 at his home in West Canaan following a long illness. He was born in Hanover, NH, November 18, 1937. He grew up in Bridgewater, VT and graduated from Woodstock (VT) High School in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/?p=876\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert D. &#8220;Bob&#8221; Grant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[321,59],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grant","tag-west-canaan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}