a passion for homing pigeons and watched them venture between their family’ s properties.
In later years, Graham and his family became active in the organic farming movement. Graham took up the cause of keeping nuclear power out of the Lake Champlain region, forming a group called Vermonters Against Splitting Atoms.
Despite his immense gifts, Graham remained a humble and thoughtful man to the end.“ When my grandfather was dying, he saw me and interacted with me, as if I was a fellow officer in World War I. His focus was on the treatment of the enlisted. He had a lot of compassion for them,” David recalls. His grandfather spoke of the fears the soldiers faced in the midst of the horrors they experienced.
Graham Carey died in 1984 at age 92. His second wife, Nancy, lived for many more years, residing in Benson until 2019. She died in Middlebury, Vermont, in 2024, several months after her 100th birthday.
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