Title	Mr.
Last Name	Grant
First Name	James
Middle Name	Hermon
Maiden Name
Nick Name
Place of Birth	Sandy Point, ME
Date of Birth	1873-01-20
Place of Death	Old Orchard Beach, ME
Date of Death	1946-05-11
Publication	The Eastern Gazette 5-16-1946, p.5
Obituary	James Herman Grant James Herman Grant, 73, highly respected citizen of Dexter for more than thirty-one years, died suddenly at the home of his son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Grant in Old Orchard Beach, Saturday morning, May 11th. He was ill only a few hours with asthma and a heart attack. He was born in Sandy Point, Maine January 20th, 1873, the son of Joseph W. and Elizabeth Connor Grant. On April 19, 1894 he was united in marriage to Helen Mills, who passed away several years ago. They made their home in Washington State several years before coming to Dexter in 1915, when he became associated with the Dumbarton Woolen mills as master mechanic. He retired last September and went to Old Orchard to make his home with his son and wife. In November 1943 he married Miss Erma Brockway of this own. She died in August of last year after a long illness. Fraternally he was affiliated with Plymouth Lodge, of Odd Fellows and Martha Washington Rebekah lodge, and he was a member of the Methodist church, where he served as deacon for many years. Surviving besides the son Edwin H. are two sisters, Mrs. Gertrude Fayle of South Portland and Mrs. Annie Bowden of Sandy Point; and two brothers, Fred C. of Sangerville and Edwin J. of Sabattus, also nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held from the Dexter Methodist church Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Gilman Lane officiating. There was a profusion of beautiful flowers. Interment was at Mt. Pleasant cemetery and the bearers were A. Q. Thompson, George Safford, Morton Bullard, Charles Ansell, Robert Cinq-Mars and Jack Richard. Among those from out of town called here for the services were Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Grant, Old Orchard, Earl Brockway, Wakefield, Mass., Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Turner Verona, L. L. Colson, Guilford, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown, Kenduskeag, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Bowden, Sandy Point, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Bowden, Jr., Lewison, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Grant, Sabattus, Mrs. Ella Drew, Mr. and Mrs. H. A.Staples, Bangor, Mrs. Stanley Blanchard, Blanchard, Mrs. Harriett Colson, Guilford, Mrs. Gertrude Fayle and, Edwin Fayle of South Portland.