GEORGE "BUD" GARDINER

Bud was a senior wheN I was a freshman at Bates, I ended up buying his clarinet which I now passed on to my granddaughter, a very special memory. .......... At Christmas holiday, I rode to CT with him when the front of the hood came up and smashed the windshield on the Maine Turnpike. There were six of us in the car. Bud stayed very calm , tied it down as best could be done and we made it ti Lynn MA, where he called someone. I ended up staying overnight with someone and taking a train to...

May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.

We were privileged to meet Bud and Rita in 2018 on a cruise, where we bonded over a love of dogs and having used the same "dog retreat" the same morning we met enroute to our pre-cruise hotel. We will treasure our memories of Bud´s humor, his skill with a fast quip and his wealth of life stories. As two veterans, we are particularly grateful for Bud´s work with the VA and the heart for service to the community he showed every day. We send our love, sympathy, prayers and big "Rita hugs" to...

Nothing less than a legend