Ellsworth
Handsome, intelligent, kind, generous, talented, loving and funny as anyone you would have ever hoped to meet! Scott left this world unexpectedly on Jan. 29, 2022, and his family and friends are shocked and devastated by this sudden loss.
Scott Gordon Grindle was born on March 9, 1961, in Bar Harbor. He left the Bar Harbor hospital as an infant in a snowstorm and was taken to his heavenly home in one as well. He grew up in Ellsworth and graduated from Ellsworth High School in 1979. He fought a lifelong battle with the aftermath of contracting polio at age 3 by receiving a bad vaccine and endured more than 30 operations during his short lifetime to correct the effects of polio and allow him to live a normal life.
Scott worked as a laminator at Hinckley Yachts in the late 1980s until he was injured on the job in 1988 and was unable to return to work. He met the love of his life, Janice Smith, in 1985. It was love at first sight and they were inseparable from the day they met and married in 1986. Anyone who knew him would attest to the fact that his world revolved around his wife and family. Scott raised Janice’s children as his own and was their dad for most of their lives. Scott and Jan had been planning a trip to Paris for their 37th anniversary in April of 2022.
Scott couldn’t go into town without running into someone he knew because he seemed to know everyone. Even if he only knew you because he frequented your workplace, whether it was the grocery store, Home Depot or even the doctor’s office, he always had a joke or a smart reply that would entertain and endear him until you were just another one of his good friends.
Even though Scott was unable to work a “regular” job, he had many hobbies and talents that occupied his time over the years. He was an accomplished artist, a master woodworker, a master gardener, a talented and sought-after DJ for weddings and parties of every kind for many years, and for a period of time was the assistant county director for United Bikers of Maine. Not only could this man do anything, he could do it well. Even with everything that he did, he still had the time to take care of his children and grandchildren whenever the need arose.
Scott was predeceased by his mother, Joan (Patterson, Grindle) Ryan. He is survived by his wife, Janice; his children, Eric Haslam and his wife, Sarah, and Angela Williams and her husband, Jacob; his grandchildren, Riley Wescott, Jai Williams and Josh Williams; and his French family, Helene Marie Argouse and her husband, Florent; grandchildren Marceau, Auguste and Celeste. He is also survived by his father, Carl (Gordon) Grindle, and his wife, Carol; his sister, Kerry Guildford, and her husband, Leigh; nieces and nephews, Becky Guildford and family, Jen Guildford, Brandon Tupper and family and Heidi Tupper and family; his aunt, Margaret Jordan; uncle, Denny Patterson; and his extended family consisting of aunts, uncles and cousins and special friends, Roger and Teresa Sprague and family and Beth and Thomas Flucker and family.
A date for a celebration of life will be announced in the spring. I will keep Scott’s Facebook page open so that I can communicate the date and time of this celebration with all of his friends and family. In lieu of flowers or donations, please just be there to help his family or someone else in need.
Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of Bragdon-Kelley Funeral Home, Milbridge, where online condolences may be shared at www.bragdonkelley.com.