Below is an obituary from Rivet Funeral Home:
NASHUA, NH — Hilliard C. Smallidge, 98 years old, died January 20, 2024 at his residence at Langdon Place in Nashua, New Hampshire.
He was born on December 26, 1925 in Winter Harbor, Maine to Carlton H. Smallidge and Ruth (Gerrish) Smallidge (Spurling). He grew up with close cousins, great friends, a double set of grandparents (two sisters married two brothers), lots of aunts and uncles. He graduated from Winter Harbor High School in 1943. He enlisted and served his country in the Navy on a PBY in the Pacific and on Okinawa; he was honorably discharged in 1946.
After the war he met his wife Arlene Chandler of Portland, Maine at a Duke Ellington concert. He danced his way into her heart, and they were married in 1948. After a brief stay in Portland, they moved to Boston where Carl went to radio school at M.I.T. They had two children, Donald and David before moving to their first home in Wilmington, Massachusetts (home of the Baldwin apple), soon welcoming a third son, Richard. Working nights at the Atlantic Gelatin company in Woburn, Massachusetts. Seven years later the family grew with three daughters: Cindy, Marianne and April. Carl enjoyed playing golf with Arlene, betting on the horses at the track, corresponding with family and friends, and playing cards (hearts, spades and cribbage) and board games with family during get togethers.
The family remained in the Wilmington house until 2003, when they sold the house and split the year on both coasts, living with April in California and with Cindy in New Hampshire. They traveled and enjoyed family for 15 years until they moved into Langdon Place of Nashua, an assisted living facility. Carl enjoyed visits from his extended family, worked on Sudoku puzzles, and crossword puzzles and reading books in his favorite recliner. And a weekly game of cribbage with son-in-law Mark.
Carl is survived by his wife Arlene (happily married to and dancing through life for more than 75 years), his son Donald Smallidge and his wife Gale Davison of Waterville, Maine, his son David Smallidge and his wife Mary Ann of Brockton, Massachusetts, his daughter Cynthia Morrissey and her husband Mark of Merrimack, New Hampshire, his daughter April Bonot and her husband Butch of Beaumont, California, his cousin Karen Pierce Hodgkins and daughter Erica Bernier and family, his nephew Mike Turner and his wife Tracy, his niece Lisa Turner and family, grandchildren Erick Smallidge and his wife Nicole, Jeffrey Smallidge and his wife Denise, Tara Smallidge and her partner Eric Ransom, Andrew Morrissey, Julie Stillman and her husband Craig, Kia Schmied and her husband Dom, Victoria DiLiddo, Deidre Galasso and her husband Shaun, great grandchildren Avery and Delaney Smallidge, Kayleigh, Liam and Connor Smallidge, Eli and Grace Galasso. And all who knew and loved Carl.
Carl was predeceased by his son Richard Smallidge and daughter Marianne Smallidge, and by great nephew Justin Turner.
There are no services planned at this time. His cremains will remain with his wife until her time to join him has come and then they will be laid to rest together.
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