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Richard (Dick) Hudson Rankin

Richard (Dick) Hudson  Rankin

Dick Rankin passed away peacefully surrounded by family at the Prince County Hospital Wednesday evening (June 20, 2018). In his own words, “he shared quite a run with no regrets” with his wife of 55 years Sally (Speers). Dick enjoyed a life as a builder, starting his career in construction with his father Robert Hudson Rankin, and then working and living all over the Maritimes. He had a great pride in each of the over hundred buildings he built, not simply in the bricks and mortar and art of doing it right, but more importantly what the finished product brought to each community, whether it was an iconic high-rise in a Halifax or Fredericton, a school for a new educational system in Guyana, or a performing arts theatre in his hometown of Summerside. He took great pleasure in sharing his knowledge and mentoring others in all parts of his life, whether during his construction days, in work, in his personal life, and in his volunteer work after retirement with the Shrine. From a family of story tellers, until the end, he always had one at the ready, whether to impart a life-lesson or simply to amuse those around him. We will miss him but his spirit will forever live on in the things he built and the people he touched. Dick is predeceased by his parents Robert Hudson Rankin, and Mary Lorretta (Ahearn). He is husband to Sally; father to (Richard) Chris and Jeff; father in law to Laurel (Jardine) and Shelley (Marshall); brother to Catherine and (Robert) Allan; “Grampy” to Emily, Kathleen, Andrea, Keagan, and Mary Jean; and “Uncle Dick” to Thomas, Micheal, Peter and Katie. Resting at the Davison Funeral Home Kensington for visitation on Saturday from 4-7 p.m. Funeral Sunday at Trinity United Church Summerside at 4:30 p.m. Interment in People’s Cemetery Summerside. Brethren of Hiram and Lebanon Lodge # 3, Summerside and Zetland Lodge # 7 Alberton will hold a Masonic Memorial Service at the funeral home Saturday evening at 7 p.m. If so desired contributions may be made to The Red Oak Shrine Club or the Prince County Hospital Foundation. www.davisonfh.com


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