Harold C. Pickwick Jr., 90

LACONIA — Harold Curtis Pickwick Jr., better known as Curt, passed away on May 27, 2019, at his home in Laconia, at the age of 90 youthful years.

He was the son of Harold Curtis Pickwick Sr., M.D., and Hazel (Ash) Pickwick of Lisbon.

Curt graduated from Lisbon High School in 1946 and earned a bachelor of science degree from Keene State Teacher College and a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Over the course of his teaching career, he taught at high schools in Sunapee (1951-1954), Litchfield, Connecticut (1954-1956), Orange, Massachusetts (1956-1960), and at Brewster, New York (1960-1987). He truly loved what he did and loved his students.

Curt taught metal and woodworking shop and also driver's education. He would winter in Sun City, Arizona. He even got a part-time job with Maricopa County Parks & Rec as a guide at the Lake Pleasant overview and at the Lake Pleasant Campground. He loved making jewelry and competitive benchrest shooting and the Arizona weather was great for that. The summers were spent between his camp in Lyman, New Hampshire, and home in Laconia.

Like his late father, Harold Curtis Pickwick Sr., M.D., and sons, Curt was a Freemason.

He is predeceased by his first wife, Joyce Anita (Prescott), known as “Nita,” and his second wife, Bertha (Merchant) Bonor; and his brother, Paul Allen Pickwick.

Curt is survived by his partner, Louise (Conrad) Spears of Laconia; and children Richard Pickwick and partner Juanita (Spears) Stryker, Allen Pickwick, Deborah (Pickwick) Milburn and husband Monte, Valerie (Bonor) Sideris and Stratis, Morris Bonor and his wife, Kathie, Guy Bonor and partner Teresa Locke, Scott Spears and wife Gail, Rhonda (Spears) Taylor and husband Ed, Dawnn (Spears) Suchocki and husband Bud, and Cliff Spears. His is also survived by his sister, Rhoda (Pickwick) Stevens, and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law. He loved life and children, and treated everyone with respect and kindness.

There will be a graveside service in Lisbon at a future date, with family and friends in attendance.

Donations may be made in his name to Central New Hampshire VNA and Hospice, in Laconia; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon; or the Grand Masonic Lodge of New Hampshire in Milton.