Richard Sears Bellows lived a full life for 93 years. He was a loving husband and father born February 13, 1931 in Springfield Massachusetts to Mildred and Richard Sears Bellows. Widely known as “Dick he was an alumnus of Wilbraham Academy, Bates College, and University of Massachusetts where he earned his business degree. As a boy, he vacationed along the Coast of Maine, and at sixteen crewed on a two masted gaff-rigged schooner out of Castine.
Following a tour of duty in the army, he joined the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company in 1957. As a Chartered Life Underwriter and member of the Million Dollar Round Table Richard helped his clients with Estate and Financial Planning. He remained licensed and served clients until the end of his life.
Richard married Carol Hartley June 6, 1953, and raised a family, Betsy, Joni, Rick and Stephen. All four children developed an early passion for skiing from their Patrol Leader Dad. A beautiful, graceful man, Dick suspended aloft moguls and ski jumps like an Eagle while keeping a vigilant eye for fallen skiers. Summertime, Dick again soared with swan dives from a full meter board into his gunite pool. This “emerald” oasis shimmered from the starlit meadow of Carol and Dick’s 1910 rustic log home with playful sounds of joy.
When Richard was seven his father died, and his mother remarried Roy C. Chapin. Another gentle giant, Roy defied gravity alongside Naismith shooting basketballs into a peach basket, he later became a founding father of the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield. Dick the youngest, acquired three new siblings, Betty, Chape and Ellie. Summer reunions at “Greylogs” brought family together, with Ellie and Jack Cowan, and children, John, Judy and Keith. Dick’s brother Bill and wife Nancy brought family, George, Lorraine, Alan and Warren. Extended family, including cousins kept Dick busy grilling delicious steak barbecue.
In 1997 Richard and Carol moved their miniature horse farm to Maine with son Stephen. Highland Blue Farm a thirty-five year labor of love that began in the foothills of the Berkshires found its way to the Island of Stonington. A mariner at heart Dick’s endearing commitment to his animals found peace along the shores of Hatch Cove leading brother and sister through the shallows to the delight of Irish Jack Russell, Henry.
On the coast, Dick loved the rising moon reflecting across the cove, and vibrant sunrises where Eagle taunted Gulls, and Osprey, like childhood pool chatter. He was the first to notice a distant Heron ready to strike, or approaching Deer foraging for apples. Emersed in extravagant colors of garden flowers that commanded an army of pollinator's, he’d chuckle when a not so desired “Mr. Rabbit,” crashed the scene. A man that appreciated diverse points of view, the natural balance of things, he was always open for debate, free of judgment. “My father wanted to take it all in, like oxygen for the soul, salt in his veins.” Dick’s song “Red Sails in the Sunset,” with vigilant watch-dog barks echoes across tidal-flats ‘way out on the sea.’
A private gathering will be celebrated by Carol and Stephen with family from afar to honor their beloved Grandpa and Dad: Jim and Betsy Dachos with daughter Kyleigh and son James with Ashley, Joan Bellows and husband Andre; Rick and Danielle Bellows and daughter Elanna and son Jacob.The stones they skipped together like ripples in time along with fireside stories Dad told live through us all.
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Following a tour of duty in the army, he joined the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company in 1957. As a Chartered Life Underwriter and member of the Million Dollar Round Table Richard helped his clients with Estate and Financial Planning. He remained licensed and served clients until the end of his life.
Richard married Carol Hartley June 6, 1953, and raised a family, Betsy, Joni, Rick and Stephen. All four children developed an early passion for skiing from their Patrol Leader Dad. A beautiful, graceful man, Dick suspended aloft moguls and ski jumps like an Eagle while keeping a vigilant eye for fallen skiers. Summertime, Dick again soared with swan dives from a full meter board into his gunite pool. This “emerald” oasis shimmered from the starlit meadow of Carol and Dick’s 1910 rustic log home with playful sounds of joy.
When Richard was seven his father died, and his mother remarried Roy C. Chapin. Another gentle giant, Roy defied gravity alongside Naismith shooting basketballs into a peach basket, he later became a founding father of the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield. Dick the youngest, acquired three new siblings, Betty, Chape and Ellie. Summer reunions at “Greylogs” brought family together, with Ellie and Jack Cowan, and children, John, Judy and Keith. Dick’s brother Bill and wife Nancy brought family, George, Lorraine, Alan and Warren. Extended family, including cousins kept Dick busy grilling delicious steak barbecue.
In 1997 Richard and Carol moved their miniature horse farm to Maine with son Stephen. Highland Blue Farm a thirty-five year labor of love that began in the foothills of the Berkshires found its way to the Island of Stonington. A mariner at heart Dick’s endearing commitment to his animals found peace along the shores of Hatch Cove leading brother and sister through the shallows to the delight of Irish Jack Russell, Henry.
On the coast, Dick loved the rising moon reflecting across the cove, and vibrant sunrises where Eagle taunted Gulls, and Osprey, like childhood pool chatter. He was the first to notice a distant Heron ready to strike, or approaching Deer foraging for apples. Emersed in extravagant colors of garden flowers that commanded an army of pollinator's, he’d chuckle when a not so desired “Mr. Rabbit,” crashed the scene. A man that appreciated diverse points of view, the natural balance of things, he was always open for debate, free of judgment. “My father wanted to take it all in, like oxygen for the soul, salt in his veins.” Dick’s song “Red Sails in the Sunset,” with vigilant watch-dog barks echoes across tidal-flats ‘way out on the sea.’
A private gathering will be celebrated by Carol and Stephen with family from afar to honor their beloved Grandpa and Dad: Jim and Betsy Dachos with daughter Kyleigh and son James with Ashley, Joan Bellows and husband Andre; Rick and Danielle Bellows and daughter Elanna and son Jacob.The stones they skipped together like ripples in time along with fireside stories Dad told live through us all.
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