Charles Moffatt Obituary – Charles Richardson (Dick) Moffatt died at Kimball Farms on February 6, 2021. Despite the fact that he lived to be 101 years of age, a nearby relative says “he resembled a ceaseless 24 year old, consistently prepared for an adventure…always willing to discover some new information but like the old”. Dick was an eager community worker, leading the territorial educational committee when Monument Mountain High School was planned and constructed, and dynamic in Kiwanis, West Stockbridge Congregational Church ensemble,

Wisdom Lodge, and the Austerlitz and West Stockbridge Historical Societies. He was an exceptionally dynamic individual from the H. H. Franklin Club – in case Dick wasn’t at local area occasions, you could see him honking around the Berkshires in one of his antique Franklin autos. For a large portion of his functioning vocation, you would track down Dick at his business Charles H. Baldwin and Sons making extricates from old family plans or connecting with customers all through New England and the Tri-State region.

Dick was brought into the world on March 30, 1919, in Manchester, New Hampshire. His family has established in West Stockbridge tracing all the way back to the 1870s where his granddad maintained a business on Center Street and Main Street. Dick experienced childhood in Summit, NJ, moved on from Newark Academy, and afterward school at Rensselaer Polytechnic in Troy, NY. He graduated in 1941 with a mechanical science certification, and presently joined the Merchant Marines, taking journeys to transport supplies to Casablanca, Italy, the Persian Gulf, and the Philippines during WWII. In 1953 Dick wedded Elaine Baldwin, likewise initially from West Stockbridge. Dick and Elaine were hitched for more than 50 years, Elaine educating in Kindergarten in Richmond, and later Home Economics in the Berkshire Hills Regional School framework.