PORT ST. LUCIE – David Carleton Grant, born April 10, 1942 in Portland and raised in Yarmouth, passed away August 9, 2021.

David is the only child of Ruth and Carleton Grant of Yarmouth and graduated from Deering High School. An illness within the family required the family to relocated to Cape Cod, Mass.

David served briefly on the Harwich Fire Department before taking a position with the Chatham Police Department in early 1966. David served 32 plus years with Chatham Police Department retiring in the summer of 1998. He was promoted from patrolman to sergeant in June 1978 during that tenure.

David married Helen S. Esten of both Stoughton, Mass. and later Yarmouth in June of 1968. Helen and David had one son, Darren, of Chatham, Mass. Helen passed in 1998. David remarried to Grace Martinson. David and Grace moved from The Cape to Jacksonville, Fla. area in 2004. Grace passed in 2015.

David is survived by his son, Darren Grant, of Port St Lucie, Fla.l with three grandchildren; and one great-grandson.

Internment services will be held at Riverside Cemetery, Yarmouth, Monday Sept. 20 at 11:30 a.m.


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