BRUNSWICK — David Holt Shiverick, 85, passed away on May 9, 2018 at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick, with his family at his side. He was born in Winchester, Massachusetts on June 18, 1932, son of Paul Nye Shiverick and Doris Holt Shiverick.

Dave attended Winchester High School. While there, he was first chair trumpeter in the high school band. During his high school years, deceased World War II veterans were brought back to the states for home town burial. Dave played Taps for over 100 of those military services. He also ran track and was on the high school rifle team. He became an Eagle Scout and worked as Scout Master for one year.

Rifle target shooting became a major interest, and for about 10 years, he practiced about 100 shots per day. The practice helped him become a State Champion and win two National Championships. He competed all over the Northeast, fired on the Massachusetts State Rifle Team, the Tuft’s University Team, and coached and fired on the United States Navy/Marine Team in matches in other countries.

After high school, Dave attended Tufts University majoring in Economics and Business. He competed in the swim team, was coach and member of the rifle team, and played his coronet as first chair soloist in the band. He was an NROTC student and upon graduation, was commissioned as an Ensign in the Navy.

He served for three years aboard the Aircraft Carrier Intrepid in Engineering, and was Electrical Officer for most of that time. He had two, six month cruises to the Mediterranean and visited many other countries with the ship and rifle team.

On leave in 1955, at a home town Christmas Party, he saw Maryjane Davis and asked her to the New Year’s Eve Party at the Naval Officer’s Club in Boston. Their second date was a year later, and they were married on the Ides of March in 1958.

Upon discharge from the USN as LTJG, Dave joined Goodyear Tire and Rubber in their Industrial Division selling conveyor belts, hose, V belts, etc. After three years, he doubled the volume in his territory in Hollidaysburg, PA and was offered a promotion to District Sales Manager. However, there were only six districts in the U.S., none where he and Maryjane wanted to live, so he left Goodyear and took a position as Purchasing Manager at Crane & Co. in Dalton, MA, where he served 33 years at that outstanding company.

Both he and Maryjane were avid skiers which attracted them to Dalton. Dave was on the Jimney Peak Ski Patrol for 30 years which gave the family skiing privileges.

Dave enjoyed white water canoeing and used his expertise to run many of the most difficult rivers in the Northeast. He and Maryjane took their children on 2 to 3 week canoe trips to northern Maine, Quebec, and Ontario over a period of 15 years. Later, they bought a sailboat which they named WEBFOOT after one of the eight clipper ships built by Shiverick ancestors in East Dennis on the Cape. There were many happy weeks and days spent on WEBFOOT with life-long friends. They became active in the Rockland Yacht Club in Rockland, Maine.

Dave leaves his wife of 60 years, Maryjane; his son, Bradley Nye Shiverick; his daughter, Dayle Shiverick; and grandchildren, Benjamin MacKay Shiverick, Margaret Kate Shiverick, and Brennan Hughes Shiverick; and several nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his father, his mother, his half-brother, Paul Bradford Shiverick, and his half-sister, Priscilla Shiverick Shaw.

A memorial service will be held at 2PM Saturday, June 16 at the West Parish Congregational UCC, 32 Church Street, Bethel. Interment will be at the Maine Veteran’s Memorial Cemetery, Augusta.

In lieu of flowers, please make contributions in Dave’s memory to the West Parish Congregational UCC, P.O. Box 23, Bethel, ME 04217.

Arrangements are in the care of Brackett Funeral Home, 29 Federal Street, Brunswick.

Condolences can be expressed at www.brackettfuneralhome.com.