SOUTH PARIS – Peter H. Troy II, 72, of Mayberry Hill Road, Casco, died Saturday, Dec. 4, in hospice care at Market Square Health Care Facility, South Paris, attended by his family. His death was the result of a stroke on Nov. 27.

He was born May 16, 1932, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the son of Peter F. and Elizabeth Colwell Troy, and grandson of Peter H. Troy, founder of the Red Hook Telephone Co.

He was a graduate of Blair Academy, Blairstown, N.J., and attended Roanoke College, Roanoke, Va.

He served in the United States Army in Korea during the Korean War and Truce. After his discharge, he became an electronics technician for IBM, where he worked for 15 years, leaving that company to serve in management with the Red Hook Telephone Co.

In 1972, he became manager of the Continental Telephone Company in Raymond (the former Poland Telephone Co.) He was that company’s state marketing manager when, in 1979, he suffered a stroke, which led to his early retirement.

Mr. Troy was a member of the Ti-Yogi Bowmen, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was a Past-Commander and Adjutant of Montgomery Post #429 American Legion, Rhinebeck, N.Y., as well as a member of the Color Guard. The Post honored him with a life membership in recognition of his service. Legion membership also included the 40&8, Arlington, N.Y.

Community activities included his membership and past presidency, as well as one of the founders of, the Rhinebeck Historical Society. As a member of the Rhinebeck Rotary Club, he was instrumental in the development of the original Rhinebeck Rotary Haunted House, begun in order to give local children and grownups a yearly Halloween event, which grew to be a major fund raiser for the club.

For several years after his transfer to Maine, he and many Casco friends enjoyed doing a similar haunted house, first at his home on Mayberry Hill, and then in the Casco Village Grange Hall. He was formerly active in the Naples/Casco/Raymond Lions Club.

He was a member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Windham, where, in the 1970s, he and his wife were active in the youth ministry.

Although Mr. Troy had many interests and activities which continued throughout his retirement, most important was his love of antique vehicles. From the age of 14, when a family friend sold him a Model A Ford, to his last year, he was most happy when working on and driving his own collection of cars and attending shows.

He was a supporting member of the Owls Head Transportation Museum in Owls Head, as well as a member of the Ford V8 Club, the National Woodie Club, and a past member of the National Packard Club, the Back Forty Club, and the MOALS.

Survivors include his wife, the former Patricia Bohon, of Churubusco, N.Y., whom he married on July 25, 1959; his daughter, Anne and her husband, Al Smith, of Otisfield; his son, Peter H. III, of Casco; his daughter, Mary, of Sterling, Va.; his granddaughter, Sophrinia Rose Smith of Otisfield; his sister, Frandee Sarver of Santa Rosa, Calif.; his cousin, Troy Warner of Indianapolis, Ind.; and several nieces and nephews.

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