FARMINGTON – George M. Hurlburt, 90, of Middle Street, Farmington, died Wednesday morning, May 11, at the Orchard Park Rehabilitation and Living Center where he had been a resident since April 23.

He was born Feb. 7, 1915, in Sherman Mills, the son of Lyman and Etta (Humphrey) Hurlburt. He received his education in Sherman schools and graduated from Carmel High School.

He was a veteran, having served in the US Army during World War II where he was trained as a mechanic on crash boats.

On Sept. 4, 1946, he married Erla Keep of Farmington at the Silas Edgecomb Farm in Livermore Center. For many years he was an auto mechanic at a local Ford dealership. In 1980, he retired as supervisor of maintenance services at UMF. Always mechanically inclined, he could fix anything and was referred to as “Mr. Gadget.” He was also a clock maker whose preference was to reuse materials on-hand. He also refinished and caned chairs.

Other hobbies included bowling, gardening and square dancing with his “special partner,” his wife of 58 years who survives him, Erla, of Farmington.

Other family members who survive him include two sons, Norman and his wife, Amelia, of Westport Island and Geoffrey and his wife, Ann, of Winslow; two daughters, Sharon Tokarz and her husband, Frank, of Stoughton, Mass., and Sheila Peavey and her husband, Charles, of Florida; one sister, Rena Fernald of Lakeville, Mass.; 12 grandchildren, Ian and Joel Hurlburt, Jill and Allison Hurlburt, Paul, Maureen and Michelle Tokarz, and Peggy, Shawn, Patrice, Colleen and Cathy O’Neil; and several great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by a brother, John; and sisters, Millie and Blanche.