AUBURN – Lawrence John (“Red,” “Larry”) Carr, 86, of 6 Lois St., Lisbon Falls, and residing at Montello Manor since February 2008, died Thursday, June 12, at the Hospice House of Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice, after a courageous battle with kidney disease.

He was born in Westbrook, Nov. 9, 1921, a son of the late John and Helen Eagerly Carr. He married the former Clarice Hatch Stevens on Aug. 26, 1961. She died Nov. 19, 1994.

Larry joined the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) Company 160th, where he learned many life lessons and challenges. He worked many jobs, to include woods and farm work, ice cutting on the river before settling with the Lisbon Public Works Department, where he retired after 34 years. He was well-known as the grader operator or his “iron horse” as he liked to refer to.

He belonged to the Left Hand Club in Lisbon and a was a life-long member of the Slovak Catholic Association in Lisbon Falls. He enjoyed spending time in Moosehead, Rangeley and at the camp in South Harpswell, taking long drives, eating out and reminiscing with family and friends. He loved to go to the country fairs and watch the oxen pulls.

He leaves behind a daughter, Lucille Alexander Hill and companion, John “Jack” Holt, of Peru; his grandchildren, Jessica Bibber Holton and companion, Robert Rowe, of Lisbon Falls, Linwood Higgins and wife, Lizette, of Fords, N.J., James Higgins and wife, June, of Virginia Beach, Va., and Chris Stevens and wife, Karen, of Lisbon Falls; his great-grandchildren, Dillon Holton, Jonathan, Matthew, Clarisa, Mikayla and Alexandra Higgins and Shebly and Taylor Stevens; other special people in his life were daughter-in-law, Ora Stevens Madden and husband, Edward, of Lisbon Falls and Gary Holton of Lisbon.

He was predeceased by his parents; his beloved wife, Clarice; and Gerald Stevens.

Many thanks to all of the agencies of Androscoggin County that assisted him with care over the last few years.