Saturday, November 1, 2025
Randy grew up across the road from my family Hampden. He and my sons often hung out together. For many years, he was the neighborhood Bangor Daily News paperboy - on foot - walking his entire route carrying a heavy canvas bag of papers. No matter how cold or how deep the snow or how miserable the day, he was up at the crack of dawn, long before anyone else in the neighborhood. The newspaper was always neatly tucked inside the door when I went to fetch it. He was reliable, dependable, conscientious, and thoughtful. I admired how seriously he took his early morning task and how well did it. And of course, on weekdays, after he had finished the paper route, he still had to get ready to go to school and be on time when the bus rolled around. He was always kind to my sons who were a few years younger, including them in neighborhood games of softball, which he often organized.
It makes me sad to learn of his passing. My son Jsaon and Andrew and I extend to his family and his brothers and sisters our sincere sympathy.
Ardeana Hamlin
