March 12, 1940 – December 30, 2021 It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to an amazing husband, dad and grandfather (morfar/farfar) who passed away on December 29, 2021 at the QEII Health Sciences Centre. Born in 1940 to Harald and Randi Norve,
Maurice Dickey Drysdale, 76, editor/publisher emeritus of the
White River Valley Herald, died early Wednesday morning, April 28, 2021, in his home on Labounty Road in Randolph, Vt.
He was born on November 10, 1944, in Concord, Mass., to John and Eleanor Drysdale. Six months later, the Drysdales moved to Randolph, Vt., where John purchased the White River Valley Herald. He was its editor/publisher for the next 30 years.
Dickey graduated from Randolph Union High School in 1962 and Harvard University in 1966. He worked at the
Springfield (Mass.)
Union newspaper from 1966 to 1969 and earned his master s in public administration from the University of Pittsburgh in 1971. He then returned home to Randolph to take the reins from his father at the