Gordon Grant

Gordon A. Grant, Jr. passed peacefully on Friday, February 27, 2025; he was 93 years old.

He is survived by his children, Lisa (Douglas) Opdyke, Gordon (Holly) Grant III, and Kathryn (Anthony) Bontomase, and his grandchildren James (Edale) Hoffman, Paul (Morgan) Grant Greenwood, John Grant, Katherine Grant, Jasper Bontomase, and Sarah Bontomase. He also had three great-grandchilden: James Hoffman, and Noah and Lyra Greenwood.

He was preceded in death by his wife of over fifty years, Bette Ann Grant (1937-2010) and his beloved grandson, Ryan Opdyke (1990-2023).

He was born in Pittsburgh, PA and grew up in Glen Ridge, NJ. After serving in the Army during the Korean War (stationed in the Philippines), he moved to his parents’ farm in rural Bucks County. After living in Bethlehem, PA for five years, he returned to Bucks County for the rest of his life.

Fascinated by cars in his earliest year, he started his professional life as an auto mechanic in Quakertown, PA, and then moved into vocational education as an auto-mechanics instructor at the Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia and then at the Upper Bucks County Vocational-Technical High School. He worked in this position until his retirement, and he was a leader in the teacher’s union multiple times. He had a highly fulfilling post-retirement career working in the business of one of his former students, Mr. Jerry Lerch, at Automotive Special Services.

In addition to his abiding interest in cars and mechanics, Gordon was a dedicated outdoorsman. He spent countless hours hunting and fishing, reading about these pastimes, and even building his own equipment – he built his own rifles and fly-rods, was a handloader, and tied flies. He was also a prodigious producer of firewood and heated his family home largely through a woodstove for many years. Later in life, as his body began to wear down from his vigorous life, he turned into an amateur baker and loved to use his kitchen as his laboratory for making cakes and breads.

At the time of his death, Gordon was a resident at Pheobe Richland in Richlandtown, where he was given excellent care by a committed and caring staff.

A visitation will be held at C.R. Strunk Funeral Home, Inc., 821 West Broad Street, Quakertown on Saturday,  April 18, 2026, from 12:00 noon until the time of the memorial service at 1:00 PM.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that any remembrances take the form of contributions to Trout Unlimited or American Heart Association (see below for details).