Nancy Dyer Gray

Gray died at her home in Freeport on May 25, 2020, aged 87. She is interred in Portland's Evergreen Cemetery.

Gardiner Water District bought two adjacent properties in Freeport that later became the Harraseeket Inn, established by Nancy in 1984. One of Gray's sons, Rodney (Chip), was the general manager of the inn until early 2020. He was succeeded by Josh Cushing.

In 1983, Paul became head of the water district in Gardiner, Maine.

The Dyers sold the camp in 1955, and bought Gloucester Traveler in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Nancy and Paul built a home adjacent to the inn and raised four children there: three sons (Rodney, Paul and Nathaniel) and one daughter (Penelope). Another daughter, Jennifer, died in infancy in 1963.

Nancy Dyer Gray (November 10, 1932 – May 25, 2020) was an American businesswoman and conservationist. She established the Harraseeket Inn, in Freeport, Maine, in 1984, and went on to become president of both the New England Innkeepers Association and the Maine Innkeepers Association. She was also the eighth recipient of the Master Innkeeper of New England Award.

Nancy Gail Dyer was born in South Portland, Maine, on November 10, 1932, to Rodney William (Bill) Dyer and Beatrice (Bea) Allen. She was their second daughter, alongside Joyce (Jody). Her great-grandfather, Alphonse Dyer (1849–1920), was a sea captain.

It was in Jackson that Dyer met her future husband, Richard Paul Gray (1931–2003), who was a teenaged newcomer to Holeb with his twin brother Harry. The two were married in 1955, after Dyer graduated Tufts University and Gray had returned from the Korean War, in which he had served in the 7th Infantry Division, 32nd Battalion, Dog Company between 1952 and 1954. They were married for forty-eight years, until Paul's death in 2003.