Andrew T. Card, Sr. died peacefully on August 2, 2015. Born January 23, 1925 in Portland, ME, he was the son of the late Elizabeth True and Clifford R. Card. He graduated from Deering High School, Portland, ME, in 1943, and was a veteran of WWII, serving from 1943 to 1946. He attended Portland Junior College following the war and was a 1950 graduate of Boston University with a degree in Business Administration. On August 14, 1948, he married his high school sweetheart, Alice Elizabeth Shaw, and they moved to Billerica, MA, where she taught school at Howe High and he attended B.U.. He was employed as the sales manager for the S.B. Green Co. of Watertown, MA, and for forty years sold bricks and masonry supplies. He worked for ten additional years at Spaulding Brick in commissioned sales until he retired at the age of 80. Together with his wife, Alice, and Stuart and Ruth Chaney of Dunstable, MA, he founded the Merrimack Valley Apiaries, Inc., a honeybee farm located in the area that shares the company name. Over the course of the next 50 years, the company — now owned by Andrew Card, Jr., Crystal Card, and their sons, Wesley and Glenn — has become one of the largest honeybee farms in the nation. He was involved in politics, and was a long time member of the Billerica Republican Town Committee and former chair of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee. He was twice elected to the Billerica School Committee. He served on the vestry of the St. Anne’s Episcopal Church and was a member of the Thomas Talbot Lodge in Billerica. In addition to these accomplishments, Andy’s real love was standard horse racing, which he enjoyed along with his second wife, Jean Mueller-Card. In this endeavor he followed in the footsteps of his father, Clifford, who, back in the 60’s and 70’s, was advisor to some of the top standard bred trainers and drivers of the sport in the state of Maine today. Andy got into horse racing in the mid 60’s and enjoyed a very successful career. Last year at the age of 89, he owned the fastest 3-year-old mare in Maine, winning the Maine Breeders’ State series in 2014, as well as the Massachusetts Championship. Andy leaves a brother, Clifford of Sudbury, MA; a daughter, Cynthia of Townsend, MA; a son, Andrew Card, Jr. of Otto NY; and 8 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife, Alice, in 1968, and his brother, Linwood. A graveside burial service will be held in Pine Grove Cemetery, Falmouth, ME, on Wednesday, August 5, at 2 o’ clock. The family will honor his legacy with a memorial service at his beloved farm in Billerica on September 12 at 2 o’ clock. Charitable donations may be made to the Alice S. Card Fund at the Billerica Town Library. Arrangements by Burns Funeral Home, www.burnsfuneralhomes.com