William G. Page ’60 died on May 17, 2026, in Samut Prachan, Thailand.

(The following was a family provided account on May 17, 2026:)

William Granton Page ’60

William Granton Page, formerly of Haverhill Massachusetts, passed away May 17, 2025, in Samut Prachan, Thailand. He was born on March 23, 1938, in Haverhill, MA, to James and Isabelle Page and was educated in the Haverhill School system. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1960, followed by three years in the U.S. Army. He studied Chinese Mandarin at the Army Language School and served as a translator for the Army in Taiwan.

After his Army service he taught English in Georgetown, MA, and then joined the Peace Corps in 1965 where he did community development work in Nepal. After the Peace Corps, he attended Columbia University where he graduated in 1969 with a master’s degree in English. Since then, he taught English in American schools in Taiwan, Singapore, Iran, and Luxembourg. He founded and advised creative writing groups and edited journals and newspapers in the American Schools in Isfahan and Luxembourg. He also lived in Saudi Arabia for a year, where he wrote and edited training materials for Aramco.

Interspersed with his teaching, over the years he traveled extensively, including, Morocco, Egypt, Israel, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, and China. He travelled as the locals travelled, by bus, Tuk tuk, or camel, and hiked whenever he could. In 1986 he moved to Bangkok, Thailand, where he taught English for many years at Thammasat University. He lived the rest of his life in Thailand, periodically returning to the U.S. for family visits and events.

A wonderful story-teller, he entertained his younger siblings and neighbors with Gutty Wutty stories and other adventures. A popular teacher, he often acted out Shakespeare, created fun competitions for the students and did whatever was necessary to engage his students. A prolific writer, he published several books, Thai Lite, Thai Lite 2, The Nirvana Experiments, The Yeshuan Dialogues, and The Bald Power Manifesto, and wrote humorous columns for two Bangkok newspapers, which he illustrated with amusing and self-deprecating cartoons. A prodigious letter and email writer, friends and relatives have been graced with his many hilarious and interesting letters about his travels and experiences. He was also a talented guitarist and wrote many songs, usually humorous, about current happenings.

A man of many facets, he was a student of religion from a young age, reading the entire Bible at a young age and later, as he moved to Southeast Asia, considering becoming a Buddhist monk for a time and later becoming a devotee of Sri Ramakrishna, an Indian Hindu mystic. Another facet of his personality was his delight in telling ribald stories and singing equally ribald songs, accompanied by his guitar.

He is survived by his wife of many years, Ann, her daughter, Anna, and son-in-law, Michael, as well as his siblings, James Page of Newton, MA, and Pam Page Traver of Atkinson, NH, nephews and nieces Charlie Traver of Portsmouth, NH, Laura Sampson of Plaistow, NH, Jim Traver of Exeter, NH, Sara Page of Denver, CO, and Chris Page of Seattle, WA. He is also survived by grand nieces and nephews, Race Traver, Jackie Sampson, Harris Traver, Willa Traver, Jackson, Page-Roth, Anders Page-Roth, and Gareth Page-Roth, a great-grand niece, Jade Traver, as well as many friends and extended family.

As he wrote in his last will, he had a rich and fulfilling life and did everything he wanted to do.