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Family and friends will gather Friday to remember a 19-year old Gorham man who died in a car crash that left his two children fatherless, a brother critically injured and a family devastated.

Daniel N. Perrin was a passenger in a car driven by his brother, Francis Feeney. State police said the car struck a large rock, utility pole and a tree at 2:30 p.m. Sunday on Killock Pond Road, Hollis.

Feeney, 25, Hollis, was listed in critical condition Wednesday at Maine Medical Center, Portland. His grandmother, Maren Washburn, said he suffered injuries that include two crushed legs and broken hip, shoulder and ribs.

“He’s got a long haul ahead of him,” Washburn said. “Frankie isn’t conscious, he won’t be for a while.”

“Say a prayer for my son. He’s hanging by a thread,” his mother, Wanda Perrin, said Wednesday, sobbing.

Daniel Perrin lived with his mother, girlfriend Ashley Rowe and their young children in the Ossipee Trail home of his grandmother and grandfather, Philip Washburn.

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Perrin had many friends who have called the Washburn home steadily this week.

“Our phone hasn’t stopped ringing,” Maren Washburn said Wednesday.

Washburn said her grandson adored his two children, a son, Brayden, 2, and daughter, Kassidy, 3. He took care of his children full time, said his mother.

He also loved his dog, Capone, an American bulldog-pit bull mix. “The dog was given to him by his brother Frankie,” Washburn said.

Perrin was handy with tools. Washburn said her grandson’s hobbies included building and also fishing with his friends and girlfriend. He built his own ice fishing shack.

“He liked to go fishing anytime,” Washburn said.

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Washburn said Wednesday her grandson liked hanging out with his two brothers, Sean, who lives in Standish, and Frankie. Her grandson didn’t have his own car.

Perrin attended Bonny Eagle High School, where he played football one year. He was 6-feet 2-inches tall and weighed 240 pounds.

He was known to be accommodating and helpful. He often mowed the lawn for a widowed aunt, his grandmother said.

The Rev. Linwood Arnold will officiate a memorial service to celebrate Perrin’s life at 11 a.m. Friday at the Cressey Road United Methodist Church, intersection of Cressey Road and Route 25, Gorham.

Washburn said the church, where a family member is a parishioner, is donating use of its building for the service. There won’t be visiting hours.

Interment will be at Brooklawn Memorial Park, Portland.

Steve McCausland, a spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said Wednesday state troopers are still investigating the accident.

“Speed is the likely cause,” McCausland said.

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