SACO — Jeanine Trottier, 76, of Saco died Friday, October 26, 2018 at Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center from end stage COPD. She died peacefully surrounded by her family.
Born in 1942, to Simonne and Paul Grenier, she graduated from St. Joseph’s High School where she played for the basketball team and was voted best dancer of her senior class. She was a member of the Flamingo’s and spent time with her friends drinking cherry cokes at the Puritan Restaurant.
At 13 she met her future husband, Wilfred Trottier, promptly announcing that she was going to marry him. He insisted they wait until she was 21 and they married in 1963. They celebrated their 55th anniversary this past September although she kept telling him it was their 56th. It was a happy marriage and we think she just wanted it to last a little longer.
She owned Town and Country Beauty Salon which she ran out of her home in Saco. She enjoyed conversing in French with her many regular customers. After closing the shop, she transitioned into Office Management for Dr. Harold Chamberlin where she enjoyed getting to know the patients.
Jean loved socializing, playing cards and mahjong, and going to dinner with friends. In her bowling league days, she could roll a mean curve ball. She and her husband were active in the Jaycees where she was honored with lifetime membership. In retirement, they became snowbirds spending their winters in Florida where they worked part time for Disney until retiring again once her grandchildren no longer needed free tickets to the theme parks.
Her favorite role was as Mémère and she was adept at spoiling her three grandchildren not with gifts, although there were plenty of those, but with her time. Whether standing guard as they swam in the ocean at her beloved Ferry Beach, or taking them shopping for school clothes, she was happy just to be with them.
She had a great laugh and was a true extrovert who was always happiest when surrounded by friends and family. Wherever she went she ran into someone she knew. The odds were good. She knew a lot of people.
She is survived by her husband, Wilfred Trottier, her sister Priscilla Farrell and husband Richard of Saco, her daughter Karen O’Connor and husband Richard of Windham, her son Stephen Trottier and wife Jill of Saco, her grandson Michael Trottier an Operations Specialist in the US Navy stationed in Norfolk Virginia, granddaughters Rachel and Amanda O’Connor of Windham, as well as many nieces and nephews.
She and her parents are together again, probably spending their reunion celebrating the Red Sox world series win.
A funeral mass was held in Florida and her cremains will be transported to Maine where a memorial service and burial will be held in the spring.
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