OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Cecile A. Boutin Beland, 93, of Lewiston and formerly of Old Orchard Beach, passed away at St. Mary’s d’Youville Pavilion in Lewiston on June 20, 2014 of congestive heart failure.
Cecile was born in Auburn in 1920, one of six children born to Jacques and Alexina Boutin. She attended St. Louis School and Walton School and received her Certificate of High School Equivalency.
She worked at the Pepperell Mill in Lewiston, and with her husband, Amedee “Medi” Beland, she owned the Seaward Inn in Old Orchard Beach and later the Redwood Motel on Lisbon Road in Lewiston.
Cecile and Medi were active in the ice skating community of Lewiston-Auburn. They were members of the Skating Club, and Medi was well known in the hockey community.
In 1979, Cecile and Medi retired to Old Orchard Beach, where he died in 1980. In Old Orchard, Cecile was a member of St. Margaret’s Church, where she sang in the choir. In 2005, she moved to Ocean Pines, Md. to live with her daughter, Linda Beland Powers. Cecile returned to Maine in 2013, when she moved into Montello Heights in Lewiston.
Cecile was preceded in death by: her husband, Medi; her son, Raymond, who died in 1968 while a student at St. Peter’s School; her two brothers, Alcide and Philippe Boutin; and two sisters, Mary L’Heureux and Jacqueline Bilodeau.
She is survived by: her daughter, Linda Powers of Ocean Pines, Md.; one sister, Constance David of South Paris; four grandchildren, Tracey Goltz and her husband Daniel of Viroqua Wis., Audrey Powers of Seattle, Wash., Shane Powers of Columbia, Md. and Kathleen Powers of Bethesda, Md.; two great-grandchildren, Genesee and Hazel; and several nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Monday, June 23 at Funeral Alternatives at 25 Tampa St. in Lewiston. A funeral Mass will be offered at Holy Cross Church in Lewiston on Tuesday, June 24 at 11 a.m. Burial will follow the funeral at St. Peter’s Cemetery. Condolences may be expressed at funeralalternatives.net.
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