LEWISTON – Harry Lee Stevens, 74, of Eustis, passed away Saturday, May 15, at Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston, after a sudden illness.

He was born Feb. 26, 1930, in Waynesboro, Pa., the youngest son of Charles W. and Madeline McNear Stevens. He spent his boyhood in Lewiston, until moving to Stratton in 1946 when his family purchased the White Front Garage as a family business. He married Sibyl Caldwell of Eustis on June 20, 1948.

He worked for the Dead River Company, hauling supplies to their logging camps, repairing their trucks and hauling pulpwood. He relocated his family to the Lewiston area where he worked as a Chevrolet mechanic for many years at area dealerships including Firbush, Puritan, Louis’ and Marcotte Chevrolet. He drove tractor trailer on the East Coast for several years.

He spent a long career with Seaward Construction, first supervising the construction of power lines and later as a millwright on hydroelectric construction. He was the manager of their Interstate Equipment garage in Eliot for about eight years. From 1972 to 1983, he resided in Dover, N.H.

In 1983, he took a job maintaining grooming equipment at Sugarloaf/USA, where he worked for the next 11 years, until his retirement. With the help of family, he built a home on a piece of family land on Eustis Ridge in 1984.

During his retirement years he still occasionally worked at Stratton Lumber operating equipment and grooming snowmobile trails for the Arnold Trail Snowmobile Club. He was a Past Master and 50-year member of the Mt. Bigelow Masonic Lodge #202.

Harry enjoyed his fmaily, his home on Eustis Ridge, and helping family and friends with the knowledge he gained from a life of working. He loved the lakes and mountains, hunting and fishing and four-wheeling with his family. There were many treasured times at his camp on Sebec Lake, Cedar Lodge. During the 1960s, he raced stock cars at Oxford Plains Speedway. He followed NASCAR closely and was a devoted Earnhardt fan. Harry was a source of strength, love and knowledge and is truly missed by his loved ones.

He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Sibyl; three sons, William and wife, Rebecca of Sabattus; Mark and companion, Lisa Satterfield of Poland and Scott and wife, Leah of Coplin Plantation; daughter, Helen Riendeau and husband, Michael of Berwick; brother, Roy and wife, Mary of Adirondack, N.Y; five granddaughters, Kelly Howard of Farmington, Jill Stevens of Poland, Amanda Lambert of Auburn, Sara Riendeau of Rochester, NH and Jocelyn Stevens of Coplin Plt.; grandson Jebediah Stevens of Coplin Plantation; three great-grandchildren, Brandon, Brookelyn and Brittney Durrell of Farmington and several nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by two brothers, Charles E. and William Stevens.