SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Ronald Beauregard, 57, of San Francisco, Calif., died July 20, after a courageous four-month battle with lung cancer and head tumor. His sister, Sandra and brother, Roger, were by his side.

He was born in Auburn, July 31, 1948, the son of Robert and Germaine (Roy) Beauregard. He attended school at Sacred Heart, then graduated from ELHS in 1966. After high school, he went to Hartford, Conn., where he received his master’s degree in 1972, at the University of Hartford.

While attending college, he worked in the office of Hotel Sonesta and also at the Institute for the Living, before moving to San Francisco, where he was manager of the apartment complex where he lived. He also worked in banking and worked 10 years at AIRS, a school for troubled teenagers. He later did catering.

He took courses in photography and was very good at it. He was a people person and made a lot of wonderful friends and helped others with a smile. He sometimes used his days off helping food shelters feed the homeless.

Besides his mother, he leaves his sister, Sandra Hanson of Vermont; two brothers, Roger Beauregard and wife, Janice, of Massachusetts and Robert Beauregard and companion, Pauline Boilard, of Lewiston and her daughter, Lisa of Lewiston and Lisbon; his nephew, Sean Beauregard; and nieces, Kimberlee Beauregard of Massachusetts and Kelly Beauregard of Lewiston.

He was predeceased by his father, Robert Beauregard in 1971; his stepfathers, Armand St. Hilaire in 1986 and Larry Bilodeau in 2000; his maternal grandparents, Xavier and Lumina Roy; and paternal grandparents, Ozias and Clara Maheux Beauregard, both of Lewiston.