LEWISTON – The name of Androscoggin County Deputy Sheriff David Rancourt will be added to the Maine Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Augusta. He is the 82nd Maine police officer to die in the line of duty.

The annual memorial observance will take place at 11 a.m. Thursday, May 17th, at the site on State Street in Augusta.

Rancourt died the morning of Nov. 4, 2006, while diving with five others in the Androscoggin River below Veterans Memorial Bridge. Rancourt had headed up the Sheriff’s Department dive team. He was pulled from the water by other divers after signaling them for assistance, police said.

A husband and father, Rancourt was pronounced dead at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston shortly after arrival there.

Rancourt was remembered as a devoted family man and a dedicated police officer. He was the kind of man, friends said, that nobody could say a bad word about.

Rancourt was married to Dawn Rancourt, a former Lewiston police corporal now employed by the 911 communication center. He was also a member of the Army Reserve’s 619th Transportation Company and served two tours in Iraq.