BRUNSWICK – John H. MacDonald, 69, of Bowdoinham, died Sunday, March 30, at a Brunswick hospital.

He was born in Primrose PEI, Canada, on April 23, 1938, a son of Neil D. and Mary Gardiner MacDonald. His family moved to the United States in the mid-1950s, where he continued to live in the Boston area until moving to Maine in 1976. He married Bonnie A. Rancourt in Brunswick in August 1990.

He was self-employed as a building contractor most of his life and was a skilled woodworker. He was an avid outdoorsman and appreciated all that nature had to offer; he was a hunter, a fisherman, enjoyed hiking in the woods and spending time at his camp on Moosehead Lake. He was very knowledgeable about different plant and animal species and looked forward to his time with his grandchildren and the chance to impart his love and wisdom of nature to them.

He was a New England Patriots fan, and pleasured in living vicariously through his grandchildren’s participation in ice-hockey, which he had also enjoyed in his childhood. He was a member of St. John the Baptist Church, Brunswick.

He is survived by his wife, Bonnie of Bowdoinham; a daughter, Deborah Duncan and her husband, Tom, of Georgetown, PEI, Canada; a brother, Wallace MacDonald and his wife, Harriet, of Primrose, PEI; three sisters, Frieda Collins and her husband, Charlie, of Hamilton, Ontario, Josephine Hadden and her husband, Bill, of Summerside, PEI, Ann Gallant and her husband, Johnny, of Winslow, PEI; a stepson, Douglas Doyer and his wife, Roxanne, of Mechanic Falls; a sister-in-law, Glenda MacDonald of Montague, PEI; five grandchildren, John and Morgan Duncan of Mechanic Falls, Alexandra, Olivia, Victoria Doyer of Georgetown, PEI; and a host of nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his first wife, Joan Kenny; a sister, Jean Poulin; and a brother, Alfred MacDonald.