NORWAY – Michael J. Arsenault, 54, of Norway, died Monday, June 9, at Stephens Memorial Hospital.

He was born in Worcester, Mass., on Sept. 1, 1953, the son of Ernest and Ellen Hopkins Arsenault. He graduated from high school in Milford, Mass. While in school he was an actor in the play “The Mouse that Roared.”

He worked at Fasteners Co. in Massachusetts as a shipper/receiver. He also worked as a part-time radio announcer on Milford Public Radio.

After moving to Maine, he was employed at Wilner Wood Products and C. B. Cummings.

He was a community actor, starring in three plays, “Fiddler on the Roof” as the Rabbi, “Man of LaMancha” as the governor, and “Guys and Dolls” as a mobster.

He is survived by his wife, Albertha Adams Arsenault of Norway; his father of Oxford; three sisters, Margaret Brooks of Greenwood, Celia Chambers of Lyman, and Faith Ann Leduc of Oxford; an aunt, Juanita Bryce, and cousins of Norway; and cousins, Sue Sexton of Taunton, Mass., and Bill McGraw Jr. of Hyannisport, Mass.

He was predeceased by his mother.