SCARBOROUGH — Reginald W. Boutin of Pine Point, Scarborough, died Dec. 4, at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House as a result of cancer, with which he was afflicted for more than six years. Until recently, however, he was able to reside in the community and remain very active in family and neighborhood activities.

He was affectionately known to many as “Reggie” and “Gramps.” He was born in Lewiston on Dec. 29, 1927, to Yvonne Goulet Boutin and Cyrille J. Boutin. He graduated from Lewiston High School in 1945. After high school, he entered the Army, serving as part of the Occupation Army of Japan. He was quietly proud of his service, but liked to recall his climb of Mt. Fuji in army boots. Reggie later attended Bentley College of Accounting and Finance in Boston, Mass. on the GI Bill, graduating in 1950.

Until he retired to Pine Point in 1993, he resided in Lewiston, where he worked for the Philips Elmet Corp. and then at the B. Peck Company, a well-known department store, where he served as controller for over 20 years. During this period, he served as a community volunteer, including service on the Board of Directors of the Lewiston-Auburn School for Retarded Children, as the treasurer for Faith Works, a social services organization, and as a Little League coach. He later worked for the state of Maine in Augusta, where he became the first director of the Abandoned Property Division. He was recognized nationally for his work in this field. He was a communicant at St. Maximilian Kolbe Catholic Church in Scarborough.

Reggie was a physically active man and enjoyed playing golf, bowling, ice skating and even mastered roller blading in his 60s. When he resided in Lewiston, it was not unusual for him to cut, split and stack four cords of wood each winter, produce his own maple syrup and maintain a sizable garden, while embroiled in a long battle with a seemingly indestructible woodchuck.

“Gramps” loved to visit with family members and the larger the gathering, the better. He also was a committed Bentley alumni and regularly attended class reunions there. He was a most faithful and long-suffering fan of the Red Sox, having first listened to rebroadcasted games reported by telegraph, but was later rewarded with two world championships.

He is survived by his wife, Mary Dexter Boutin; and by three children, Sherman L. Lahaie. of New Hampshire and Scarborough, and his fiancee, Patricia Biron, Anne-Mayre Dexter and her husband, Dennis S. Danie, of South Portland, and Daniel W. Boutin and his wife, Ann E. Adams, of Portland. He also leaves six grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; nephews, James J. Boutin of Yarmouth and Stephen Thompson of Hallowell; and a niece, Susan Thompson, of Topsham.

He is predeceased by his brother, Roland W. Boutin, of Portland.

Special thanks are given to the caring and attentive staffs at the Sam L. Cohen Rehabilitation Center at The Cedars in Portland and at the Gosnell House.

And finally, GO SOX!