1961 – 2016

SCARBOROUGH — Kelly Thibodeau of Freeport passed away peacefully on Monday, Jan. 25, at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House, due to complications from chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer two years earlier.

Kelly was born in Rumford on Aug. 31, 1961, to late Lee and Virginia (Smith) Hutchins, the same day her late sister, Jill, was born six years earlier. She grew up in Bethel, where she attended local schools. She earned her medical assistant degree at Husson College in Bangor and was employed for 27 years by Doris Pennoyer, MD and Marguerite Pennoyer, MD.
On Oct. 23, 1993, she married Michael Thibodeau and their son, Landon, was born Aug. 13, 2001. Kelly’s vegetable and flower gardens were the envy of the neighborhood. In all seasons, she enjoyed spending time at the pond near their home with family and friends, swimming, boating and skating.
She is survived by her husband; son; brother, Michael Hutchins and wife, Janis; brother, Mark Hutchins; her mother-in-law, Edwina Thibodeau; brothers- and sisters-in-law, David and Bobbie Morrow, Clud and Gill Cyr, Linda Chalou, Ted and Marlene Johnston, Nola Thibodeau; and many nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her parents; sister, Jill Hutchins; sister-in-law, Pamela (Douglass) Hutchins; brother-in-law, Gilbert “Biff” John Lea; and her father-in-law, Fernand Thibodeau.