WEST PARIS – Elmer Lloyd Waterhouse, 91, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Saturday, March 13, 2021 with his loving family by his side. He was born on May 8, 1929 in Long Beach, Calif., son of Fred Warren Waterhouse and Shirley May (Molton) Waterhouse.

After his parents divorced he moved to Maine at the age of 3 with his father. He was raised by his father and paternal grandfather. His father remarried when Lloyd was 9. He went to school in West Paris and graduated from West Paris High School in 1947.

His first job was painting houses with his father. Later he worked in the woods with his uncle, George Waterhouse, for Alvah Hendrickson. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and trapping and his annual trip to the Allagash. He married Doris May Smith on June 18, 1950. They were married for 61 years until her death. He lived in West Paris most of his life. He and Doris raised four loving children, Kevin, Gary, Gail and Fred.

He was saved at Paris Hill Bible Church May 1968. Doris got saved a little later. Both got baptized in Lake Christopher. They left Paris Hill Baptist and with Pastor John King, they started a new church called New Hope which later joined with Hosanna Church in Oxford.

Pastor Lloyd started as a music leader and was asked to preach one Sunday and before you know it, he became a pastor, ordained in 1987.

In the early ’90s their little church became Grace Fellowship Church in Oxford. They met in every building that was available in town until they finally got their own church building with the encouragement of Bob Goss and many others.

Lloyd became pastor with Assistant Pastor Richard Parsons. Lloyd and Doris did the ministry together until her death. He married Betty Lewis (Doris’s best friend) and together they continued the ministry. Lloyd and Betty did everything together. She was always by his side at weddings, funerals, trapping, fishing, tapping sap, picking pussy willows, red berries, may flowers and fiddleheads. He always enjoyed sharing a message at the annual Trappers Convention in Bethel. Their love was a special love blessed by God. God gave them nine years together. In his words “To my Betty, thank you for saving my life, I love you”. He once preached a message titled “Love knocks twice”.

Everyone requested to have him as the minister at their loved one’s funeral. He had a special way of doing them and always told the plan of salvation at the end of each funeral. He expressed how the most important decision you can make is to accept Jesus into your heart. Many souls have been saved at these funerals.

His desire was that all his family would be saved. Pastor Lloyd Waterhouse had a pastor’s heart which is why he did his job so well.

He loved people and they loved him right back. He was well known for his love of the Red Sox and Fords (had to have a Ford pickup).

His favorite song was “How Great Thou Art” and he loved to have the “Lord’s Prayer” sung. His favorite Bible verse was Matthew 11:28-30.

He loved his family and was a wonderful husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather and friend.

A very loving and gentle man that will be missed by his family, church family, and many people whose lives he had touched.

He fought Leukemia for over four years, but he didn’t let that stop him. He had many treatments each month and still preached fulltime, did funerals, weddings and all his ministry duties until a year ago when he was blessed with an Assistant Pastor Phil Andrukaitis. He still preached once a month. His last Sunday message was Feb. 21, 2021.

He was predeceased by his first wife Doris.

He is survived by his wife Betty; his children, Kevin and special daughter-in-law Elaine Waterhouse, Gary Waterhouse and Bonnie Coffin, Gail Boutlier, and Fred Waterhouse; six stepchildren who called him “Papa”, Kelly and David Dyer, Robin and Lee Ellingwood, Scott and Judy Lewis, George and Kim Lewis, Bonnie Pratt and Jon Cook, and Betty and James Ostrander; brother, Phil and Dianne Waterhouse; many grandchildren; great-grandchildren; and great-great-grandchildren; many cousins; two of his best friends, Bob White and Ed Mains.

The family would like to thank Dr. Rausch and the staff at the infusion center at Central Maine Medical Center as well as Beacon Hospice for the excellent care he received at home.

We thank our three angels that helped take care of him at night, during his home hospice care, Gail Boutlier, Bonnie Coffin and Linda Ellingwood. We couldn’t have done it without you.

A private, family-only service will be held Saturday, March 20, at 11 a.m. at Grace Fellowship Church in Oxford. For those who are not family, the service will be live streamed on Lloyd’s obituary page at http://www.chandlerfunerals.com where you may also leave condolences for his family. The family requests no children under the age of 10 attend the service. Interment will be held in the spring at Wayside Cemetery in West Paris. Arrangements are under the care of Chandler Funeral Home and Cremation Service, 45 Main St., South Paris.

In lieu of flowers,

please donate to:

Grace Fellowship Church

P.O. Box 166

Norway, ME 04268

All donations received will go towards the parking lot paving project in

pastor’s name

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