Theodore Ted DROUIN

SACO - Theodore Ted Drouin, 71, a resident of Fairhaven Avenue, passed away Sunday morning, Nov. 13, 2005, at Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford, with family by his side, after a brave, strong and steadfast battle against cancer. Ted (known to many family and friends as Cookie) was born March 29, 1934 in Biddeford to Alma (LaBrecque) and Theodore Drouin, the renowned boxer known as Ted Kid Drew. Ted was an outstanding football player, graduated from Biddeford High School in 1952 and married his high-school sweetheart, Arlene Richard. Ted worked for Libby and Dow and served for many years as Director of Public Works in Biddeford under numerous mayors and councilmen until his retirement in 1995. He enjoyed his cats and dogs, tanning on the beach by his home, baking cakes, building and remodeling his homes and entertaining friends and family. Ted enjoyed a good joke, had a hearty laugh and took great pleasure from life. He was wholeheartedly devoted to Arlene, his wife of 49 years, and shared many off-color laughs with his daughter Kim Drouin and his son-in-law, Jonathan Birnberg of Boston, Mass. In addition to his wife, daughter and son-in-law, Ted is survived by his sister, Claudette and her husband Bill Daniels ofValparaiso, Ind.; his cousin, Roland Regis and his wife, Margaret and his nieces and nephews. He enjoyed the doting he received from his niece, Doreen DeNormandie-Smith of St. Petersburg, Fla., and his nephew, Bruce DeNormandie of Sterling, Va., and the many laughs he shared with friend Tom Fleurant and his wife Lorraine. He adored Becky Southwick and his adopted granddaughter Katie Lord and loved so many others, too numerous to mention. Visiting Hours will be 4-8 p.m., Tuesday, from Cote Funeral Home, corner of Beach and James St., Saco. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m., Wednesday, from Notre Dame de Lourdes Church in Saco.