PORTER - Louis Everett Saucier SR, age, 82, passed away peacefully on June 6, 2025. He was the oldest child and only son of Romanio Saucier of Fort Kent and Alberta Fox Saucier of Porter. He was born on March 2, 1943 in Hiram and has lived his entire life in Porter. He graduated from Porter High School in 1962. Everyone who knew him called him Louie.
Louie was a very hard worker. As a youngster he mowed lawns and washed windows. He was tall and looked mature for his age. At fourteen years old he worked in the woods logging with the Roberts Brothers (claiming he was sixteen). Then, he worked at Churchill Motors detailing cars. It was there he bought some great cars - like a beautiful 1959 Buick Convertible, white with blue leather interior and a black top. He always had money in his pocket and gave much of it to his mother to hold for him. He worked at Aetna, Masonry Building Construction in NH, the Box Shop and the Woolen Mill, as a weaver on piece-work. By 1972 he returned to Aetna where he remained until retirement. Aetna became ITT and then Vulcan Electric. He became a floor leader and developed a great passion for cost reductions, creating tools, solving problems and designing products. If he was told something couldn’t be done, and he believed it could - he proved it, time and time again. He was the creator of many firsts in the heating element industry. He attributed his accomplishments to common sense and keeping things simple. He was a self-made engineer and loved the research and development of new products and improving old ones. He worked at Vulcan Electric for 33 years, retiring in 2005. However, he continued working as a consultant.
In 1969, he married Elayne Mota-Nickerson (currently of Madawaska Maliseet First Nation, NB, Canada) and became an instant father of her four young boys. In 1971, Louis JR was born. He loved his family and worked up to sixty hours a week providing for them. During the October/November trapping season he would tend traps at nights and on weekends. He sold fox, coon, otter, muskrat and fisher cat pelts and put the money toward Christmas for his five boys. He also enjoyed being a Pop to three foreign exchange students while the boys were in high school; Kokan from Yugoslavia and Marcelo and Fab (Fabrico) from Brazil. He always had a great vegetable garden and canned whatever he harvested. For years, he picked up to sixty pounds of fiddleheads each spring and enjoyed growing potatoes for the winter. He liked to cook and made a great curried chicken, spaghetti sauce and perfectly seasoned steak. In 1992 he married Laurie Elaine Brunk. They built a wonderful life and did everything together. The most important thing to Louie was his family. He loved making the homestead he built, a place his family could always come to and make fun memories. Louie was kind hearted and would help anyone and often loaned people money. He was a man of routine, starting each day with instant coffee, two toast with nearly a half stick of butter and a newspaper. He loved a good cold beer and a very slow ride around Bickford Pond every single day.
Louie loved the outdoors; hunting, trapping, fishing, boating and gardening. In earlier years, he had a coon dog and rabbit dog. He enjoyed duck, partridge and turkey hunting. His greatest passion was deer hunting and climbing mountains. As a toddler, he went hunting with his mother. He was given his first gun at eight years old and by the age of ten was hiking over the mountain to his grandmother’s house in Kezar Falls Village, by himself. He shot his first deer when he was eleven, a 215 pound - 10 point buck. During his lifetime he shot over one hundred deer and boasted an impressive 20-plus bucks weighing 200 – 245 pounds. He also loved bear hunting - on equal terms - with no bait and no dogs - and shot 13. In 2004, he designed and created the Saucier’s L.S.Game Drag, a specialty drag rope with pocket-size handles for dragging deer and bear out of the woods.
He is predeceased by his stepson, William “Billy” M. Nickerson and his dear nephew Dean Murray, who was the greatest inspiration in his life.
Louis is survived by his loving wife of nearly 33 years and best friend, Laurie Brunk Saucier and their dog Gabbie; his first wife and friend, Elayne Nickerson-Saucier of NB, Canada; two sisters, LaVerne Fox Saucier and Mike of Porter, Carol Saucier and Mike of Limington; one son, Louis (Butch) Saucier JR of Porter; three step-sons; Wayne Nickerson and Karen of Bangor; Mike Nickerson and Sue of Albany, NH, David Nickerson and Teri of Gorham; grandchildren, Zach Curtis of FL, and Nick Saucier and fiance Brooke of Parsonsfield; step-grandchildren; Ariel, Brandon, Callie, Bailey, Logan, Tristan; nine step-great grandchildren and nephews and nieces, Jeremy, Jessica, Tamara, Jon, Jace and Jessie.
At Louie’s request there will be no funeral or visiting hours.
Online Condolences may be submitted to Poitras, Neal & York Funeral Home at mainefuneral.com
In lieu of flowers, online donations may be made to the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital
In Memory of Dean Murray (per Louie’s request) Or Mail Donations To: The Barbara Bush Philanthropy Dept., 22 Bramhall St.
Portland, ME 04102
Arrangements have been entrusted to Poitras, Neal & York Funeral Home, Cornish, www.mainefuneral.com