Reginald John Pomeroy

12/09/53 - 03/18/25 South Paris-Reginald (Reggie) J Pomeroy, 71, of Hebron, passed away on March 18, 2025, at the Maine Veterans Home in South Paris, where he had been a resident since January 30th. He was born in Lewiston, Maine on December 9, 1953 to Eddie and Yvette (Marois) Pomeroy.

Reggie lived in many towns in Maine as he grew up, as his father would buy a home, move the family into it, fix it up, and sell it. Reggie worked at several “mom and pop” stores that his parents owned, as well as the family chicken farm. He enjoyed playing basketball and baseball on school teams and he developed a love for the outdoors, becoming an avid fisherman and hunter.

He attended many area schools as the family moved around. He spent several years in schools in Greene where he developed several lifelong friends, and spent his senior year and graduated from Lewiston High School.

He enlisted in the US Army in 1972 and was stationed at Fort Riley Kansas. He was assigned to the Combat Support Company, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry. He served time in Germany and Vietnam and achieved the rank of Specialist First Class 5. He was trained as a diesel mechanic. Reggie also earned the National Defense Service Medal and a Sharpshooter Award forM-16 rifles. When the war ended, he was honorably discharged after serving for three years. He was very proud to have served his country.

After returning from the Army, he became a mechanic at Gates Formed Fiber textile manufacturing in Auburn.

He met his future wife, Nancy (Thurston) Pomeroy, in 1975 when he was home on leave from the Army. They married on June 29, 1980, living first in Lisbon, then moving to Hebron in 1993 where they have resided ever since.. They enjoyed dancing, going to movies, boating, snowmobiling, ice fishing, camping and fresh water fishing. They eventually got a seasonal campsite at Cupsuptic Campground in Oquossoc, which became their home away from home, and made many friends at the campground, who became their second family. They both loved children and were the campground grandparents to all the kids who grew up there. Reggie loved to fly fish and loved to teach the kids to fly fish as well. He would lend a hand to anyone who was having an issue with their camper or boat, whether they wanted help or not! He was very knowledgeable, a jack of all trades, and was sure his way was the only right way to fix things!  

He was a member of Court Street Baptist Church in Auburn, and was baptized later in his life and accepted Jesus as his savior. He served on the Board of Trustees for many years, and helped with many reconstruction and refurbishing projects of the church building.

Reggie and Nancy were proud to welcome their son Michael to the world in 1983. They supported him with his love of baseball, and were his Cub and Boy Scout leaders. They are so proud of the man he has become, his work ethic, his skill as an architectural design engineer, his excellent choice of a wife, Kristen (McKane) Pomeroy, who is like a daughter to them, and together they birthed our one and only beautiful granddaughter Kenzi Rose, the love of our lives!

He is survived by his devoted wife Nancy, his son Michael and wife Kristen and granddaughter Kenzi, a sister Linda Roberts and her husband Scott, two sisters-in-law Barbara Fisher and Peggy Vining, nieces Shanti (Chris) Skiffington, and Anjulee Nigam, a grandniece Ava and grandnephews Sam and Benjamin Skiffington, and all the campground grandkids. He was predeceased by his parents.

There will be a Celebration of Reggie’s Life on Saturday, June 14, 2025, at 10 am at the Fortin and Pinette Funeral Home  217 Turner St, Auburn, a light lunch at noon, then a graveside committal service and burial of half his ashes at Mount Auburn Cemetery, 200 Mount Auburn Avenue, Auburn at 1 pm. The service will be officiated by Pastor Daniel Johnston. For anyone wishing to continue, we will proceed after the burial to Height of Land on Route 17 in Rangeley for spreading some of his ashes there, at Reggie’s request. Then on Sunday June 15, at 10 am, a flotilla of boats will leave Cupsuptic Lake Park and Campground to go into Cupsuptic Lake and Mooselookmeguntic Lake, two of Reggie’s favorite fishing spots, where the rest of his ashes will be shot into the lakes from a muzzleloader that Reggie built years ago. For all activities of the weekend, we encourage everyone to wear camouflage, green and black checks, or red, white, and blue clothing, in Reggie’s honor.

In lieu of flowers, please donate online in Reggie’s memory to WoundedWarriorsProject.org or mail to them at PO Box 758516 Topeka Kansas 66675, or online to TravisMillsFoundation.org or mail to them at 647 Castle Island Road  Mount Vernon Maine 04352.