Anna Marie Bolduc

Anna M. Bolduc
1951-2025
Anna Marie Bolduc, 73, of Auburn passed from this present world into the glory of the eternal kingdom of Jesus Christ on Monday, April 28, 2025.
She was born in Portland on September 14, 1951, the eldest child of Edward J. and Ethel "Tootie" P. DiPietro, with a brother, James, and a sister, Terry.
She spent her childhood and early adulthood in Ferry Village of South Portland in close community with several other extended family members on Sawyer Street, in particular her Uncle Bernard and Aunt Phyllis Faunce, who would remain for decades a strong foundation and solace for her after the tragic and untimely death of her well-beloved father, Edward, at age eleven. These early years formed a love and devotion for family, close community, and coastal Maine that lasted throughout her life and continues still today in the lives of her children and grandchildren.
It was in the mid-1970s, during the challenging season of life as a working-class single mother of two young children, Michelle and Michael, that she heard the good news of Jesus Christ and believed and submitted her life in faith to him as Creator God, Lord of Life, and Savior of all things in heaven and on earth. Her life from that point was never the same. Changed for the better by the unconditional love of Jesus, experiencing the comfort and guidance of the Holy Spirit, her life became an ever-flowing fountain of selfless love, long-suffering patience, calmness, and service and joy and peace toward everyone she met and knew. Her big, beautiful brown eyes shined always with joy and love and, as the window into her soul, they spoke sweetness and hope and lovingkindness to everyone she met.
During this season of life, she also began work at Data General in Westbrook. It was here that she would meet Larry Charles Bolduc of South Portland who, through the help of his good friend and co-worker, Peter Bernier, mustered up the courage to ask this sweet, godly, and beautiful, brown-eyed girl out on a date for coffee.
The rest is history, as they say, and Larry and Anna married on May 16th, 1981; devoting themselves to one another in holy matrimony in the presence of God and men, in the name of Jesus Christ, according to God's holy law. Through the encounter of a myriad of circumstances and events, they would affirm and prove their wedding vows to have and hold one another from that day forward. They did so in truth for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, loving and cherishing one another until death them did part.
To their family Larry and Anna added another daughter, Jessica, and son, Matthew in the 1980s. Living throughout Greater Portland, Maine, always with her family, Anna devoted her life to loving and serving her family, her church, and everyone else she encountered along the way. She homeschooled her children and worked as a homemaker, filling her home with baked goods and delicious meals and her beautiful singing voice inherited from her father's musical family. She taught children's Sunday school and worked various part-time jobs that allowed her to exercise her creativity and gifts of hospitality, generosity, care, and service. As her children grew older, she worked various jobs in the care industry which afforded her the opportunity to lovingly devote her time and energy to her adult children and young grandchildren. Most recently, after retirement, she worked part-time with Goodwill's day program in Lewiston, where she faithfully gave her genuine heart of compassion and joy to her co-workers and clients alike.
Anna will always be remembered for her love for God which manifested itself most powerfully in her quiet and yet steady love toward others, her selflessness, her warmth, patience, meekness, sweetness, tenderness, her hospitality, her generosity, her love for big family meals, holidays, cooking, baking, flowers, road trips, the ocean, quality time together, always giving without asking in return. Her sweet and tender spirit will be greatly missed by all who knew her.
Surviving are her husband of nearly 44 years, Larry; her brother James DiPietro of Westbrook, her sister Terry Sangnier (née DiPietro) and husband Leon of Trenton; her four children, daughter, Michelle DiBiase (née Domini) and husband Craig of Fayetteville, North Carolina, son Michael Devlin Domini of Westbrook, daughter Jessica DeRienzo (née Bolduc) and husband Joseph of Auburn, and son Matthew Bolduc; her fourteen grandchildren, Michael (Razel), Joshua, Brianna, Keely, Orianna, Samuel, Joseph, Noah, Matthew, Lilianna, Jonathan, Micah, Ella, and Toby; two great-grandchildren Ashley and Mikey; and her many beloved aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, and nephews and close friends.
Arrangements made by the Hobbs Funeral Home, 230 Cottage Road, South Portland. There will be a graveside service at Forest City Cemetery on Tuesday, May 6th, at 2:00pm.
A memorial celebration of life service will be held on Saturday, May 17th at 4:00pm until 6:00pm at Community of Grace in Westbrook (355 Bridgton Road).
All who knew and loved Anna are welcome.
Rather than flowers or donations to a benefit, Anna would want you to know, genuinely, the love of God in Jesus Christ. She would want to see you again at the great table she's helping prepare in the eternal heavenly kingdom of Jesus Christ that is soon coming to this earth and will know no end. "Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you too will be saved" (Romans 10:9).
Anna is waiting for us; ready to welcome us all with her beautiful smile and a hug of warmth and eternal joy.
They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
they shall run, and not be weary;
and they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31