PORTLAND – Roy M. Tudor, 76, joined Jesus on Sunday, Feb. 20, 2005, after a valiant fight with cancer. He was born March 3, 1928, in Neche, N.D., the son of Del William and Pearl Norris Tudor. Roy served in the U.S. Air Force at the end of World War II, as a weatherman aboard B-29’s, flying through cyclones and nuclear tests in the Pacific. Roy was a second generation Border Patrol officer, beginning as a U.S. Border Patrol Inspector in 1953 in Langtry, Texas. He was the original officer in charge of the Border Patrol Station in Fort Fairfield, Maine in 1956. During his career he advanced to Senior Patrol Inspector, Immigration Inspector and retired in 1981 as a Criminal Investigator for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in Portland, Maine. He served in Texas, Maine, Arizona, Florida and California. After his federal retirement, he served as a police officer at the University of Southern Maine in Portland for eleven years. Roy was a popular stock car driver in Champaign, Ill., in the early 50’s. Roy was a Boy Scout leader in Indio, Calif., and Calais. He was a girl’s softball coach in Portland, an NRA pistol shooting instructor, a founder and president of the International Law Enforcement Association, and was president of the Maine Mineralogical and Geological Society. In addition to his parents, Roy was predeceased by his stepmother, Pearl Anderson Tudor; and one brother, Del William Tudor. Roy is survived by his wife, Helen Cyr Tudor of Portland; son, Dale Tudor and wife, Mary Ann Johnson, of Brewer; son, Kenneth Tudor of Bangor; daughter, Kimberly Tudor of Portland; granddaughter, Erin Tudor of Lexington, Mass.; grandson, Jeffrey Tudor of Red Feather Lakes, Colo.; and step-granddaughters, Katie Johnson of Albuquerque, N.M. and Molly Johnson of Orlando, Fla. Roy has three surviving sisters, Donna Engle of Adelanto, Calif.; Louise Wing of Yuma, Ariz.; Sylvia Hatzenbuhler of Norco, Calif.; several nieces and nephews. A celebration of Roy’s life will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 26 at the Stevens Avenue Congregational Church, Portland. Arrangements are by Conroy-Tully Crawford Funeral Homes and Cremation Services, 172 State St., Portland. Memorial contributions may be made to the Katahdin Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, PO Box 1869, Bangor, ME 04402-1869, or to St. Joseph’s Manor, 1133 Washington Ave., Portland, ME 04103.
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