Win Smith

Scarborough-Winthrop Noel Smith, 92, passed away peacefully at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House on August 30, 2026, surrounded by his loving family. Win was born on Christmas Day, 1933, in Paris, France to parents Elinore McLane Smith of Baltimore, Maryland and James Hopkins Smith of Portland, Maine. …After his discharge from the army, he entered the lumber industry in sales for his brother in-law’s retail lumber company, Rufus Deering. Feeling an entrepreneurial pull, he decided to venture out on his own and lease a mill in Limington, Maine in 1961, establishing Limington Lumber Company. …In 1967, Win purchased a new mill site in East Baldwin, Maine, where he built, owned, and operated a successful and respected lumber manufacturing company for over forty years… Win was a past president of the New England Lumbermen’s Association (NELA), a director of the Maine Forest Products Council (MFPC), and a director of Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association (NELMA).