Paul J. Courtemanche, 42 of Burlington, MA passed away on Sunday, January 23, 2022 in Burlington.  He was born in Methuen, MA, a son of Nancy (Lanctot) Trainor and the late Paul C. Courtemanche.

Paul greatest passion was astronomy.  He was a Stellafane Award winning amateur telescope maker and a member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston.  He is what he referred to as a sidewalk astronomer; setting up his telescopes for public viewing at Hampton, Salisbury, and Revere beaches, along with Boston Common, NYC, Hogback mountain, and the StangeCreek, Wormtown, and Fantasia music festivals. He gave thousands of people the chance to share in his love of viewing the heavens above, many for the first time.  He also enjoyed the outdoors hiking, trail running, canoeing, and challenged himself earning a black belt in Kenpo karate, running a marathon and a few triathlons.  He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. in Physics from UMASS Lowell and his Capstone project was a wheelchair mounted, fixed eye piece rotating telescope for disabled stargazers.

He is survived by his mother; Nancy Trainor and her husband Frank of The Villages, FL, his brother; Robert Courtemanche and his wife Denise of Londonderry, NH, by his sister; Diane Herdegen and her husband Shaun of Methuen, MA, by a step-brother; Frank Trainor and his significant other Vanessa of Mount Dora, FL, by a step sister; Tara Jones and her husband Phil and by several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.  He was predeceased by his father; Paul C. Courtemanche in 2020.

Visiting hours will be held Sunday, January 30, 2022 from 4:00pm to 7:00pm in the Douglas & Johnson Funeral Home, 214 Main St., Salem, NH.  A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday, January 31 ^st at 11:00am in St. Monica Parish, 212 Lawrence St., Methuen, MA.  In lieu of flowers memorials may be directed to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, NAMI, 331 Montvale Ave, 2 ^nd Floor, Woburn, MA 01801, 617-580-8541.