A 36-year-old Watertown man who was killed after he was hit by a tractor-trailer on the Maine Turnpike in Kittery, Maine early Saturday will be buried at Bellevue Cemetery in Lawrence, according to an obituary . Chhoeunly Phoeung, the Massachusetts man, was driving a Mazda CX-5 southbound on the Maine Turnpike around 3:10 a.m.
Saturday when he left the highway and struck his car several times at the entrance to the Maine State Police weigh station, Massachusetts State Police said in a statement. After Phoeung crashed his car, he walked into traffic on the turnpike and was struck by a tractor-trailer, according to the statement. Friends and relatives are invited for a visitation at Cataudella Funeral Home at 126 Pleasant Valley St.
in Methuen on Thursday, June 6, from 3 to 7 p.m., the obituary read.
A service will follow in the funeral home’s chapel on Friday, June 7, at 8 a.m. and will conclude with his interment at Bellevue Cemetery in Lawrence.
Known as “Chilly,” he was born in Lawrence on April 22, 1988, before his family moved to Methuen, his obituary read. A 2006 graduate of Methuen High School, he was a “born creative type” who attended the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where he received his bachelor’s degree in graphic design. “He was a successful graphic designer, most recently working as the art director for Kenzie Academy,” read the obituary.
He stayed in the Merrimack Valley area, where Phoeung met his partner Ryan L’Italien. They moved.
