The state Medical Examiner’s Office identified Monday the body of a lobsterman who had been lost at sea two week’s ago when his boat capsized off McKenney Point in Cape Elizabeth.

Authorities identified the body as that of Steve Smith, 50, of Hollis, whose family held a memorial service Friday, a day before his body was discovered at Crescent Beach by a Cape resident.

Cape Elizabeth Police Chief Neil Williams said a resident called just after 7 a.m. Saturday to report finding the body. Hobbes Funeral Home, South Portland, transported the body to the Maine Medical Examiner’s Office in Augusta where it was identified on Monday.

On Friday, more than 100 family members, friends and acquaintances overflowed an oceanside tent for a memorial service for Smith at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland.

“I always felt safe with him,” said a teary-eyed Lance Smith, 22, his only son, opening a series of stories told by friends and family. “I loved him very much.”

“Don’t be sad for him,” said April Smith, his wife. She told the mourners she always knew there was a chance the ocean would take Steve someday. “But I thought I’d be with him,” she said. The couple had taken several trips on their pleasure boat to Florida.

“I’ll love him for all my life,” she said.

The service for Smith, 50, was held on the Southern Maine Community College campus in South Portland, and officiated by the Rev. Bob White. It brought some measure of closure for the family of Smith, who was thrown overboard when his 38-foot lobster boat, the April Lee, was swamped Sept. 13 in rough seas. Lance Smith and friend Charles “Chip” Currier, both 22, were rescued, but there was no sign of Smith.

Family and friends who spoke both during and after the service remembered a generous husband, father, friend, landlord, lobsterman and diver. They repeatedly mentioned how much his family meant to him.

Steve and April were high school sweethearts, and started dating when April was 14 and Steve was 16, said Bruce Rossborough, a childhood friend of Smith’s, on Friday after the service.

“They used to ride around in Steve’s hot rods together,” said Rossborough. “You couldn’t peel them apart.”

“He was always very smart with engines and loved his motorcycles,” said Rossborough. Smith opened his own business, Steve’s Cycle Shop, after graduating from Bonny Eagle High School, he said.

“He was always adventurous,” said Elton “Bud” Smith, Steve’s father. As a child he liked to take things apart and put them back together.” He almost always got things to work again,” he said.

“He was a hell of nice guy,” said Kenny Stone, 53, of Hollis, who had known Smith his whole life. “He would do anything for people. We had a good time as kids.”

Smith started building and managing his own apartments in the Hollis area in 1982, calling the enterprise A&S Apartments. The company now owns 10 to 12 apartment buildings, said Stone.

“I helped him build his apartments,” said Stone. “He worked night and day to get those apartments together. He was a real hard worker.”

The staff of Spring Point Marina in South Portland, where Smith kept his boat, remembered him as a kind and helpful man who loved the water.

“When we had a storm, Steve would always be there pitching in and helping out,” said Paul Jensen, who managed the marina from 1980 to 2004. Steve Smith lived on his pleasure boat with his wife during the summer. He was always helpful and laid back, said Jennsen.

Chuckling, Jensen said the last time he saw him, Smith was upset because he had some leftover bait in his truck that he had bought at the end of a recent shark-fishing tournament, a charity fundraiser.

Jensen said by the time Smith got done hauling the bait around, he would have been better off to buy fresh bait, but Smith wanted to buy it because it was for charity. “That’s just the way he was,” he said.

“We couldn’t have a shirt and shoes policy with him around,” said Jones Reid, who works in the marina’s parts room, because Smith was always diving into the water for something.

“One time I was in a dingy waxing a boat and I dropped my glasses,” said Charles Patmoore of the marina. “Steve just dove in and found them.”

Smith was born on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, 1956, in Saco. In addition to his wife, son and father, Smith is survived by his mother, Alva Smith of Hollis, and two sisters, Karen Murray of Hollis and Sheryl Smith of St. Croix.

Elton Bud Smith of Hollis, Steve Elton Smith’s father, talks about Steve in front a small memorial to his son at a service on Friday. Lobster traps and pictures of Steve were surrounded by flowers at Friday’s, Sept. 22, memorial service by the ocean in South Portland. Crowds surrounded the tent in South Portland where a memorial service was held for Steve Smith on Friday, Sept. 22, as almost twice as many people came than there were seats available.