Barbara Dyer remembered on Tuesday how her son always served her breakfast in bed on Mother’s Day.

“He was very thoughtful to everybody,” she said.

This year, Jeff Letellier of Hollis, 17, a Bonny Eagle junior, died four days before Mother’s Day. He lost his life in a two-car crash on Wednesday in Buxton.

Letellier loved sports. He served on the pit crew for his dad, Ray Letellier Sr. of Hollis, who raced a truck last year at Beech Ridge in Scarborough. “He was a tremendous Red Sox fan,” his mother said.

Her son loved cars and was restoring a Chevy pickup truck. He intended to paint it lime green, his favorite color. On Monday, Bonny Eagle students wore lime green T-shirts in his memory.

“He was a good all around kid. He had many friends,” she said.

The yard of Marie Dyer, Letellier’s grandmother who lives on Mary Jane Road in Buxton, has been full of teenagers since the accident. “Everybody loved him, you couldn’t help it,” Dyer said. “It’s rough, very rough,” Dyer said.

In Dyer’s yard, Gina Bruzzese of Buxton signed a wooden cross that would be placed at the accident scene. “My prayers are with you,” Bruzzese wrote.

Dyer described her grandson as always trying to give people a good laugh. She said he loved racecars. “He was studying automotives. That’s what he loved,” Marie Dyer said.

Many of Letellier’s friends have visited the roadside memorial on Route 112 where Letellier died. Alex Meserve, 12, picked up a piece from the car wreckage Friday. “May I have this?” he asked.

Meserve visited the memorial with his two brothers, Chris Rinaldi, 13, a Bonny Eagle Middle School student, and Travis Meserve, 10. Alex said Jeff was their cousin but was more like a brother.

Jeff Letellier’s cousin, Kayla Warren, 15, a Bonny Eagle sophomore, saw him every day in school. “Why him? He was such a good kid. He had everything going for him,” she said.

Also a sophomore, Robert Richards played basketball with Jeff after school on courts near the Bonny Eagle Middle School. “He was fun to hang out with,” Richards said. “If you were having a bad day, he’d make you laugh.”

Letellier’s friend and fellow Bonny Eagle junior Robert Malone of Limington was driving on Mary Jane Road in Buxton, following the car Letellier was riding in when he died. Malone saw the collision. He said Jeff was in the passenger seat and took “all the blow.”

“I wanted to get in the car, but it was all mangled,” said a distraught, emotional Malone on Friday. “He was always there for me. We were always around each other. I was the last person to see him.”

At the funeral Saturday, a former football teammate at Bonny Eagle, put his class ring in Jeff”s casket. “It was really touching,” Letellier’s mom said.

A woman whose son, Michael Boucher, rode to school on a bus with Letellier said on Friday that he was always ready to help someone. “He was a good boy,” she said looking at the memorial on Route 112. “It’s a tragedy.”

Although he didn’t know Letellier, a Buxton resident, Justin Pierce, stopped at the memorial on Friday. “It’s sad; he was so young,” Pierce said.

Bonnie Ramsdell of Limington, who is the mom of Bonny Eagle senior Kristy Gammon, said her daughter knew Jeff well. Ramsdell visited the memorial with Kristy’s grandmother, Charlotte Ramsdell. Bonnie said her daughter spent $20 she was saving for a graduation dress to buy flowers for the roadside memorial.

“It’s real tough on her,” Ramsdell said. “Bonny Eagle is a close-knit school. When something like this happens, the kids are right there.”

Bonny Eagle principal Sheila Jepson said Letellier was a decent kid, and he had a lot of friends. Letellier was also a student at the Westbrook Regional Vocational Center. Todd Fields, director at the school, said Letellier was a nice kid and very well respected by classmates and faculty.

His automotive instructor at the Westbrook school, Geoff Nelson, said Letellier had been selected as one of two from 30 applicants for a job at a car dealership. “He worked hard for this,” Nelson said.

Nelson described Jeff as a very bright young man. He said Jeff would have been earning a salary of $40,000-to-$50,000-a-year within three years. “He was on his way,” Nelson said.

Letellier made a habit of helping others. On the day he died, he had helped a friend with a truck repair at school in Westbrook. As a young child, he could take things apart and put them back together. “He was my fixer upper,” his mother said.

A roadside memorial marks the spot where Jeff Letellier died last Wednesday.