FORT KENT – The Criminal Investigation Division of the Maine State Police was still awaiting a final determination Monday by the state’s medical examiner on the cause of death of a 2-year-old boy who died at the Northern Maine Medical Center on the night of Sept. 8.

Lt. Dennis Appleton said Monday that while the medical examiner is “reasonably comfortable on the cause of death, nothing is on paper.”

He said it may be a day or two before an announcement is made by the medical examiner and the Attorney General’s Office.

Stephen Vance Ketzel died after he was brought to the Northern Maine Medical Center last Wednesday evening. Officials at NMMC reported the incident to state police.

A memorial service for the toddler was held Monday at the Daigle and Nadeau Funeral Home at Fort Kent. A funeral service will be held in Tallahassee, Fla., where the toddler was born, at a later date.

Ketzel is the son of Katherine Burkes of Fort Kent and Stephen Ketzel of Jacksonville, Fla.

Ketzel was taken to the medical center by his mother and her boyfriend, Scott Saucier, 26, both residents of 625 West Main St., Fort Kent.

Sgt. John York is heading the local investigation, working with several detectives.

The medical examiner’s office began an autopsy on the toddler last Thursday afternoon.

State police investigate all children’s deaths, a police spokesman has said.

Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said investigators have spoken with both the mother and Saucier. There are no other children in the household, he said.

Burkes, according to local police, comes from Florida and moved into town sometime this past summer, probably in July. She returned from Florida with Saucier who had lived there for some time.