SULLIVAN HARBOR – Harris L. McLean Jr. passed away March 13, 2006, at his home in Sullivan. He was born Oct. 28, 1919, in Bar Harbor, the son of Harris L. and Fannie Joyce McLean. He was educated in the public schools of Bar Harbor. An alumnus of the University of Maine, he graduated from the School of Banking at Williams College and the School of Financial Management, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University. A veteran of World War II, he was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy, serving with the Pacific Fleet and Task Force Group, Destroyer Duty. After he was discharged from the Navy, he was employed by Clark-Babbitt International, West Hanover, Mass., as a project engineer at the Naval Ordnance Plant Shumaker, Camden, Ariz., and at plants in Ohio and Tennessee in the Naval Rocket and Missile Program. After returning to Maine he was employed by the Hancock County Cold Storage Inc., building one of the first freezing plants in Maine. He obtained further education and was employed as an assistant to the president of the Liberty National Bank, Ellsworth 1958-1960, vice president 1960-1967 and president and chief executive officer 1967-1979. In 1967, the Liberty National Bank affiliated with the Depositors Trust Co. forming the Depositors Corp., the first active statewide bank holding company in Maine since 1934. He was elected chairman of the board of the Depositors Trust Company of Eastern Maine in 1979. On Jan. 1, 1982, he retired to devote his time to his many interests. He served on the board of the Maine Bankers Association; was chairman of the Consumer Credit Committee of the MBA; treasurer of the Ellsworth Rotary Club for many years; chairman of the Maine Coast Memorial Hospital; trustee of the Col. Black House and the Stanwood Wildlife Foundation; treasurer of the Hancock Development Corp.; member of the Ellsworth Planning Board and City Council; a director of Eastern Maine Development Corp.; a founder and president of the Ellsworth Junior Chamber of Commerce; a member of the Regional Advisory Board to the Administrator of National Banks; a member of the Community Bankers Committee of the American Bankers Association; a certified Commercial Lender of the ABA; trustee and deacon of the Congregational Church; member of the Newcomen Society, Lygonia Lodge No. 40, AF & AM, Scottish Rite Bodies of ME and Anah Temple A.A.O.N.M.S., the ARRL holding Amateur License K1LOV; an active member of SCORE, the St. Andrews Society, the Maine Genealogical Society and the New Brunswick Genealogical Society, the United Empire Loyalist of Canada and the Mayflower Society as a descendant of Miles Standish, John and Priscilla Alden, William Mullens, Richard Warren, and Henry Sampson; the Pierre Monteux Foundation, the Thorsen Education Fund, the board of the Maine Seacoast Mission, the Geo. E. Kirk Post No. 25, American Legion and the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. He was predeceased by his wife of 50 years, Mary Simmons McLean. He is survived by two daughters, Marney Lynn Pineda-Perez of Hollister, Calif., and her daughter, Andrea Schultz of Paso Robles, Calif., and Rosamond Joyce McLean of Sullivan Harbor and her sons, Jessen Bruce Wehrwein and his wife, Julie; and his great-grandson, Keegan; and great-granddaughter, Aquinnah of Newburyport, Mass., and Joshua McLean Wehrwein and his wife, Melanie, of New Market, N.H.; a sister, Joyce McLean Mahler and her husband, Lloyd P., of Kennebunk; nephews, Kenneth Mahler of Gray, Stephen Mahler of Kennebunk, Douglas Mahler of Scarborough, Peter Mahler of Westford, Mass.; and nieces, Maribeth Williamson of Gorham, Debra Mahler of Kennebunk, Jane Whetstone of Kennebunk; a sister-in-law, Ruth Simmons of East Providence, R.I., and her four children, Dr. James Simmons of Barrington, R.I., Nina Simmons of Eugene, Ore., Fred Simmons of Alexandria, Va., Linda Simmons of Waterbury Center, Vt.; and a very special friend, Shirley Nelson of Ellsworth. At the request of the family, there will be no visiting hours. A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. March 25 at the Hancock Union Congregational Church UCC, Hancock, officiated by the Rev. John Holt. Interment will be at the York Hill Cemetery, Sullivan Harbor. If friends wish, contributions may be made in his memory to the Hancock Union Congregational Church UCC, P.O. Box 98, Hancock, ME 04640. Arrangements by Jordan-Fernald, 113 Franklin St., Ellsworth.
HARRIS L. MCLEAN JR.
