SOUTH BROOKSVILLE – Mary Anne Beaumont Sutherland, 91, passed away peacefully Thursday, June 16, 2005, at her home in South Brooksville. Mary Anne graduated from Hathaway Brown School in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., Class of 1936. She attended the Julliard School of Music, The Cleveland Institute of Music and the Suvette School of Music, studying under Pianists Beryl Rubenstein and Severin Eisenberg. Mary Anne was director of music at Old Orchard Day School in Indianapolis and first director at Turquoise Trial Expedition of the Cottonwood Gulch Foundation in New Mexico. After marrying the Rev. Malcolm R. Sutherland Jr., she was active in USC Service Camps in Mexico, Brooks, Maine and Keene, N.H. She taught at Hyde Park Children School in Chicago, Davis Nursery School in Charlottesville, Va., and Francis Parker School in Chicago where her mother, Grace, had taught years before. She served actively in the Junior Leagues of Cleveland, Indianapolis, Richmond, Va., Washington, D.C., Boston and Chicago, as well as the Garden Clubs of Milton, Mass., Chicago, Brooksville and Harvard, Mass. As a resident of Harvard, she served on the boards of the Friends of the Library, the Council for the Aging, Harvard H.E.L.P. and the Ayer Area Guidance Center, and was a member of the Women’s Club and the Pro Music choral society. Mary Anne traveled extensively with her husband throughout the United States, as well as Great Britain, Western and Eastern Europe, New Zealand, and the Far East. She was a long-time summer resident of South Brooksville and recently moved there year round. Thoughts of her love and enthusiasm for music, gardens, sailing, picnic adventures, wheelchair races, chocolate ice cream and raspberry sorbet will always be with us. Mary Anne is survived by her son, Malcolm III; her daughter, Maryanne B.; daughter-in-law, Linda; and three grandchildren, Nicole, Drew and Ian. A memorial service will be held 4 p.m. Wednesday, June 22, at the South Brooksville United Methodist Church. In lieu of flowers, contributions in her memory may be sent to Hospice of Hancock County, 14 McKenzie Ave., Ellsworth, ME 04605.
MARY ANNE BEAUMONT SUTHERLAND
