WESTON – Cynthia Amelia McLain passed away Dec. 16, 2010, at a Portland hospital. Originally from Baltimore in the Overlea area, her special love for the Pine Tree state developed from her early childhood days when her father had a hunting lodge and built what is now known as Living Waters. While still a resident of Maryland, she would spend summers with the Hayman’s on East Grand Lake, only a few camps down from the land her father originally owned. By the early 1990s she had relocated from Maryland, where she and her husband built their home in Weston. She often remarked that she saw the beauty of God in every sunrise and sunset, in every aspect of nature. She loved to cook and had a special love for her job at the Residential Center, Danforth. She was the beloved wife for more than three decades to Daniel E. McLain; devoted mother of Daniel J. McLain and Cynthia M. Fahnestock-Schafer of Baltimore; and sister to Brian Vecchio and Michael Vecchio of Maryland. She was predeceased by her parents, Pat and Dolores Vecchio; and eldest brother, Orland Vecchio. Pursuant to her own wishes as expressed to her family, there will be no formal memorial service, instead she requested, “for people to have a good meal and celebrate her life and not mourn her death.” In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be sent in her name to CancerCare of Maine, 33 Whiting Hill Road, Brewer, ME 04412. Comments may be left online at www.clayfuneralhome.com.
CYNTHIA AMELIA MCLAIN
