Lorna MacLean Terhune

Lorna MacLean Terhune died peacefully at her home on January 27, 2021 of complications from Parkinson’s disease. She was born in New York City to Robert Donald MacLean and May Isabel Appleby and attended the Nightingale-Bamford School there. She received her diploma from the Westover School in Middlebury, CT, and earned her bachelor’s degree in 1954 from Vassar College.

Not long after graduating, she became reacquainted with Yale grad Robert Terhune. The two married the next year and soon started a family and moved to Florida where Bob was ordained as an Episcopal priest. After a decade in Florida, they relocated to Houston where they lived for 35 years.

Lorna loved her family above all else, and having lost her own parents early in life, she was the mother she never had for her own children. She adored children and after her own were all in school, she made a career teaching young children in the Montessori method. She pursued this interest earning a M.Ed. from Tulane University and serving as an officer in both the Houston and American Montessori Societies.

In 2005, after celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, she and Bob decamped to Austin to be near their daughters and grandchildren.

Lorna was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi honor societies, and a life-long member of the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames and The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York.

She is survived by her husband and their four children, son Andrew (Janice McMillen), daughters Leila, Kristin Sjoberg, and Teddy, her brother Robert (Audrey) MacLean, grandchildren Danielle, Bob (Courtney), and Michael Patton; Allison Leatherwood (Hogan), John, and Robert Sjoberg; Andrew, Joe, Nick, and Sam Turner; and two great-grandchildren, Wicks and Beau Patton.

The funeral service will be held Thursday, February 4, at 11:00 AM Central time. Owing to Covid restrictions, only immediate family will be in attendance but you can view the service with this link: https://gsaustin.org/special-services-and-presentations/

In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory can be made to the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, P.O. Box 5176, Austin, TX 78763 or to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, P.O. Box 5014, Hagerstown, MD 21741-5014.