Wellfleet: On June 30 as an evening shooting star streaked overhead, Sarah Lee Paine Curley passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by her loving family after a long battle with cancer. Sarah was born at Cape Cod Hospital in 1958, a thirteenth generation Cape Codder, and the third child of seven of the late Robert and Cynthia Paine. She attended schools in Raymond, New Hampshire, and later graduated from Northfield Mt. Hermon School in 1975, spending her summers in Wellfleet working at her parent's campground. Her dream to be a fashion designer brought her to Chamberlain College in Boston. She created a line of fashion there but ended her education to open a fabric store in Wellfleet called the Cotton Field Connection. In 1979, she married Stephen Curley, and they started a family.
Sarah was an active community member since her first two boys, Ryan (1984) and Dustin (1985), were quite young and she coached their soccer team while running her fabric store and helping out with her husband Steve’s business, Nauset Carpenters. She became a Cub Scout leader and then a Boy Scout leader while operating her business The Furies Cleaning Services which she built up and after thirty years sold in 2016. Most recently she served as co-president for the Business and Professional Women of Lower Cape Cod. Sarah served on the Finance Committee for the Town of Wellfleet, and also lent her considerable talents to the board of the Wellfleet Chamber of Commerce. In 1999, Sarah graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree from UMass Dartmouth at the top of her class and gave the valedictory speech while pregnant with her third child, Colin. Colin (2000) allowed her to once again turn to the land of wonder that young children bring with them, and she continued to be a scout leader, trekker, kayaker, ice skater and skier just as she thought those years might be winding down as her older boys were on their way. Sarah was proud to see her son Colin become an Eagle Scout in January, and the Nauset Regional School System was very kind in producing a home graduation ceremony for Colin this June so Sarah could watch him receive his high school diploma.
Sarah’s hands were always busy. She was an excellent seamstress and knitter, writer, guitar player, and flutist. Her energy was boundless, and she woke up every morning at 5:00 AM to work, but at the end of the day she enjoyed going out to hear music and dance after a hard day’s work. She loved to sing karaoke, and she could really belt it out. She and her husband Steve enjoyed their second home on Perkins Pond, in Sunapee, New Hampshire, where she enjoyed friends, family, neighbors and relaxing on the lake.
Sarah is survived by her husband, her three sons and her six siblings: Irene Paine of Yarmouth Port, MA, Robert Paine of S. Wellfleet, MA, Naomi Paine of Carolina Beach, NC, Amy Paine of Truro, MA, William Paine of San Rafael, CA, and Evelyn Paine of Yarmouth Port, MA. She has dozens of nieces and nephews, grandnieces and nephews, cousins, and in-laws. Memorial donations can be made in her name to the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation (Oif.org) which she actively supported in the hope that future generations will not have to suffer as her boys have. Visiting hours will be at Nickerson Funeral Home, 77 Eldredge Parkway, Orleans, on Thursday, July 5 from 3 PM to 8 PM. A private family burial service will be held Friday morning in South Wellfleet. A Celebration of Life will occur at a later date, to be announced.
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