Lillian L Richard

She graduated from Stevens High School in 1935. She married Ivan Richard on July 8, 1940 and they shared 60 years of marriage. She was a communicant of St. Theresa’s Church in Mexico.

Lillian worked at Dorion’s Market before her marriage and in the food service programs at St. Theresa’s School and SAD #43, retiring in 1982. She was a charter member of the Mexico Mothercraft Club and a member of the Daughters of Isabella and Red Hat Society. She was an active volunteer throughout her life, first as a Brownie Troop leader and later supporting her children at Mexico High School through the music boosters and as a seamstress for many high school musicals.

Her passion for knitting started with knitting gloves for servicemen in WWII and continued with making hundreds of pairs of mittens and hats for Santa’s Helpers. She and Ivan enjoyed their retirement years traveling across the country and throughout Canada and visiting the British Isles. They wintered for many years in Honolulu and made lasting friends from around the world on Waikiki Beach.

She was a devoted wife, mother and Memere who fostered a love of reading in her family, supported them in all of their educational pursuits and life goals and was very proud of their accomplishments.

Surviving are her children Martha Peters of Sanford, Peg Richard and husband Rob Lindsay of Portland, Barbara MacGregor and husband Sandy of Rumford, Norma Richard of Raymond, Susan Richard of Mexico, and Terry Richard and husband Walt Smith of Dixfield. Her beloved grandchildren Nicholas Puiia and wife Samantha, Rachel Swan and husband Timothy, Maggie Puiia, Peter and Molly MacGregor, Zoe and Gabe Lindsay, Sawyer and Sela Rose Smith and great-granddaughters Angelina and Rosaria Puiia also survive her. Her husband, Ivan Richard, son Michael Richard, grandson Jay Lindsay and her siblings Buster Filiault, Muriel Cantara and Bernice Walker, predeceased her.

A joy in her last years was her beloved money cat, Minou, and Lillian requested that donations in her memory be made to McKennel’s Animal Adoption Agency, 88 Hall Hill Rd, Rumford, Maine 04276.