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- [[Her sister's obituary: Published: February 08, 2007 - The Forecaster/Falmouth, Maine
Grace A. McCarthy, 87 PORTLAND ? Grace A. McCarthy died Feb. 1 in Portland.
She was born Jan. 25, 1920 in Portland to Harold and Grace Kingston Currier and graduated from Deering High School in 1938. During World War II, she was a Rosy the Riveter in Long Island, N.Y. After that experience, she lived in Wyoming for about a year.
When the war was over, she worked at Kresges 5 and 10 on Congress Street in Portland, where she met her future husband. In 1946, she married Bernard McCarthy. They were married until his death in 1983.
In 1950, they moved to Long Island in Casco Bay, where she lived for 37 years and raised two sons. Always active in the community, McCarthy taught Sunday school at the Methodist church, was a member of the PTA, the Historical Society and was a 54-year member and past president of the Long Island Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW. She managed the Spar on Long Island for several years and worked at Pratt Abbot in Portland for several years. At age 67, she retired from her position at the Long Island Post Office after 15 years of service there.
She was a loving, generous, strong woman who lived and died with dignity. She will be missed by all who knew her. She enjoyed the last six years at the Betsy Ross House in South Portland. She liked to travel and socialize.
Beside her parents and husband, McCarthy was predeceased by two brothers, Wendell Currier and Donald Currier; and a sister, Hazel Boothby. Survivors include two sons, Harvey McCarthy of Portland, and Bernard McCarthy Jr. and companion Georgie Etta Fides of South Portland; a sister, Barbara Horr of Portland; two sisters-in-law, Dorothy Currier of Shapleigh and Julie Currier of Connecticut; two grandsons, Malachi McCarthy and David Clark; and many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, at Jones, Rich & Hutchins Funeral Home, 199 Woodford St., Portland. There will be a gathering of friends after the service at the VFW on Forest Avenue in Portland. Private interment will be held in Brooklawn Memorial Park, also in Portland.
Donations may be made to the American Heart Association, 343 Gorham Road, South Portland, Maine 04106.
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Her brother's obituary:
Sarasota Herald-Tribune (FL) - June 9, 2003
Deceased Name: Wendell Currier
Wendell "Windy" Currier, 78, Sarasota, and West Newfield, Maine, died June 7, 2003.
He was born April 4, 1925, in Portland, Maine, and wintered in Sarasota since 1988. He retired in 1985 from the Maine Central Railroad, where he had been a locomotive engineer since 1952. He and his wife of 57 years, Dorothy (Keith) owned and operated Deering Ridge Orchard in Waterboro, Maine, from 1971 to 1994.
He served in the Army during World War II with the 557th Field Artillery Battalion at Normandy Beach and received a Purple Heart. He was a member and deacon at Immanuel Baptist Church in Portland and was a member of Community Baptist Church, North Waterford, Maine. He also attended Bee Ridge Presbyterian Church while in Sarasota. He was a member of the American Legion in Sanford, Maine, and the DAV.
Along with his wife, survivors include a son, William W. of Dayton, Maine; a daughter, Barbara Woodruff of Waterbury, Conn.; sisters Grace A. McCarthy of South Portland, Maine, and Barbara Horr of Portland; seven grandsons; and three great-grandsons.
Services will be in Portland where Hutchins Funeral Home is in charge.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Hospice of VNS, 15 Industrial Park Road, Saco, ME 04072.
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