COHASSET, MA — Marie Catherine Macklin, 91, of Cohasset, Mass., died peacefully surrounded by her family on Jan. 20, 2017, at The Cedars in Portland, Maine. Marie was born on May 26, 1925, in Lowell, Mass., to Josephine Sheehan Forgays and Harold Forgays. At age three, following the death of her mother, she was raised by Mary Sheehan (aunt) and John Moriarty, among loving aunts and uncles in the Irish enclave of Lowell.
She was educated at Lowell High School and graduated from Salem State University in 1947 with a B.S. in Education and where she excelled at basketball though petite in stature. She went on to teach at Wilmington, Amherst and Billerica high schools.
Following her marriage in 1950 to Theodore Macklin, a clinical psychologist also from Lowell, she settled in Cohasset to raise their five children. Marie was a member of the Cohasset Art Center since its early days and loved taking oil painting classes there and at other art centers well into her 70s. She was also a reliable and winning crew member in mother-son sailboat races at the Cohasset Sailing Club. She and Theodore enjoyed travel and visited Ireland, Italy and France and had a memorable trip to Hawaii where Ted, USMC, spent time during WWII on route to China.
In her senior years, she was able to spend significant time with her children and enjoy her grandchildren. Most recently, though frail, she was determined to travel to Chatham, Mass., to enjoy Thanksgiving with more than 20 members of her family. Marie earned the loving nickname, ‘Minnie Marie,’ among family and close friends. She held a large place in the hearts and lives of her loving children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and extended family.
Marie was predeceased by husband Theodore in 2006, and sisters Lorraine Forgays Miller of Nottingham, N.H., and Rita Moriarty of Lowell. She is survived by their daughter Linda of Germantown, Md., sons Theodore and wife Debra of McLean, Va., Christopher and wife Colleen of So. Portland, Maine; Steven of Cohasset, and Brian of Anchorage, Alaska. Marie had nine grandchildren: Madeleine, Victoria, Catherine and Theodore of McLean, Nicholas, of Jacksonville, Fla., Makayla of Alpharetta, Ga., Hannah of Los Angeles, Calif., Gabrielle of Ludlow, Vt., and Nathaniel of Anchorage, as well as two great-grandchildren. She also leaves nieces Laurel Miller of Nottingham, N.H., and Jane O’Brien of Lancaster, Mass., and nephews Kim Miller of Pelham, N.H., John Philip O’Brien of Durham, N.H., and Paul O’Brien, and many cousins, great nieces and nephews.
Marie will be interred with Theodore at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne.
(NOTE: The above obituary is from Hobbs Funeral Home.)
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