Every Christmas “Gram” or “Grammie Mac” would make batches and batches of peanut butter fudge and sugar cookies to distribute to all of her family and friends. Lil loved family gatherings for holidays, birthdays and all occasions, and caring for her grandchildren when they were young and their visits as they grew older. Despite her busy work schedule, the center of her life was always her family. She worked at many places over the course of her life including: the B&M cornshop, the Heel Mill, McSherry’s Orchard, Junge’s Motel, Conway Cafe bakery, Cinnamon Tree, Hick’s Nursing Home, Memorial Hospital kitchen, Fryeburg Academy kitchen, Eastern Slope Campground, as a private caregiver for several individuals, and as a cleaning person for people in the community and the Fryeburg New Church. With her signature red lipstick, feisty personality, and seemingly limitless supply of energy, Lil was a force to be reckoned with. Fiercely independent, after Jim’s death in 2002, Lil lived alone in their home until she was 96 years old. Devoted and supportive parents of four children, Jim and Lil raised their family and remained in Fryeburg for the rest of their lives. They lived and worked in the Lewiston/Auburn area before moving to Fryeburg, in 1956. She graduated from Edward Little High School in Auburn, Maine, and married James “Jim” MacFarlane on November 4, 1946, after he returned home from serving in WWII. Growing up on her family’s farm, she acquired a work ethic that would continue throughout her life. (Lil) MacFarlane, of West View Drive in Fryeburg, passed away on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, two weeks before her 99th birthday.īorn May 27, 1922, in Durham, Maine, to Charles and Martha Larrabee, she was the eldest of four children.
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