OLD TOWN – My mother, Jacqueline E. McCarthy, 100, passed away on January 2, 2025, with me by her side. My mother was born December 29, 1924, in Old Town, Maine. She was the daughter of Clyde Morrow Tarr and Mary Laura (Grangel) Tarr.
She was predeceased by her siblings, Clyde M. Tarr Jr., Clayton Tarr, Virginia Tarr, and Dwight Tarr; and her husband of 57 years, Michael William McCarthy. She is survived by a sister, Gloria Cummings, who is 101 years old and resides in Clovis, New Mexico. She is survived by her grandchildren, Christopher McCarthy, Cheryl Howland, Traci Howland and Aric Howland; and several great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She was the typical family matriarch, who kept her family unified.
My mother graduated from Old Town High School, and during World War II as a 17-year-old woman, she worked as a Rosie the Riveter at the South Portland Naval Shipyard in Maine. She then married my father, Michael W. McCarthy, an Army Air Corps SGT. Following their marriage in Pennsylvania, they resided there for three years. Then in 1948, we moved back to Maine as a family, where my parents were employed and they lived their version of “Happily Ever After,” in Old Town.
She was a member of the Little Flower Society at St. Mary’s Church and a member of the Emblem Club of The BPOE Elks #1287.
A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at the Parish of the Resurrection of the Lord, Holy Family, 429 Main St., Old Town, ME, on Saturday, January 18, 2025, at 11 a.m. Interment will be at Lawndale Cemetery in Old Town on May 30, 2025, at 3 p.m.
She was predeceased by her siblings, Clyde M. Tarr Jr., Clayton Tarr, Virginia Tarr, and Dwight Tarr; and her husband of 57 years, Michael William McCarthy. She is survived by a sister, Gloria Cummings, who is 101 years old and resides in Clovis, New Mexico. She is survived by her grandchildren, Christopher McCarthy, Cheryl Howland, Traci Howland and Aric Howland; and several great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She was the typical family matriarch, who kept her family unified.
My mother graduated from Old Town High School, and during World War II as a 17-year-old woman, she worked as a Rosie the Riveter at the South Portland Naval Shipyard in Maine. She then married my father, Michael W. McCarthy, an Army Air Corps SGT. Following their marriage in Pennsylvania, they resided there for three years. Then in 1948, we moved back to Maine as a family, where my parents were employed and they lived their version of “Happily Ever After,” in Old Town.
She was a member of the Little Flower Society at St. Mary’s Church and a member of the Emblem Club of The BPOE Elks #1287.
A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at the Parish of the Resurrection of the Lord, Holy Family, 429 Main St., Old Town, ME, on Saturday, January 18, 2025, at 11 a.m. Interment will be at Lawndale Cemetery in Old Town on May 30, 2025, at 3 p.m.
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