LEWISTON – Madeline McIlroy Wellman, 91, a resident of Schooner Estates, Auburn, passed away June 20, at the Montello Manor nursing home in Lewiston.

She was born in Winthrop, on Aug. 20, 1913. She was educated in the Lewiston school system and graduated from Bates College in the Class of 1935. She did graduate study at Central Connecticut College, Westfield State College in Westfield, Mass., and the American International College in Springfield, Mass.

She was a resident of Maine until moving to Wilbraham, Mass., where her husband, Lewiston native and Bates College classmate, Edward “Ted” Wellman Jr., served as a teacher and athletic coach. After leaving Wilbraham, they moved to Essex, Conn., then later to Chester, Conn., where they lived until Mr. Wellman passed away in 1958.

At this time in her life, she was an elementary schoolteacher in the Chester and Cromwell, Conn., schools. In 1963, she moved to East Longmeadow, Mass., and taught elementary school in the Longmeadow school system for the next 15 years, before retiring in 1978.

In her retirement she was an active volunteer in the Pioneer Valley chapter of the American Red Cross and a volunteer in the senior reading program in the Longmeadow elementary schools.

She is survived by two granddaughters, Marcia E. Wellman of Branford, Conn., and Amanda W. Peterson of Washington, D.C.; a niece, Shelley Lochhead of Contoocook, N.H.; and five nephews, Lawrence, Robert, Brian, James and Thomas Flynn, all from the Lewiston-Auburn area.

Her only son, Edward F. Wellman III, predeceased her in September 1996. She was also predeceased by three sisters, Katherine Flynn, Constance Lochhead and Dorothy Hawes; and one brother, Malcolm McIlroy.