PORTLAND – Lila P. MacKinnon, 77, of 6 Brads Way, Raymond, died early Tuesday, March 13, at Maine Medical Center following a long illness.

She was born on July 9, 1929, in Portland, the daughter of Clifford I. and Anna Marjorie Hanscom Plummer. She attended grade and middle schools in Mechanic Falls, where she lived winters with a loving aunt and her family after the death of her mother, due to her father’s work as a railroad postal clerk keeping him away from home for days at a time. She attended high school at North Yarmouth Academy, graduating in 1947. It was there that she met her husband, Stuart W. MacKinnon, of Yarmouth, whom she married in 1951.

She enjoyed many activities, but chief among them were knitting, reading, and connecting with friends and family, practices that kept her in good stead after she became debilitated by the rheumatoid arthritis, from which she suffered for the last 25 years of her life.

An only child, she lost her mother when she was just 2 years of age, instilling in her the importance of family above all else in life, and it was when she was surrounded by family that she was happiest.

Survivors include her sons, Jeffrey S. MacKinnon, of Raymond, David W. and his wife, Cheri M. MacKinnon, also of Raymond, Mark A. MacKinnon, of Hudson, and Bruce C. MacKinnon, of Portland; five grandchildren, Christine M. and her husband, John V. Bogdan, of Stafford, Va., Kelley A. and her husband, Kurt L. Hayes, of Richmond, Va., Scott J. MacKinnon, also of Richmond, Jessica E. MacKinnon, of San Diego, Calif., and Elijah D. MacKinnon, of Raymond; and four great-grandchildren.

Her parents and her husband, Stuart, predeceased her.