PORTLAND – Malcolm Dennison McLean Jr., known to family and friends as Scott, died Sunday, May 18, 2008, at Maine Medical Center, Portland, following a brief illness. He was 55.

Scott was born in Bessemer, Mich., the son of Malcolm D. McLean and Allegra Anderson McLean. He moved with the family to Maine as a boy and lived in Rumford, his father’s hometown, for most of his childhood. He held a GED and is affiliated with the Rumford Class of 1972.

A millwright and welder by trade, Scott worked up and down the Eastern seaboard at mill shutdowns and repairs. He was also licensed to work on desalinization plant systems.

His special interest was in maintenance and repair of old Volvo and Mercedes Benz cars and he routinely drove and sold vehicles that were more than 20 years old and still going strong.

As a young man, he ran his own business as a leather crafter.

Scott also loved spending time at Sebago Lake.

He is survived by his wife, Louise LeTarte McLean and his daughter, Mercedes Marion McLean, both of Greenwood; also two sisters and their families, Deborah McLean of Freeport and Erica M. Helm of Strafford, N.H.; and a brother and his family, Timothy A. McLean of South Hamilton, Mass.

He was predeceased by his parents; and a sister, Melissa Doris McLean.