1939 – 2016

MOUNT VERNON — Holly Hock Dumaine died at her home on Echo Lake on Thursday, Oct. 6.

She was born June 2, 1939, in Jamaica, N.Y., the only child of the Rev. George C. Hock and Mary Townsend Hock.

Upon the death of Reverend Hock in 1940, Mary and her daughter, Holly, relocated to the Townsend Farm in Readfield.

Holly’s formal education began at the Winthrop Grammar School where her mother was a teacher. She graduated, with honors, in 1957 from the Kent’s Hill School in Readfield, and in 1961 she graduated from Pembroke College at Brown University in Providence, R.I.

In June 1960, she married Christopher Dumaine Jr. of Readfield at the Chapel of the Holy Cross on the campus of the Holderness School in Holderness, N.H. In 1972, Holly, Chris and children moved to Academy Road in Monmout. After a few years, she was appointed library director at the Cumston Public Library in Monmouth. She said that it was a “dream job for a book lover.” When she and Chris retired they moved to the shores of Echo Lake in Mount Vernon, where for the next 27 years she honed her skills as a gardener.

She is survived by her husband of 56 years; a daughter, Holly-hock Randall of Lisbon Falls and her husband, Jeffrey, and their children Benjamin and Emma; a son, Christopher Isaiah Dumaine of Readfield, his sons, Eli and Gradon, his partner, Karen Johnson, and their son, Samuel; and a son, Eben Ware Dumaine of Readfield and his wife, Cindy, and her children, Nathan and Evan Gourley. She is also survived by a cousin, Linwood Townsend of Brunswick.

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