Lydia MacFunn Pyne, known all her life as “Funny,” died at her home in Bremen on Oct. 30. She was 85.
Funny Pyne was born in West Chester, Penn. in 1920, the daughter of Herbert and Lydia Fulweiler.
She graduated from Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Penn. in 1938, after which she spent a year at La Petite Ecole in Florence, Italy, where she remembered watching Mussolini make speeches and strike poses.
She first came to Maine as a very young girl in the 1920’s, when her parents built a summer house on Bremen Long Island. It was in Bremen where she met her husband to be, H. Rivington Pyne, Jr., “Rivie”, another summer resident. Rivie was in the Navy at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked in December 1941. Upon his safe return to the mainland, he and Funny were married at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Cal.
During the war Funny worked with the Red Cross and later with the Visiting Nurses of Somerset County at the Veterans Hospital at Lions, N.J. She raised her family in Peapack, N.J. and was active in the Garden Club of America.
From the early 60’s, with all her children away at school, and for the next 40 years, she spent her winters on Harbour Island in the Bahamas and her summers on Pine Island in Medomak.
Funny Pyne was predeceased by her husband in 1980.
She is survived by her daughter, Penny Mott of Sarasota, Fla.; sons, Riv of Waldoboro, Blair of Bremen, and Joe of Houston, Tex.; grandchildren, Sam, Lisa, Dia, Blair, and Cameron; and four great-grandchildren.
A private service will be held by the family.
For those wishing to remember Funny Pyne, the family asks that they consider a donation to the Lincoln County
Animal Shelter, P.O. Box, Edgecomb, ME 04556.
