Obituary of Lucy Hallowell

Lucy Austin Hallowell, born November 20, 1945 in Boston, Massachusetts to Edith Moffat Harding and Frances Austin Harding, died January 10, 2020 on North Haven island surrounded by her children. Lucy began her life in Dover, Massachusetts, where she enjoyed riding horses, exploring the woods behind her home and playing sports at Beaver Country Day School. Her summers were spent with her family on Vinalhaven island in Maine, where she discovered her lifelong love of sailing. After high school, she headed west to the University of Colorado at Boulder where, in her spare time, she became an acrobatic pilot and learned to ride motorcycles. In 1970 she married Angus Barney Hallowell on North Haven island, where they moved soon after to raise their family. Lucy quickly became part of the island community, helping to start the island’s first food co-op and serving on town committees. But the role she valued most was being a mother to her four children, Amanda, Jessie, Zach and Sam, who she nurtured with love, pride and the innate instinct for growing things that she also brought to the many beautiful gardens she tended throughout her life. In 1980, Lucy and Barney divorced and Lucy moved off the island with her children, settling in Warren, where she married and later divorced Ted Howard, before then settling in Waldoboro. A lover of animals and the outdoors, Lucy worked for a vet, and in the years following, the Island Institute and Coastal Mountains Land Trust. In 1997, she met Leonard Lookner of Camden, Maine. Though they were never married, the twenty years they spent together were some of the happiest in her life. Together they raised large vegetable gardens, fruit trees and honey bees and cruised Penobscot Bay, first in their Cape Dory Andiamo and then in Mariposa. Following Leonard's passing in 2017, Lucy moved to Quarry Hill in Camden before returning to North Haven in November 2019, just after her 74th birthday. She died at Southern Harbor House, an eldercare facility on the island that provided both her and her family a caring and peaceful place for her to come to the end of her life. Lucy is survived by her siblings, Hara, Nipper and Edie and their children, and by her own children, their partners and her five grandchildren, Milo, George, Hella, Lila and Quincy. She was deeply loved by them all and will be missed every day. The family is planning a celebration of Lucy’s life to be held on North Haven later this year. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation in Lucy’s name to Southern Harbor House, 12 Pulpit Harbor Road, North Haven, Maine 04853 or online at www.southernharborhouse.org/support