Lucia McClintock Payne

Giles, I was so sorry to hear of Lucia's passing. Please know that I am thinking of you at this time Nancy Hughes

Marty has posted a very moving eulogy for Lucia which echoes our sentiments exactly. I was first introduced to Lucia and Giles in the early `90s when Susan, her sister, took me to Fairfield. We have stayed there and visited them in Arizona many times and so I feel I know the Paynes very well. They came to us here in Scotland too. In March this year, when it was clear just how fragile Lucia had become, our `shepherdess´ Linda volunteered to accompany Susan and I to Fairfield. We had a...

Giles, Adam, and respective families, Rose and I are deeply saddened after learning of Lucia's demise; she will be sorely missed by all who knew her. Our family shares many, many memories as next-door neighbors and a wide range of friends we met through the Paynes. We can still see Lucia settling rifts either between her boys or amongst their peers in her judicious and loving manner. An observer would assume that she had a law degree. Her contagious laughter would frequently change the mood...

Grief can be so hard, but our special memories help us cope. There was no one like her! With deepest sympathy.

Lucia and I met at thirteen when she was visiting her Aunt Betty and Uncle Jim in Pasadena, California. Our friendship was magical from almost the very beginning. It came to be a friendship of 69 years. Lucia met her `Giles´ at Bruce´s and my wedding in June of 1963. Giles and Bruce had been roommates at Andover and friends ´til Bruce died a year ago. We four referred to our long, loving, relationship as having had a magic wand sprinkle fairy dust over us. I remember Lucia loving the smell...

What a pleasure to have been a friend of Lucia´s. Such an amazing person, bringing so many wonderful memories to all she touched. Dick and Barbro Lund.