Obituary of Dorothy MacLean

   Dorothy Julia Hessler MacLean, age 93, long-term resident of Pound Ridge, NY (63 years) and recent resident of Branford, CT (3 years) died May 18, 2019 at  8:15 PM at Yale New Haven Hospital, CT. She was born in Brooklyn, NY, the oldest child of John Hessler and Julia Pfeiffer Hessler. Dorothy graduated High School and became a manager at Woolworth's Department Store, NY until her marriage to John MacLean. She subsequently became a mother to three children and seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. When her children were grown Dorothy became a Court Clerk for the Town of Pound Ridge, NY and continued in that work until retirement. During retirement with husband John they greatly enjoyed gardening and repairing stone walls at their home in Pound Ridge, and garage sales. Dorothy loved people, life and helping all people that she met. She loved the people and Town of Pound Ridge, and also the new acquaintances that she met when she moved to assisted living in the last years of her life.

   Family survivors are: children Dorothy MacLean Lang (North Branford, CT), Douglas John MacLean (San Francisco, CA) and Scott Jeffrey MacLean (Wilmington, NC), and grandchildren Julia Lang Peterson (Arcata, CA), Jodie Alison Lang (Guilford, CT), Jason MacLean Lang (West Hartford, CT), Simon Garrett Lang (Mahwah, NJ), Trahern MacLean (Spain), Katriona MacLean (Wilmington, NC), Shiona MacLean (Wayne, NJ) and  great-grandchilden Jackson Fischbach (NY, NY), Jade Fischbach (Guilford, CT), Jordan Lang (West Hartford, CT), Avery Lang (West Hartford, CT), Parker Lang (West Hartford, CT), Elora Lang (Mahwah, NJ) and Alia Lang (Mahwah, NJ).    

The family will receive friends on Saturday, May 25th from 10:00 am to 11:00 am at Clark Associates Funeral Home, 4 Woods Bridge Road, Katonah, NY.  The Funeral Service will be held at the Funeral Home at 11:00 am.  Interment will follow at Pound Ridge Cemetery, West Lane, Pound Ridge, NY.