FAIRHAVEN — Cynthia LeBaron (Schoen) McNaughten, 89, of Fairhaven, Mass. and Rockville, Md., died Friday, March 9, 2018, at St. Luke’s Hospital, New Bedford, Mass., of natural causes. She was the widow of Neal K. McNaughten and the daughter of the late Harry H. and Mertice B. (Shurtleff) Schoen.
Born in Elizabeth, N.J., she lived in Cranford, N.J.; Farmington and Portland, Maine; Fairhaven; Charleston, S.C.; Seattle, Wash.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Los Altos, Calif.; and Rockville, before returning to Fairhaven in 1987. She was a communicant of the Episcopal Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Wheaton, Md., and also affiliated with St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Glenwood, Md., and Grace Episcopal Church, New Bedford, Mass.
She attended and later taught at Ashley Hall in Charleston, graduated from Bush School in Seattle, and from Smith College in Northampton, Mass., of which she was an active alumna. She also taught at the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa., edited textbooks at John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia, and was an advertising production supervisor at N.W. Ayer & Son, Philadelphia. She was later employed in Md. by the Montgomery Sentinel and by Montgomery County Public Schools.
An avid genealogy and local history researcher, she was an active member of numerous genealogical and historical organizations and of many others related to her environmental, education, and cultural interests.
She is survived by three sons: William L. McN. Loving of Denver, Colo.; Neal H. McNaughten of Wolcott, Vt.; and Paul S. McNaughten of Rockville, Md.; two daughters: Julia M. Kerr (McNaughten) of Keene, N.H.; and Margaret Elizabeth McNaughten of Sunapee, N.H.; a step-daughter, Marjorie L. Stern (McNaughten), of Shelburne, Vt.; six grandsons: Christopher N. and Robert J. Kerr, of New York, N.Y.; Michael R. Kerr of Telluride, Colo.; Noah K. McN. Loving of Amherst, Mass.; Cole H. and Grayson B. McNaughten of Wolcott, Vt.; two step-grand-daughters: Abbi L. and Sarena I. Stern of Shelburne, Vt.; and two in-law grand-daughters, Jacqueline Christo Heiber of Washington, D.C. and Marlo Silberski of Rockville, Md..
The funeral will be at Grace Church, 422 County St., New Bedford, Mass., on Wednesday, March 14, 2018, at 1:30 pm. Interment will be at Riverside Cemetery, Fairhaven, at a later date. It is requested that flowers be omitted. In lieu of flowers, contributions in her name may be made to the Building Fund for the Unitarian Memorial Church, Fairhaven, for preservation of the tower bells