Elaine M. Curran

Scarborough – Elaine M. Curran passed away on January 18, 2026.

Elaine was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on September 5, 1947, to the late Alfred A Dumont and Madeleine Naud.

She graduated from St. Anne’s High School in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1965. She then graduated from Burdett College in Boston in 1967.

She married John Curran, whom she met in college, on March 14, 1970, at St. Joseph’s Church in Salem, NH. They were married for 55 wonderful years. She was the very proud mother of four children – Kathleen Burns, Jennifer Curran, Timothy Curran, and Maureen Curran. She was the equally proud grandmother of five – Amelia, Julia, Caroline, Katherine Burns, and Lucy Goncalves. She never missed any school and athletic activities of her children. She was thrilled to attend as many of her grandchildren’s school and athletic activities as possible. There was nothing more important to her than her family. She was the most giving and unselfish person.

Elaine worked as a legal secretary for a law firm in Boston and then with the Law Department at the Aetna Casualty & Surety in Hartford, Connecticut. Once her first child, Kathleen, was born she devoted all her time to being a full-time mother. She was a member of the parents’ clubs at Holy Cross School, Catherine McAuley High School and Cheverus High School. She always volunteered to be a driver to various school events. She was a member of the Holy Cross Sodality and a volunteer at Lyric Theater. Once her youngest child went off to college, she went to work part-time during the Christmas season at the L.L. Bean call center which she enjoyed for eight years.

She and her husband traveled several times to Ireland as well as trips to Bermuda, England, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and Italy.

Elaine was a huge fan of whichever team one of her children or grandchildren played for plus the Red Sox, Celtics and Patriots. She particularly loved to attend musicals at the Maine State Theater and the Ogunquit Playhouse.

Elaine is survived by her husband, John Curran; her daughter, Kathleen Burns and her husband, John, of Needham, MA; her daughter, Jennifer Curran, and her fiancé, David Flemming, of Portsmouth, NH; her son, Timothy Curran, of Portland, ME; her daughter, Maureen Curran, of Charlestown, MA; and five grandchildren: Amelia, Julia, Caroline, Katherine, and Lucy. She is also survived by her sister, Dolores Meuse of Stoneham, MA; as well as nieces and a nephew.

Visiting hours will be held from 4-6pm on Sunday, January 25, 2026, at the Conroy-Tully Walker Funeral Home of South Portland, 1024 Broadway. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11am on Monday, January 26, 2026, at St. Pius X Church, 492 Ocean Avenue, Portland.