Brianna Marie Cedrone

Jeffrey and Eileen (McGovern) Cedrone are heartbroken to announce the sudden passing of their beloved daughter, Brianna Marie Cedrone, on November 4, 2026. She was just 27 years old.

Brianna was born in Boston on April 24, 1999, and grew up in Marshfield, MA, at the heart of a large and loving extended family. Those who knew her best will tell you she was pure light: kind, gentle, and full of love.

Brianna attended Thayer Academy in Braintree before heading north to Bowdoin College, where she formed friendships that deeply enriched her college career and life going forward. Brianna graduated from Bowdoin magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, earning a degree in English with a minor in Cinema Studies. They were fitting choices for a young woman who had always been happiest inside a good story, whether it lived on a page or on a screen.

After stints in Los Angeles and Cambridge, Brianna carried her love of the written word to New York City and HarperCollins Publishers, where she found immense joy in the world of books that had shaped her since childhood. It was in New York that she met Max Fine; Brianna was fortunate and grateful to spend the last 15 months building a life and a future with him.

Brianna was intelligent and endlessly curious, thoughtful in all she did, and generous with her time, her attention, and her heart. Her compassion for others ran deep. Beneath her gentle manner lived a quick and delightful wit. Brianna was also a talented writer and editor and devoted guardian of proper grammar and punctuation. And she fell head over heels in love with every dog and cat she met, snuggling and snapping a photo whenever possible.

Some of Brianna's happiest hours were her quietest: curled up with a book, writing, or nestled in an independent bookstore. She loved watching the Celtics with her dad and taking long walks with her mom. She never turned down a spirited game of Password or a nostalgic round of the American Girl Doll board game.

To everyone blessed to know her, Brianna was a dear and cherished friend. To her younger cousins, she was a role model, someone they admired and hoped to grow up to be. Her light was a soft one, but it reached everyone around her, and it will stay with all of us who love her.

Brianna leaves her loving and devoted parents, Jeffrey and Eileen (McGovern) Cedrone, and her partner, Max Fine. She also leaves her grandparents, Stephen Cedrone and Doranne McGovern; her aunts and uncles, Kevin and Jennifer Cedrone, Andrea and Gregory Robbins, Kathleen and Bill Little, Terry McGovern and Shirley Jacks, Tricia McGovern and Mary Marquard, and Marianne McGovern; her twelve cousins; and a wide circle of friends. She was predeceased by her grandmother Mary Cedrone and her grandfather James McGovern.

Visiting hours will be held on Friday, November 13, 2026 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 p.m. at the MacDonald Funeral Home, 1755 Ocean Street in Marshfield. A Mass honoring Brianna’s extraordinary life will be celebrated on Saturday, November 14 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Christine’s Church, 1295 Main Street in Marshfield.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Brianna's memory may be made to Sowing Seeds, by mail to P.O. Box 1001, Marshfield, MA 02050 or online at: https://givebutter.com/sowingseedsmarshfield or the Marshfield Food Pantry, by mail to P.O. Box 1097, Marshfield, MA 02050 or online at: https://marshfieldfoodpantry.org/donate/ 

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