In loving memory of Gail Dontigney Wills of Marshfield, Massachusetts, who passed away on Tuesday September 13th at the age of 87 after a brief illness. She was a wonderful lady and loving mother to four children, grandmother to six, and great grandmother to one granddaughter. She owned and ran the Lord Randall Bookshop at 22 Main Street in Marshfield for the last 50 years.

Born on June 12th, 1935 in Meriden Connecticut to the late Charles and Florence Dontigney, Gail was an only child. She attended High School in Meriden and Simmons college in Boston, where she studied Literature. She was an avid swimmer and played the cello. She met her husband Arthur A. Wills at the Judge Baker Foundation, an affiliate of Harvard University where Arthur attended college. He won her heart by reciting "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot from memory. Gail and Arthur built a life together, first in Rexhame, then on the "farm". They were known for their artist reception parties that followed art openings at the Duxbury Free Library, where the rug was rolled up and a jazz band played.

There were fireflies, swims in the pond, crickets, owls, a huge Cucumber Magnolia tree that somehow had thrived for hundreds of years so far north. There were gardens full of sweet corn and tomatoes, a barn with horses, chickens, ducks and even a goat named Billy Buck, who was always causing trouble. They had four children. Jonathan, Andrew, Carolyn and Peter. Peter died in an accident while commercial salmon seining in Alaska in 1986.

They started the bookshop together in 1972. While Arthur ran his medical practice in downtown Boston, Gail ran the shop. Although divorced in the mid-seventies, they maintained a cordial relationship and often hosted each other at family gatherings. Gail moved into the downstairs apartment attached to the bookshop and has made that her home. She had many dogs over the years. And a few horses. She would take them for long walks on the beach or through her favorite trails in the woods. She enjoyed her cheese, crackers and glass of red wine at the end of the day, often next to a crackling fire in the fireplace.

Gail read avidly, sometimes devouring over sixty books a year. Mary Oliver was one of her favorite poets. She was on a Louise Penny kick till the end. She once traveled to India with a group led by her yoga instructor. Raj was a retired General in the Indian Army and her group got the royal treatment while traveling there. She would get this dreamy look when she talked about it. A large personal library next to her reading chair was full of books about India. She did Tai Chi. She loved art, flowers, gardening and was addicted to watching tennis. She loved Roger Federer. She liked to launch her kayak in the South River that ran next to the bookshop and paddle through the marshes, sometimes all the way to the sea.

She is survived by her oldest son Jonathan and his wife Roberta and their two sons, Brendan and Jared. Andrew and his wife Sally of Homer, Alaska, and their two children Oceana and Lillianna, and Lily's daughter Jadynn. Carolyn Wills-Barberi and her husband Butch of Winterport, Maine, and their two children Olivia and Conrad. Her ex-husband Arthur A. Wills and his wife Hannah Boulton of Duxbury.

She will be missed by Brad Drury, who's dad the late Bill Drury, was a special friend who took Gail on many adventures and made her happy in her later years. And Brad's wife Kelly and their three children.

Also, her many friends too numerous to list and her many bookshop customers. And especially her dog, Cammy.

There will be a private service at a date, time and place to be determined. Her ashes will reside next to her son Peter at the family plot in Saint George, Maine.