{"id":5244,"date":"2026-03-13T08:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/?p=5244"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:48:22","slug":"eileen-m-maher-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/2026\/03\/13\/eileen-m-maher-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Eileen M. Maher ’74"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eileen Mary Maher, 69, of Natchez, Mississippi, died Sunday, August 31, 2025 after a brutal battle with peritoneal cancer. She was born January 28, 1956 in Holyoke, Massachusetts to Mary and Richard Maher. Mary was a board-certified registered nurse; Richard was an Internist.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eileen was predeceased by her husband, G. Mark LaFrancis, her parents and her younger brother, Christopher Maher.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is survived by her children, Mark LaFrancis and his wife Kriss, and Mary LaFrancis Symes, her husband Josh, and their daughter, Grace Harper Symes, born July 7, 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eileen also leaves behind her sister, Maureen Maher Cotter, and her husband, Mike Cotter; her godchild Laura Cotter O’Brien, and her husband Shaun, and daughters, Abby and Caitlin; Christopher and Leah Cotter and their daughter, Elizabeth Barsalou and her husband Brian and Carolyn St. Lawerence her husband, Pat, and their daughters Kierston, Quin, and Julia.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eileen was a lifelong learner. She graduated from Boston College in 1978 with degrees in English and Philosophy. She earned a Master’s Degree in American History from Boston College in 1978. In 1987 she received a Master’s of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language from the Elms College. In 1995, she graduated from Western New England University with a Juris Doctorate degree. In 2014 she graduated from Alcorn University with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Nursing. In 2017 she graduated from University of Mississippi School of Nursing with a Master’s of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eileen’s work career closely paralleled her academic progress. She started her teaching career in 1978 and took a job teaching children with learning disabilities English as a Second Language. In 1995 Eileen started her career as an attorney in both family and criminal law. She would later go on to become a Justice Court Judge for the Southern district of Adams County from 2017 to 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Eileen’s favorite memories was when she scored a hole-in-one on September 6, 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visitation will be 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. Friday September 05, 2025 at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church with Father Daniel O\u2019Connor officiating.

Burial will follow at 12:30 p.m. at Natchez National Cemetery under the direction of Laird Funeral Home.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Natchez Adams County Humane Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eileen Mary Maher, 69, of Natchez, Mississippi, died Sunday, August 31, 2025 after a brutal battle with peritoneal cancer. She was born January 28, 1956 in Holyoke, Massachusetts to Mary and Richard Maher. Mary was a board-certified registered nurse; Richard was an Internist.\u00a0 Eileen was predeceased by her husband, G. Mark LaFrancis, her parents and … Continue reading Eileen M. Maher ’74<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101,283],"class_list":["post-5244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","tag-class-of-1974","tag-williston-northampton-school"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5246,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions\/5246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}