Lillian Russell (Kucinskas), 72, of Wareham, passed away peacefully at home after a brief battle with cancer.

Born in Stoughton in 1938 to Mary and John Kucinskas, she attended Stoughton schools and graduated from Stoughton High School in 1956. She served as class vice president and captain of the field hockey team, and designed the class yearbook.

Lillian also attended Bay State Academy in Boston. She held many occupations in addition to being a mom, starting very early in her parents' tailor shop in Stoughton Square. She spent summers waitressing on Martha’s Vineyard as a teenager and running Seward’s Store in Menemsha during Hurricane Carol in 1954. Later she worked as a supervisor at the First National Bank of Boston, Morse Shoe, Bourne’s Transportation, the Mullare News Agency, Sears, Roebuck & Co. in Brockton, and Stonehill College in North Easton.

She resided in Easton for most of her life until retiring to the summer home in the Indian Mound Beach area of Wareham, where she enjoyed reading, dining out, and spending time with her family and friends.

She was a past president of the Lithuanian National Club in Stoughton, taught CCD for the Holy Cross Church in South Easton, and volunteered for the Oliver Ames High School library, along with chaperoning many school field trips. She enjoyed travelling to Maine, New Hampshire, California, Lousiana, the Cape and Islands, as well as visiting her ancestral homeland in Lithuania.

She leaves two sons, Michael of Wareham, and Daniel of Brockton, her daughter-in-law Heather and grandchildren Nicholas and Abby of Brockton, sisters Mary Cowgill of South Easton, Adella Coe, and her brother-in-law William Coe of Stoughton, nieces June Vincent of Weymouth, Lorraine Vareika of South Easton, nephews John Coe of Bridgewater and Charles Vincent of Vineyard Haven.

Services are private. Condolences may be expressed via Chapman, Cole, & Gleason Funeral Home in Wareham: www.ccgfuneralhome.com.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Lithuanian Children’s Relief Fund, 261 Thatcher St. Brockton, MA 02302.