Lynn Hayes Shore

Mary Patricia Lynn Hayes Shore passed away this Memorial Day weekend at her home in Prescott, AZ. Wife, mother, oldest of seven, and daughter of Dorothy Eileen Clouston and Terrence John Hayes, she led an extraordinary life, growing up in the middle of some of the country’s most turbulent times. Born in Washington, D.C. in 1949, she came of age and lived and worked in our Capital during the Kennedy’s, the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam. During Watergate, Lynn was working as executive secretary at the U.S. Attorney’s office and each day greeted the participants of the Watergate hearings as she was concurrently hounded by the press for “scoops”. She knew it was time to leave. She packed up her prized Volkswagen bug and took off for Los Angeles to pursue the arts. Accepted into Peggy Feury’s acting masterclass, a prestigious accomplishment for a beginner, she honed her craft with fellow classmates Sean Penn, Jeff Goldblum and Annette O’Toole. At this time she also became interested in the behind the scenes, technical aspects of film, and was hired as a production assistant and script supervisor on several feature films, working alongside her soon to be husband of 35 years, Fredric Shore. She met her husband to be when Fredric voted for Lynn to be the fifth roommate in a five bedroom Hollywood Hills home that he was living in. He did this in spite of promising a friend that he would vote for him….a vote was changed and a relationship had begun. Once Lynn and Fredric decided they wanted a child, they moved away from L.A. (where Lynn often remarked that it felt illegal and frowned upon to have a child if you were working in the “biz”). They quit the “biz” and moved to Florida to have their only child, Justin. Grateful for the normalcy of Florida, but missing the west, they packed up and moved to Prescott, Arizona in 1994 where they were proud to raise their son as all three thrived in the tight-knit caring small town community. During her nineteen years in Prescott, Lynn always found time to help others in so many ways, as she also continued to be the true artist she always was – writing poetry and short-stories, painting, singing, and continuing her unending thirst for knowledge through countless classes at Yavapai College. Lynn had an eagle’s eye and a warm, kind heart. As a mom, wife, sister and good friend to many, she will be missed every day. A Memorial Service for Lynn was celebrated. In lieu of flowers the family suggests that memorials in Lynn’s name may be made to the charity of your choice. Hampton Funeral Home was entrusted with the arrangements.

Lynn Hayes Shore

March 30, 1949 - May 24, 2013