Madeline Downing

ROCHESTER - Madeline V. Downing, 86, passed away peacefully in her daughter's home in Rochester, N.H., surrounded by her loving family after many years of battling kidney cancer. She was born in Chester, Pa., in 1923, to Joseph and Ann Kettela.Madeline was raised in Buffalo, N.Y., prior to meeting the love of her life, Judson H. Downing, while vacationing in Alton Bay on Lake Winnipesaukee. Madeline and her family were often passengers on Judson's family's speedboat, The Legionnaire 70, located at Downing's Landing. It was the world's fastest public speedboat at the time. They married a year later and resided in Alton Bay for 64 more years. Madeline will always be remembered for her beautiful oil paintings of the sea as well as her stunning watercolors of the mountains, children, and still life. She was so happy that Katherine Bailey wrote a book about her painting of Ricky Winchester when he was a small boy who lived at the Nubble Light House and used to cross from the Light House to the mainland in a box...