Warren C. Mahan

Born in High Splint, Kentucky, 1931, Warren was the only son of Marshall Mahan and Flo Mahan. Flo was the school ‘Marm’ at an elementary school in a mining community, and Marshall drove truck and played semi-pro baseball on Sundays for $10 pay.

Warren was named after his grandfather and his fondest childhood memories were spent on the family farm in Paris Crossing, Indiana fishing in the creek with his dog Fritzy from a poll-raft.

In high school Warren was a football, basketball, and baseball standout at Manuel High and in 2004 he was elected to the Manuel Hall of Fame for an undefeated football season and State Championship in 1948. The event took him by train to New Orleans for his first fine dining experience in the French Quarter.

Football provided Warren a scholarship to Kentucky where he played a season for Bear Bryant before a knee injury transferred him to Western Kentucky where he resumed football under a favorite high school line coach, Butch Charmole. During his three year career at Western, the school won its first Bowl Game. In these years he befriended special life-long West Texas friends Judy and Scratch Lee. Their special connection was football and blues clubs.

After completing college Warren enlisted in the Marine Corps during the Korean War where he flew SNJ-6 jets from Air Craft Carriers. Spared combat, Warren stayed another four years in the Marine Corps as a flight instructor.

He married and in 1956 his first child Donna Mahan was born. Daughter Karen and son Mitchell soon followed. The family moved to Natick, MA and Warren began a career in sales selling first meat packaging equipment and then commercial doors for leading companies. Some fishing trips to Maine in combination with a growing and stifling Massachusetts motivated Warren to relocate to Portland, ME and begin a recruiting business, Dunhill in the early 1970’s, and later the company became National Recruiters of Maine.

Warren met and married the ultimate Maine girl, Erica Nissen of Damariscotta and several trips to Moosehead Lake began a love for the area. The two purchased a lakeside hunting cabin in Rockwood, ME the family utilized year-round for ice fishing trips with friends and family. Camp was Warren’s respite and decompression place.

Warren and Erica settled in Yarmouth, purchased a home on Storer Street, and added two kids to the growing family, Ryan and Stacy Mahan. Warren and Erica spent the next 24 years in Yarmouth. Warren’s community involvement included Suicide Prevention in Natick, D.A.R.E programs, Little League President, umpiring, baseball and basketball coaching with mantra “Boys, kick butt and take names later.”

Warren attended hundreds of high school athletic events adopting many teams and players will remember Warren parked at the mid-field side line, sitting from a stool, and they’ll hear his resonant voice.

After purchasing a retirement home in Dover-Foxcroft in 2002, Warren and Erica in full retirement hauled a 5th wheel camper from ME, to Mitchell in IA, to Alaska, to Karen in Arizona, to Colorado, and a return trip home that provided many special memories.

Warren is pre-deceased by his father Marshall Mahan, mother Flo Mahan. He is survived by his wife Erica, “Good night, girl I love,” son Mitchell and wife Tammy of Clive, IA, their children Hannah, Lydia, Rebecca, Alex; Karen and Bob Genest of Lincoln, ME, their son Mark, Donna Mahan of Portland, ME, Ryan and wife Nicole of Fryeburg, ME, their children Isaac, Elias, Maya Mahan; Stacy and Joe Martin of Falmouth, ME and their daughter Addison.