Darrell D. McWilliam, 62, died July 15 at her home in Duxbury after a seven-year battle with cancer.

Mrs. McWilliam was born in Hyde Park on October 11, 1947, the daughter of the late Herbert Russell Dimmick and Dorothy Neale Dimmick.  After spending her early years in Lima, Ohio, she moved with her family to Park Ridge, N.J. in 1958.  Active in the performing arts, she graduated from Park Ridge High School in 1965.  She attended Ohio University before moving on to study elementary school education at Monmouth College.

In 1968, she met Jack McWilliam, who became her husband of 41 years.  Married in Park Ridge, N.J. on July 12, 1969, they soon moved to Massachusetts, and had two sons.  After ten years in Plymouth, the McWilliam family moved to Duxbury in 1983, where Mrs. McWilliam became involved in the flower guild at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Duxbury and Trinity Church in Boston, the Duxbury PTO and the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, where she gave docent tours of the King Caesar House.  She loved gardening, interior decorating, traveling, and painting, which became a source of therapy during her fight against cancer.  She and her husband renewed their wedding vows in Maui in 2004.

Mrs. McWilliam’s fight against cancer inspired her sons to form The Brothers McWilliam Foundation, which organized events to raise money and awareness for breast cancer research.

She leaves  her husband, Jack; her sons, Scott David and his wife Stephanie of Chicago, Ill., and  Todd Kendall and his partner Emily Paramore of Boston; three sisters, Pamela Marhan of Red Bank, N. J., Debra Conway of Selbyville, Del. and Meredith Wiech of Andover; four nieces, five nephews, five great-nieces and six great-nephews.  She was the sister of the late Paula Blagg and the late Geoffrey Dimmick.

A memorial service will be held on Monday, Aug. 9 at 10 a.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 410 Washington St. in Duxbury.  In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to The Darrell D. McWilliam Scholarship Fund, care of Rockland Trust Company, 27 Bay Road, P.O. Box 1627, Duxbury, MA 02332.   Arrangements by the Shepherd Funeral Home, Kingston.