NORWAY – Miriam (Piirainen) Inman of West Paris passed away on April 29, at the Norway Rehabilitation Center.

Born in Oxford, the daughter of Toivo and Elsie (Ahonen) Piirainen, she grew up in Tuelltown, where she attended the North Paris School and graduated from West Paris High School in the Class of 1946. After high school she was employed in the office at the United Feldspar Co., West Paris.

On Aug. 24, 1947, she married Vernon W. Inman. Shortly after their marriage, they located in Amesbury, Mass., where she worked at the Amesbury Hat Co. Upon returning to West Paris she was a homemaker. After her family was grown, she was employed by Penley Corp., at the West Paris Town Office and the West Paris School.

She was an active member of the community for many years. She was a member of the West Paris Universalist Church and Board, Goodwill Fellowship, Crafty Women’s’ Group, West Paris Alumni Association, Onward Rebekah Lodge, Granite Chapter OES and the Finnish American Society. At present she was treasurer of the West Paris Wayside Cemetery Association and West Paris correspondent for the Bethel Citizen.

She enjoyed her camp at Hicks’ Pond, her cat “Lucky,” camping with her family and friends and shopping. She had traveled to Finland with her cousins and visited her relatives there. Vernon and Miriam spent their recent winters in Brandon, Fla. Family and friends will sadly miss her presence here and in Florida.

Survivors are her husband of West Paris; her two daughters, Virginia Aridas of Lady Lake, Fla., and West Paris and Vivian Sanborn of North Conway, N.H.; sons, Marshall of North Pole, Alaska, and Walter Sr. of West Paris; grandchildren, Todd, Tony, Brant, Caroline, Vernon G. and Walter T.; her uncle, Edward Ahonen of Portland; and many cousins.

She was predeceased by her parents; and her son, Michael Gilbert in 1978.