1906 – 2004

FARMINGTON – Etta W. Mann, 97, a former resident of Livermore Falls, died Wednesday, March 31, at Edgewood Rehabilitation & Living Center where she had resided since 1990.

She was born on Oct. 15, 1906, in Parsonsfield, the daughter of Charles E. and Anna Day Weeks. She attended the Parsonsfield schools and was a graduate of Gorham Teacher’s College.

On Oct. 15, 1926, she married John R. Bradeen in Cornish. He passed away on Oct. 7, 1954.

During World War II, she volunteered at the Civil Air Patrol. She was a schoolteacher for 22 years, teaching in Sebago, Limington and Cornish, retiring in 1970. She later worked at the Treat Memorial Library in Livermore Falls.

On March 29, 1972, she married Cecil Mann of Livermore Falls. He passed away on June 27, 1986. She was a former member of the Methodist Church in Cornish and the North Livermore Baptist Church in Livermore. She was also a former member of the Rebekah Lodge and the Cornish Grange.

She always enjoyed her time with the senior citizens of Canton, North Livermore, and Jay-Livermore Falls. She had many interests including sewing, crocheting, knitting, cooking and travelling.

She is survived by a daughter, Mary Wilson and her husband Charles of Queensbury, N.Y.; two brothers, Willard Weeks and Woodrow Weeks and his wife Grace; 11 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by a son in 1941; two stepdaughters, Elaine Knight and Elise Littlehale; and a sister-in-law, Helen Weeks.