SOUTH PARIS – Ruth White Wight, 84, of Bethel, died April 11, at Market Square Health Care Center following a brief illness.

Born in Searsport, Feb. 13, 1920, the daughter of Leon and Laura Trundy White, she attended Bangor schools and graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1941, with a degree in English.

She married William Walton Wight, a native of Bethel, on April 6, 1942. After his death in 1958, she obtained a master’s degree in library science and was employed as an elementary school librarian in Milford, Conn. for 17 years.

After her retirement in 1982, she moved to Bethel. Her greatest joy in life was the time she shared with her family, especially at the camp they built on North Pond in Woodstock, where she spent more than 50 wonderful summers.

She was active in her community, especially in the West Parish Congregational Church in Bethel. She was a member of the Bethel Historical Society and volunteered in local schools and the public library. Of all her activities, none brought her more joy than her role as “Gramma Wight.” She will be remembered for her hundreds of hand-knit mittens and thousands of homemade cookies, but most of all for the love and kindness she showed to everyone whose lives she touched.

Survivors include three sons and their wives, Steve and Peggy of Newry, Greg and Tammy of Brookfield, Vt., and Andy and Marleen of Branford, Conn.; two daughters and their husbands, Leslie and Bob Grenier of Mount Vernon and Amy and Tony Chapman of Greenwood; her “third daughter,” Amy’s lifelong best friend, Donna Funteral of Portsmouth, N.H.; two brothers, Gilbert White of Bangor and Donald White and his wife, Leota of Glastonbury, Conn.; a sister-in-law, Jerry White of Savoy, Ill.; 15 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents and her husband, she was predeceased by a brother, Leon White Jr.