SOUTH PARIS – Marian Louise Cummings York, 98, of South Paris died Wednesday, Sept. 1, at Market Square Health Care Center.

She was born in Paris on June 5, 1906, the daughter of Reginald L. and Nellie Pomeroy Cummings. She was educated in schools at Paris Hill and South Paris. She was hostess at the Paris Hill Country Club for many summers. In the winter she worked at Old Academy Hand Crafters.

She married Clayton York of Milan, N.H., in 1942. They lived at Paris Hill for a few years and then moved to Malvern, Pa. While in Pennsylvania, she attended the National School of Nursing in Philadelphia and graduated as a Licensed Practical Nurse.

In the 1950’s, they moved back to Maine, settling in Brunswick where she worked at Parkview Hospital. She was a life member of the Oxford Chapter 168 Order of the Eastern Star, a life-member of Foster-Carroll Legion Auxiliary 72 in South Paris, a member of the Waterford Grange 179, and at one time she had belonged to the Senior Citizens club of South Paris and North Waterford.

She retired in 1970, and she and her husband moved to North Waterford. Her husband passed away in 1974. In 1978, she began spending winters in Inverness, Fla., and kept house for Fred Judkins until 1998.

She is survived by a sister, Helen Tyler, of Winthrop; a brother, Wilmer Cummings, of Lakeworth, Fla; two nieces, Genester Cartonia, of West Gardiner and Bunny Trawick, of Inverness, Fla.

She was predeceased by two sisters, and two brothers.

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