WEST PARIS – Florence Irene Gustafson, 87, of West Paris, died at the Ledgeview Living Center on May 22.

She was born in Broad Brook, Conn., on Dec. 17, 1917, the daughter of Levi and Grace (Torrey) Chase and attended Connecticut schools.

She was a homemaker most of her life and had been a member of the Franklin Grange, TOPS and the Bryant Pond Baptist Church.

She married Hilding R. Gustafson, on April 1, 1960; he died in 1988.