YARMOUTH – Jean Stanley Cameron Warren, 82, of Fryeburg, died June 24, at Bay Square in Yarmouth, where she had resided for the last year.

She was born on Nov. 28, 1922, in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of Agnes Whitemore Gammon and George Clifton Cameron. As a child, she resided mainly in Oak Park, Ill., but also lived in Marietta, Ohio. From her earliest years, she summered with her grandparents in Fryeburg before permanently returning to live at Highland Park in the late 1930s. She attended Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Ill., before graduating from Fryeburg Academy. She attended Butler University in Indianapolis, Ind., and received her bachelor’s degree from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Mich. As a mature student, she studied interior design.

Having met at the academy in 1946, she married Willard Warren II, from Lovell. Once married, they lived in Boston, while she worked at John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., before having children. They returned to Fryeburg in 1955. She then lived in Huntington, W.Va., and Lansdowne, Pa., from 1956 to 1958, while her husband worked with her father on oil refinery construction projects. In 1957, they gutted and remodeled the caretaker’s house at Highland Park, which was moved in 1963, down the mile-long dirt road and onto on the main road. Before her husband’s retirement, she commuted with him spending her weekdays in Boston, while he was employed.

From 1959 to 1971, she taught mathematics at Fryeburg Academy. While teaching, she served the community at the Congregational Church, was a Girl Scout leader and served on the school board. While in Boston, she actively volunteered at the Museum of Science, serving as chair of the museum’s giant garage sale. Upon her husband’s retirement and permanent return to Fryeburg, she volunteered her time at the Victoria Mansion in Portland, the Fryeburg Public Library, served as the co-chair of the capital campaign for the science building at Fryeburg Academy and was an active member of the Fryeburg Church of New Jerusalem. In later years, she joined her husband working at the Fryeburg Fair as the schoolteacher in the little red schoolhouse, part of the fair’s museum complex.

An avid learner all her life, her interests were as varied as couture sewing, knitting, gourmet cooking, art, architecture and reading. Throughout her life, she traveled extensively throughout the Mid-west, Argentina in 1950, Canada, the West Coast of the United States, cruising on the Delta Queen, travels throughout Europe and an almost yearly adventure to the British Isles, always making friends where ever she traveled.

She is survived by her husband, Willard II, of Fryeburg; a son, Willard III, and his wife, Daphne, of Saco; a daughter, Hannah Warren and her husband, Lewis Chasteen, of Fryeburg; and a granddaughter, Katie Jean Warren of Malden, Mass.

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