RUMFORD – Muriel G. Parisi, 88, died Wednesday, July 6, at the Rumford Community Home in Rumford after a long illness.

She had made her home on Hancock Street in Rumford and had lived in the area since 1949.

She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on Jan. 4, 1917, a daughter of William and Mary (Shires) Mosher. She graduated from Hudson High School in Hudson, Mass., and attended beauty school in Worcester, Mass.

She was a professional hairdresser for several years in the Hudson area, prior to moving to Maine in 1949. She worked as an aide in the kitchen of the Rumford Community Hospital for 15 years, retiring in April 1982.

She was a member of the Rumford United Methodist Church, a former member of Gorizia Lodge 467, of Order of Sons of Italy in America, and a member of the Greater Rumford Senior Citizens and the Dixfield Senior Citizens.

Nicknamed “Sue” by her children, she enjoyed linedancing, making homemade bread, doing the Jumble word game in the daily newspaper, and was a fan of the Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” and its host, Bill O’Reilly.

She was married Peter J. Parisi in Portland on March 17, 1949. He died in Rumford on Nov. 4, 1998.

Survivors include three daughters, Carole Parisi, Marion Goodrich, and Carmella Rispoli and her husband Peter Rispoli, all of Schenectady, N.Y.; a son, Peter J. Parisi Jr. of Fairfax, Va.; a granddaughter, Maria Sinclair and her husband, Rick Sinclair, of Peru; two brothers, Ernest and Walter Mosher of Hudson, Mass.; and a special friend and neighbor, Debbie Giroux of Rumford.

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