GREENWOOD – Rena Louise Wyman Curtis, 84, of Greenwood, died Tuesday, Aug. 30, at her son’s residence in Greenwood.

She was born July 20, 1921, in Portland, the daughter of Walter Ray Wyman and Josephine Hattie Bradman.

She moved to Gray and then to New Gloucester, where she started school with Mrs. Effie Dunlop as her first teacher.

Her first job was husking corn at 5 cents a bushel for Jane Morriel.

She worked for many years at B.E. Cole shoe shop in Norway. She had also worked for the Bethel Citizen in Bethel.

She met Fred Otis Curtis and they got married in Lewiston on Dec. 14, 1940. They went to North Haven on their honeymoon in the spring.

She is survived by her children, Evelyn Heikkinen of Rumford, Walter F. H. and wife, Laurie, from Kingsbury, Carl and wife, Betty, from Greenwood, Kenneth and wife, Helen, from Turner Station, Ky., Albert and wife, Marie, of Greenwood, Lillian and husband, Glenn, from Pownal, Ray and wife, Cheryl, from Lovell, and Rena and Fred Love; 23 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; six step grandchildren; 14 step great-grandchildren; two brothers, Carl Wyman of California, and Gerald Wyman and wife, Josephine, from Brunswick; a sister, Ruth Collin from Brunswick; and niece, Ada Cogswell from Brunswick.

She was predeceased by her husband, Fred O. Curtis, in June 1988; and a daughter, Colister Cogswell on March 26, 2003.