NORWAY – Annie H. Gardner, 91, of Norway, died Friday, Oct. 14, at Norway Rehabilitation and Living Center.

She was born in South Waterford on April 5, 1914, the daughter of Horace M. and Mary Hamlin Gardner. She attended school in Waterford and graduated from Portland High School. She attended Gorham Normal School and received her bachelor’s degree from Gorham State Teachers College. She received her master’s degree from the University of Maine at Orono and did graduate study at Boston University.

She taught school for 10 years at Plummer Hill in Waterford, Livermore Falls, Brownville Junction and Cape Elizabeth. She spent 32 years teaching at South Portland. She later taught in state homes for the disabled and problem children. She was listed in “Outstanding Educators in America” (a look at Who’s Who in American Education by the Academy of American Educators, Chicago).

She was a member of the Barton Reading Club, Waterford Historical Society, Women’s Fellowship at the Second Congregational Church in Norway, Maine Education Association and the Oxford and Cumberland county teachers associations. She was the first member of the first chapter in Maine of the Alpha Delta Kappa Fraternity. She was on the Housing Committee of the YMCA in Portland, the Bear Mountain Library, Bear Mountain Grange, Oxford Chapter O.E.S., American Association of University Women and the Zonta Club for Professional and Business Women.

She enjoyed oil painting, knitting, quilting and traveling, as well as reading and classical music. She also enjoyed swimming and bird-watching.

She is survived by three brothers, Edwin Gardner and his wife, Dora, of Waterford, Ralph Gardner of Harrison, and Charles (Loren) Gardner of Norway; and several nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her parents; a brother, Howard; and a sister, Agnes Howe.