GREENFIELD, Mass. – Lavinia M. Pipe Gardner, 87, formerly of 42 Pinewoods Road, Lisbon, died Monday morning, Oct. 18, in Greenfield, Mass.

She was born on Oct. 5, 1918, in Holton St. Mary, Suffolk, England, the daughter of James S. and Marie (Bourkel) Pipe. She attended the Copdock Council School in England and later entered domestic service, becoming a first class cook.

During World War II, she worked with her father farming and maintaining a dairy herd.

She met her husband, George Gardner, while he was serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps 353rd Fighter Group at Raydon Air Field during World War II. They were married on June 26, 1945, in Ipswich, England. He predeceased her in 1996. They came back to the United States after the war, arriving at Perkins Ridge, Auburn, in the spring of 1948.

She later lived in the Lewiston-Auburn area, finally settling in Lisbon, where she lived and raised her family for nearly 50 years. She was a former member of the St. Matthews Episcopal Church Guild in Lisbon for many years. She worked in the Lisbon area as a housekeeper for several families and later a cook for the Lamp Nursing Home in Lisbon. She enjoyed gardening, sewing and cooking.

She is survived by two daughters, Joanne Gardner and her husband, Thomas Boisvert, of Northfield, Mass., and Joyce Pfleiderer and her husband, Jeffrey, of Orlando, Fla.; one sister, Jeanne Christie of Scotland; and grandchildren, James and Jeffrey Pfleiderer, and Sally and Marie Boisvert.