NORWAY – Kathleen Clark McAllister, 93, of Bryant Pond, died Nov. 17 at Stephens Memorial Hospital. She had been a resident at Ledgeview Living Center for several years.

She was born April 15, 1912, in Pembroke, the daughter of the late William Clark and Gertrude Robinson Clark. Kathleen married Russell C. McAllister in 1951; he died in 1984.

She was very active in many organizations including Franklin Grange, American Legion Auxiliary in Locke Mills, Daughters of Veterans, and Pythian Sisters State Temple 1. She was past matron and longtime secretary of Jefferson Chapter 89 O.E.S. of Bryant Pond, past trustee of Whitman Memorial Library, and in past years was an active member of the Republican Party. She loved working at the polls on Election Day.

She took painting lessons and loved to paint. She also loved to travel and visit the different organizations she belonged to. Kathleen was noted for her uncanny ability to remember the birth dates of her many family members.

She worked for many years at Stowell’s Mill and Mann’s Mill in Bryant Pond and spent some time at MacKillop’s Store in Bryant Pond and McKeen’s Orchards in West Paris. She was also a bookkeeper for her husband’s plumbing and heating business, R. C. McAllister.

She is survived by two daughters, Beverly Tuttle of Bethel and Margie Varney of Greenville, S.C.; two sons, Peter Cox of Woodbine, Kan., and Charles McAllister of South Paris; 18 grandchildren; 43 great-grandchildren; and 13 great-great-grandchildren; as well as a good friend and roommate, Emily Mae Dubois of Ledgeview Living Center.

She was predeceased by her first husband, Burton Cox, and her second husband, Russell McAllister; two daughters, Norma Burns and Gwendolyn Saunders; two brothers, Raymond and Paul Clark; six sisters, Evelyn Cushing, Madeline Rice, Iva Huntley, Marther Morrison, Gertrude Leighton and Lois Freeto; and three grandchildren, Jay Cox, Michael Cox and Sandra McAllister.

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