LEWISTON – Alice Beatrice N. Laird, 87, of 43 Elmwood Road, Auburn, died Wednesday, March 1, at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, after a very brief illness.

She was born in Marlboro, Mass., Aug. 22, 1918, the daughter of Gustav A. and Bertha (Swenson) Nelson. She moved to Auburn as a young girl and graduated from Edward Little High School in the Class of 1936. She married Arthur G. Laird on May 17, 1941.

During the 1940s and 1950s, she was an accomplished archer, having won five Maine state championships. She was a member of the Orumby Archery Club of Auburn and both the state and national archery associations.

She was employed as a dental assistant for the late Dr. Archer Jordan DDS. She was a noted quilter who resided in her husband’s ancestral home in East Auburn, where they both participated in East Auburn clubs and activities. She also loved birds and her membership in the XYL’s a group of spouses of ham radio operators. She was a devoted mother and homemaker.

Survivors include one daughter, Janet Lagassee and her husband, Arthur, of Auburn; one grandson, Nicholas Lagassee and his wife, Gretchen, of Auburn; one sister, Eleanor Conant and her husband, Donald, of Auburn; and many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.

She was predeceased by her husband, Arthur G. Laird, in 1990; four brothers; and three sisters.

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