LEWISTON – Florida Bourassa Morin Huppe, 93, of 19 Pettingill St., Lewiston, died Thursday, July 20, after a decades-long battle with heart disease.

She was born in Lewiston on March 26, 1913, the third daughter of Frederick Bourassa and Lucina Beaudet Bourassa. She was educated in Lewiston schools and worked in local factories for many years as a young woman.

In 1932, she married Robert L. Morin. This marriage lasted more than 26 years until Robert L. Morin’s death in November 1958.

Remaining a widow for 13 years, she worked at many jobs including the Shapiro Bros. Shoe Factory, the Dairy Delight Outlet on Upper Main Street in Lewiston, and as a saleslady at Grant’s Department Store on upper Maine Street in Lewiston.

On June 19, 1971, she married Romeo A. Huppe, an executive with a large industrial electrical contractor, and traveled with him throughout the Eastern part of the United States and Canada, the Hawaiian Islands and Europe.

She considered her life an endless adventure. Upon her husband’s retirement in 1991, she returned with him to her paternal home at 19 Pettingill St. in Lewiston.

She was absolutely the best homemaker possible. She enjoyed sewing, cooking, baking pastries, working in her flower garden, and her many friends. Almost everyone who met her loved her instantly. She was an avid workaholic, extremely active and busy at all times; seemingly unable to tolerate inactivity or the waste of a moment’s time.

She was a communicant of St. Joseph’s Church in Lewiston, and a loyal supporter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, of which she was a Lifetime Auxiliary Member of Chapter 2699.

Her gentleness, generosity, honest and ready smile and friendly personality will be missed by many in our community, by her many friends and especially her husband, who loved her dearly.

Besides her husband, she leaves many nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by four sisters, Juliet in 1910, Violet in 1951, Muriel in 1970, and Alice in 1987.