SCARBOROUGH – Cecile Chabot (Bergeron) Brown, of Chamberlain Road, Scarborough, left us to be with the Lord and her beloved Brownie on July 21, after a brief stay at Piper Shores.

She was born on Nov. 10, 1921, in Lewiston, the daughter of Joseph P. and Marie (St. Pierre) Chabot. She attended Lewiston schools and Acme Business College for girls. After her marriage to Edmund Bergeron, they left for New York City to start their family, having two sons, Donald Norman and Robert.

Shortly after the beginning of the war, they returned to Maine. She joined the legion of “Rosie the Riveters” at the South Portland Shipyard, where she quickly attained the rank of first-class lead welder. Continuing in the war effort, she went to Connecticut to learn blueprint reading and subsequently became a quality- control inspector.

Returning to Lewiston, she remarried to Clifton “Brownie” Brown in Mechanic Falls on Aug. 20, 1949. The family then moved to South Portland, where Brownie was employed by Hemingway and she by the Splendid Restaurant.

In November 1954, she and Brownie joined the First Baptist Church on Congress Street in Portland and continued in Bible studies there until Brownie went home to be with the Lord in February 1968.

Brownie and Cecile built their “dream” home in Scarborough in 1962. Her passion and joy then became her flower gardens, particularly her “rock garden,” which expanded every year. An annual ritual was the spring planting of 12 deep red geraniums to complement the white window boxes and the multicolored perennials.

She is survived by her sons, Donald Bergeron of Houston, Texas and Robert Bergeron and his wife, Rosalie (Carey), of Tempe, Ariz.; grandson, Steven Mark Bergeron and wife, Cheryl of Flagstaff, Ariz.; granddaughters, Susan (Bergeron) Paetz and her husband, Kerry, of Phoenix, Ariz., Joanna Bergeron of Rowley, Mass. and Leslie Bergeron Sudak of Bedford, N.H.; great-grandchildren, Steven Robert Bergeron and his wife, Nicole, Aaron Bergeron and Nate Bergeron, all of Flagstaff, Ariz., Christopher and Kyle Paetz of Phoenix, Ariz. and Hannah and Ellie Sudak of Bedford, N.H; great-great-grandchildren, Deanne and Mark Bergeron (twins) also of Flagstaff, Ariz.; nieces, Erin Robb of Keene, N.H., Carol Cleveland Waite of Milton and Gloria Hewey of West Forks; nephews, John and David Cleveland of Auburn and Philip Cleveland of California; and best friends, Mabel Carey and Shirley McLaughlin.

She was predeceased by Brownie; her parents; her sisters, Emilienne, Germaine, Madeline and Carmen; and her brothers, Charles and Phillip.