Canton – Frances (Pettengill) Gile, 94, a longtime resident of Fayette, passed away Monday, Oct. 2, at the Victorian Villa Nursing Home after a long illness.

She was born in Lewiston on March 27, 1912, the daughter of James G. and Ada Mae (Jackson) Pettengill. She was raised on her father’s farm in Leeds and attended Leeds school and Monmouth Academy. She worked summers at Fayette Mills for the Greene family.

This is where, at age 16, she met her future husband, George Gile. They were married five years later on Oct. 28, 1933. They lived in Oakland for five years, moving back to George’s family farm in 1938, where she spent the remainder of her life until two years ago when she moved to the Victorian Villa in Canton. George passed away on July 7, 1978.

She loved her flower and vegetable gardens and enjoyed a wealth of friends. She was a member of the Fayette Corner Baptist Church Ladies Aid Society and was a ballot clerk for the town of Fayette during the elections.

She is survived by a son, Lauriston P. Gile, and his wife, Jane, of Livermore Falls; grandsons, George Gile of Kittery and Tobin Gile of Sandy, Ore.; granddaughter, Kelley-Jo Barrieault of Orlando, Fla.; sisters, Dorothy Ray of Lewiston, Eleanor Johnson of Auburn, Elizabeth Perkins of South Paris and Helen Wortherspoon, and her husband, John, of Minot; great-grandsons, Casey Burhoe and Beaumont Gile; great-granddaughters, Cassandra and Miranda Gile.

She was predeceased by an infant daughter, Patricia Elaine in 1943; brothers, Russell Pettengill and Jamie Pettengill; and sisters, Virginia Pettengill, Marion Fuller and Beatrice Jordan.