SOUTH PARIS – Arlene E. Brown died Nov. 25, at Market Square Health Center, where she had resided for the past six weeks.

She was born Oct. 18, 1919, in Fryeburg, to Abbie Richardson Brown and E. Leroy Brown.

She attended the one-room schoolhouse in East Fryeburg and then Fryeburg Academy until the family moved to Bethel, where she graduated from Gould Academy in 1938.

The family owned Browns’ Variety Store in Bethel and after graduation she worked in the store and rented boarding rooms in the upstairs.

In the early ’40s, she moved to Lewiston and began working for F.W. Woolworth.

She transferred to Haverhill, Mass., bought a home in West Newbury, and eventually became W.F. Woolworth’s district supervisor of the lunch departments across New England.

In 1980, she moved to Salem, N.H. and managed the lunch counter in Kmart until her retirement.

All her life, she was an avid bird watcher and gardener.

In her youth, she skied, hiked mountains and owned a riding horse. She was a member of the Audubon Society and past-president of the Salem Garden Club.

She also loved to travel, visiting many places in the U.S., Canada and Italy.

Friends remember her with one or two cats in residence and beautiful gardens with many feeder birds.

She considered herself very fortunate to have so many loving friends and neighbors, and she was a treasured friend, aunt, sister, and daughter.

She is survived by a sister, Rachel MacKay and husband, Blake; and nine nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her parents; two brothers, Jim and his wife, Bea, and Alfred and his wife Faith; and a niece, Linda Brown Foster.