NORWAY – Lempi Yates Heath, 85, of South Paris, left this world in the arms of her Savior on Nov. 29, at Stephens Memorial Hospital. She suffered a fall on Nov. 4, and entered the Maine Veterans’ Home on High Street. She enjoyed acitivities there, especially the Sunday church services. She was a member of the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Greenwood Historical Society.

She was born in Harrison on April 6, 1921, the first child of John and Hilda Kangas Leino. At the age of 17, she married Glenn Yates and moved to Greenwood, where she raised her three children. Glenn passed away in 1964.

In September 1968, she married Cecil Heath. They continued to live at the farm in Greenwood until 2001, when they moved to Buck Hill Apartments on High Street. Cecil passed away shortly after they moved, but she continued to live there. She enjoyed company, doing her sewing projects and in the past year wrote a book entitled “Memories of Lower Greenwood.”

Family and friends were proud of her accomplishments. She enjoyed talking about it and adding to it, as she remembered other events. People also enjoyed the beautiful pillows she made for family and friends.

She is survived by brothers, Bruno, and wife, Ruth, Henry, and wife, Miriam, Harold, and wife, Helen and Walter; sisters, Lila Butterfield, and husband, Leslie, Eila Makey, and husband, John and Martha Leino; son-in-law, David Garthe, and wife, Violet; daughter-in-law, Louise Yates; grandchildren, Douglas Garthe, and wife, Ramona, Daniel Garthe, and wife, Stacy Milazzo, Marcia Yates Huston, and husband, Shawn and Jeffrey Yates, and wife, Joanne; stepdaughter-in-law, Linda Davis, and husband, Bill; several great-grandchildren and stepgreat-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her parents; her husbands; daughters, Irene Yates and Nancy Garthe; sons, John and Robert Yates; son-in-law, Roland Heath; sister, Helmi Leino; and five brothers, Arne, Matti, Lauri, Arthur and Eugene Leino.