LEWISTON – Patricia Ann (Breed) Grose, 75, of Chesterville, died Wednesday, Feb. 21, at Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston.

She was born on March 19, 1931, in Laconia, N.H., the daughter of Walter E. and Lillian A. (Patenaude) Breed. She attended schools in Laconia, N.H.; Needham, Mass.; Arlington, Va., Durham, N.C., and graduated from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, in 1954 with a bachelor’s degree in education.

On Aug. 22, 1953, she married Francis Farrington Grose in Waterville. She taught art in the Massachusetts public school system for 13 years. In 1966, she and her husband, also an art educator, and their four children went to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as lay missionaries to teach in two United Methodist institutions. After spending a year in language school to learn Portuguese, they remained in Rio for four more years.

In 1971, the family returned to Massachusetts where she joined the art department of the Haverhill Public Schools. In 1981, she and her husband returned to the mission field, this time to Zimbabwe, where they taught art education at Nyadiri Teachers’ College in Mutoko. After finishing a term of three years there, they requested a transfer to be closer to aging parents. In March of 1985, they were sent to work at the Latin American Biblical Seminary in San Josi, Costa Rica for a five-year term. While there, she taught English as a second language and also produced many religious banners for the seminary and other Methodist churches. After retiring from mission service in 1990, the Groses moved to a family home in Dryden, where they lived until moving to Chesterville in 2005.

She enjoyed gardening, reading, travel, copper enameling and especially creative needlework. She produced many original hangings and banners for homes and churches, and had a one-woman show of her work at the Inter-Church Center in New York City in 1974. She was a member of the Wilton United Methodist Church, the Massachusetts Retired Teachers’ Association and was a past member of the Wilton Historical Society.

She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Francis F. Grose, of Chesterville; their children, Stephen F. Grose, of Largo, Fla., Pamela A. Welty, of Ashby, Mass., and Virginia S. G. Farrington, of Chesterville; two sisters, Suzanne Frizzell of Alton Bay, N.H., and Audrey Taylor, of Warren, Pa.; and five grandchildren.

She was predeceased by a son, Brandon Z. Grose.