LEWISTON – Evelyn A. Flood, 98, of East Poland and Lewiston, died Feb. 21 at Central Maine Medical Center, after a brief illness.

She was born Jan. 25, 1909, In Exeter, the daughter of Leon Avery and Gertrude (Sawtelle) Avery. A survivor of the great flu pandemic of 1919, she was raised in Corinna, educated in local schools and was valedictorian of the Corinna Union Academy, Class of 1927. She matriculated at Boston University and graduated in 1931, with a bachelor’s degree in religious education. She returned to Maine, and for two years worked for the Methodist church throughout the state.

On June 5, 1933, at her parents’ home in Corinna, she married the Rev. Ernest C. Flood, a Methodist pastor and recent Bangor Seminary graduate. Together, for the next 40 years, they served churches in Lisbon, Fairfield, Kezar Falls, Sanford, Portland: Congress Street, Old Town and Stillwater, Bangor: Grace Church and Livermore Falls. She concentrated on childrens and youth work, serving as Sunday school teacher and superintendent and director of evening youth fellowship. In the late 1950s she began to substitute in the public schools and starting in 1961, she taught for 11 years in the elementary schools of Old Town and Livermore Falls. After her retirement in 1972, she lived for the next 30 years at the Empire Grove Methodist Campground, in East Poland. Her final years were spent at Russell Park Living Center, in Lewiston.

She was a major figure at the state level of the Methodist church’s women’s society, holding numerous offices, including state president. She was also a delegate to numerous regional and national conferences in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. In addition, she was a fine homemaker, an excellent cook, a superb baker and an accomplished needlewoman and quilter.

Survivors include two sons, Dr. Royce E. Flood, professor emeritus of communication studies from Butler University, in Indianapolis, and James D. Flood, instructor in organ and piano, at Villa Maria College in Buffalo, N.Y., and minister of music, at First Baptist Church in Niagara Falls; two granddaughters and three great-grandchildren.

She was predeceased by her husband, Ernest.