NORWAY – Winona Haslett, 76, of Poland, died Friday evening, June 1, at Stephens Memorial hospital.

She was born in Mechanic Falls on April 27, 1931, the daughter of Harold and Dorothy Goss Sr. She attended the Harris Hill Grammar School and Poland schools, and graduated from Mechanic Falls High School in 1949.

She graduated from Wheaton College in Illinois in 1953, with a B.S. in zoology. She took night classes at Roosevelt University and Illinois Institute of Technology from 1954 to 56. She also took night classes at the University of Maine, Farmington, in elementary math. She graduated in 1980 from the University of Maine, Gorham, with an M.S. in elementary education and received her LPN license in 1983 from St. Mary’s School of Nursing.

In early years, she worked part time at the family hardware store in Mechanic Falls, then as a lab tech at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Medical School. From 1964 to 1965, she was an elementary school teacher at Canaan Christian School and from 1965 to 1968, worked in the research department at Maine Medical Center. From 1969 to 1987, she was a teacher for SAD 6 Buxton and Hollis, teaching grades 2 and 4.

Winona worked part-time at Andrews Nursing Home, then at Androscoggin Home Health in the early 1980s. From 1984 to 1994, she worked at Clover Health Care Hospice.

She was a member of the Pleasant Street Baptist Church in Mechanic Falls.

She is survived by her children, Joel Haslett and his wife, Penny, of Oxford, Jonathan Haslett and his wife, Gail, of Millville, N.J., and Jeanne Wassiff and her husband, Moody, of Dallas, Texas; her parents, of Poland; five sisters, Evangeline and William Jackson of Sinton, Texas, Ellen Goss of Arlington, Va., Jane and James Whitesell of Palm Coast, Fla., Faith and Michael Pock of South Portland, and Grace and John Cartwright of Ashburn, Va.; one brother, Harold Goss Jr. and his wife, Mary Ellen, of Poland; grandchildren Garrett, Abraham, Jacob, Aaron, Micah, Courtney and Caleb Haslett, and Paul, Joshua and Peter Wassiff.

She was predeceased by a sister, Ruth Averill.

The family would like to thank the nurses at Market Square Health Care Center and Stephens Memorial Hospital for the wonderful care their mother received.