LEWISTON – Beatrice (Bea) Evelyn (Marston) Phillips of Auburn, passed away June 11, after a short stay at Central Maine Medical Center.

She was born April 28, 1924, to Charles and Alice Marston in Rockport. She grew up the middle child of five and graduated from Rockport High School in 1942, where she was a member of the basketball team. She then moved to Whitinsville, Mass., where she worked in the machine shop making munitions for the war effort.

She moved back to Rockport in 1945, and married Malcolm (Mac) H. Phillips on Dec. 1, 1945. Together they built a home and a family, raising a daughter and a son in Rockport. She and her family moved to Auburn in 1959, and then to New Gloucester in 1971, where she lived until December 2006. In December, she moved to the Great Falls Esplanade in Auburn.

She worked for a number of years at Carville’s Confectioners, where she bagged bulk candy into retail-sized bags for distribution. She then worked at Health-Tex in Portland before going to work at Paragon Glass in Lewiston, from which she retired 11 years ago at the age of 72. Since then, she had always been on the go and ready to go anywhere.

Bea had several enjoyments in life. One was knitting numerous sweaters for her children and grandchildren. Another was making peanut butter fudge for all the family gatherings and sending some off to her granddaughter in college. Her third enjoyment was raising flowers in her flower gardens.

She has been a member of Court Street Baptist Church for almost 40 years. She was involved in the Clothes Closet, Chimes Choir and craft group at church, as well as serving at numerous special functions.

She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Katherine Troutt, and her husband, Joseph, of Knoxville, Tenn.; her son, David Phillips, and his wife, Carole, of Union; three brothers and a sister, Ralph Marston of Camden, Maurice Marston of Dover, Del., Helen Chater of Camden and Kenneth Marston of Union; three granddaughters, Dana Lynn Kearns of St. Louis, Mo., Dianne Heil of Kansas City, Mo., and Jennie Phillips of Gardiner; as well as six great-grandchildren.

She was predeceased by her husband in 1982.

She will be remembered fondly and missed by all.