AUBURN – Gladys H. Moon, 68, of True Street, Freeport, died Tuesday, Sept. 4, at the Hospice House.

She was born in Freeport on Nov. 3, 1938, the daughter of Arthur E. and Edith E. (Cummings) Bickford Sr.

She attended Freeport schools and graduated from Freeport High School, Class of 1957. She married Ted Moon in 1962.

Being a homemaker most of her life, her jobs also included child care, nursing aide at Maine Medical Center, and her contract with the town with her flower gardening at the Town Hall and other locations.

Besides gardening, she also enjoyed quilting and Pirates hockey, which she was an avid fan, and was a great cook.

She had a long association with the 4-H, which she was in her 39th year as a 4-H lLeader, and also had a local club of 10 to 20 members. She served on the state 4-H Dairy Management Committee and in the late 1970s was elected president of the Cumberland County Extension Executive Board. She also was a member of the Cumberland County 4-H Swiner’s Club.

She and her husband had traveled to Hershey and Lancaster, Pa., Prince Edward Island, and had also made 20 trips to the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Mass., between 1979 and 1998.

She was a member of the Compass Point Community Church in Brunswick and was a life member of the Freeport Rescue.

Surviving are her husband of Freeport; two sons, Brent Moon, and his wife, Sandra, of Durham and Blaine Moon of Freeport; her brother, Elliot Bickford of Orange Park, Fla.; three grandsons; four granddaughters; two great-grandsons; and three great-granddaughters.