WEST PARIS – Barbara H. Brown, 64 Birch St., Bryant Pond, passed away at Ledgeview Living Center Nov. 9.

She was born in Bethel on May 4, 1914, a daughter of Arthur E. and Eva Glines Herrick. She attended Bethel schools, graduating as salutatorian from Gould Academy in 1931, and from Peter Bent Brigham School of Nursing in 1935, after one year at Nasson College. She had worked as a registered nurse at Rumford Community Hospital for many years.

She married Norris Thurston Brown of Bethel, who died in 1997, and they made their home in Bethel for 60 years.

She enjoyed providing fresh flower arrangements from her vast garden for the Bethel Historical Society and the West Parish Congregational Church for years. She was a talented artist, musician and craftsperson, who won many ribbons at agricultural fairs for her hooked and braided rugs and her paintings. She was a member of the West Parish Congregational Church and many fraternal organizations; she was an athlete who enjoyed hiking, skiing, skating and walking (long before it was fashionable!). She also loved to travel, particularly on the Delta Queen and watching sunsets in Florida. She was a wise, productive, organized, loving wife, mother and grandmother.

Survivors included two daughters and son-in-laws, Susan B. and Charles W. Kettinger of Salem, N.H., and Vicky and Bill Myers of Bryant Pond; four grandchildren, C. William Kettinger Jr, Daniel N. Meyers and his wife, Kelly, Cherilyn M. Barden and her husband, Michael, and Clint T. Myers; four great-grandchildren, Justyne, Jessika and William Myers and Daniel Barden; and a nephew, Brian J. McCrodden.

She was predeceased by her parents; her sister, Kathryn McCrodden; and nephew, Douglas McCrodden.