WEST PARIS – Dianna C. Hemingway of Harrison, passed away Thursday, Jan. 10.

She was born in Norway, Oct. 9, 1913, from a family of six daughters and three brothers to parents Arthur and Leontine Poirier from Quebec, Canada.

She worked in local shoe shops for many years, resided on a farm with her husband, Clifford H. Hemingway, in Millettville, raising a family of four children.

Always a worker, her pastimes were baking, canning, making scrumptious jellies and jams and watching the soaps on TV, as well as picking berries and going on family picnics.

She is survived by son, Barry Hemingway; two daughters, Lorraine Nadeau of Oxford and Cynthia Curtis and husband, Russell, of Harrison; grandchildren, Dana Hemingway and wife, Brendi, Dale Hemingway and wife, Tina, Cliff (Kip) Hemingway III and wife, Becky, Penny and Gene Bryant, Jill and Russ French, Jan and Dennis Barker, Cory and Tim Lapham, and Michael and Joel Curtis; great-grandchildren, Eugene Bryant Jr., Cliff Bryant, Rene and Nicole Hemingway, Dalten and Dione Hemingway, Timothy Hemingway, Joseph and Brett French and Dallas Curtis; two great-great-granddaughters, Madison and Aubrey Bryant; as well as many nieces and nephews. She loved each and every one.

She was predeceased by her husband, Clifford Hemingway, in March 1992; a son, Clifford Hemingway Jr., in October 2007; three brothers, Romeo, Harvey and Arthur (Hymie) Poirier; and five sisters, Juliet Myers, Alice Eldredge, Beatrice Zanoni, Laura Edgerly and Elizabeth Thibeault.