BRYANT POND – Wilma Mae Poland Day, 83, has left her home to join her Lord and Savior on April 19.

She was born May 18, 1924, in Milton Plantation. She was the daughter of Charles N. and Edith Buck Poland.

In order to attend high school, she boarded with Harry Howe of Bryant Pond and did the cooking and housekeeping chores when she was 12. She graduated from Woodstock High School in 1943, as class valedictorian. She went on to Bliss Business College of Lewiston, where she completed a two year secretarial course in one year to earn her associates degree.

While attending college, she stayed at the YWCA. The Y-Girls went to Crowley’s Junction for Saturday night dances. The servicemen from the Brunswick area came to these dances. They also attended concerts in the park. She also worked in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wellehan of Lamey-Wellehan as a housekeeper/nanny.

After her marriage to Robert H. Day, they lived in Greene, where he worked as a manager on the Sawyer Farm.

When they moved to Bryant Pond, she went to work as an administrative secretary at Rumford Paper Mill. They started a dairy farm in Bryant Pond. They went on to open an Agway Store in Rumford, which they operated together until they retired.

She and Robert were active members of the Bryant Pond Baptist Church and the Franklin Grange in Bryant Pond. She met Robert at a Grange dance and they greatly enjoyed going to the Saturday night dances in Locke Mills and dancing to Richard Felts Band.

Some of her activities were Grange secretary, Sunday school teacher, president of Milton Greenleaf Cemetary Association, and a secretary/treasurer for Abbotts Mills Cemetery.

She greatly enjoyed attending any sporting games, events or academic functions in which her children and later her grandchildren participated. She rarely missed a game. She was a lady who would do anything for her family. She had a wonderful smile and laugh. She will be greatly missed.

She is survived by her son, Robert H. Day Jr. and his wife, Bonita, of New Gloucester; her daughter, Kathryn and husband, Christopher Hurd of Bryant Pond; four grandchildren, Andrew Day of Gray, Kristie Hutchins and her husband, Benjamin, of Bryant Pond, Nathan Hurd of Lisbon Falls and Brenda Hurd of Boothbay Harbor; she has four great-grandchildren ranging in age from 18 to three weeks, Abigail Hutchins, Brooke Hutchins, Caiden Hutchins and Owen Hurd; also, her brother, Clayton Poland and his wife, Elizabeth, of Waterville.