SOUTH PARIS – Mary E. Henderson, 76, of Norway, died Saturday, May 17, at Market Square Health Care Center.

She was born in Boston, Mass., on March 7, 1932, the daughter of John G. and Kate MacIntyre Arden. She attended Boston schools and graduated from Brookline High School in 1949.

Her mother died when she was three years old. She spent several summers at Cape Breton Island with her aunts, uncles and cousins, while her father worked. After her graduation from high school, she joined the Marine Corps Reserves and moved to Florida.

During her reserve time, she stayed in Florida, and worked in hotels in Key West, serving in the dining rooms. It was there she met Richard Henderson of Oxford, who also worked in the hotel. They continued to work there in the winter months and at the Balsams Resort in Dixville Notch, N.H., in the summer. They married in 1957.

She loved New England, especially Maine, so much that she wanted to stay here. She worked as a key punch operator at Sanborn’s Express in Oxford, the office of C.B. Cummings in Norway and had also worked at the Norway Town Office for a time. For most of her career, she worked at Norway National Bank and retired from Key Bank in 1994.

She enjoyed bowling and bowled in local leagues as well as volunteering with the Stephens Memorial Hospital Auxiliary at the Thrift Shop. She also enjoyed going out to eat and will be remembered for her sense of humor and her laugh. She especially enjoyed her special friends, Betty Knight and Mary LeBreque, who she spent time with and were a great support during her illness.

She is survived by her son, Glenn P. Henderson and his companion, Christine Kerrigan, of Brunswick; three stepsons, R. Michael Henderson and his wife, Lori, of Foster, R.I., Bruce R. Henderson of New Haven, Conn., and Richard “Rick” Henderson of West Paris; her sister-in-laws, Pauline Robinson and her husband, Winfield, of Oxford and Alice Arden of Bedford, Mass.; three nephews; one niece; and several cousins.

She was predeceased by her brother, John “Jack” Arden in 2007.