AUBURN — Gilbert Parker Wood, 90, son of the late John and Sylvie Parker Wood died Nov. 14, at the Hospice House.

He was born Feb. 11, 1920, on the Stetson Farm in Greene. He graduated from Leavitt Institute in 1937, and attended Bates College for one year. He worked for John Sawyer, Clarence Beal and Seward Mower as a teenager and young adult. Later he hired himself and his John Deere tractor out to local farmers and landowners plowing, cultivating and mowing fields.

He went to work as a linotype machinist for the Lewiston Sun Journal in 1944, where he stayed until 1977, shortly after hot-lead linotype machines became obsolete.

In 1977, he became executive secretary of the Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial Foundation and remained in that position until his retirement in 1999.

He married Catherine Macdonald on Sept. 22, 1945, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and they made their home for 46 years at the Rackley-Philbrook homestead in Greene. They raised three sons: John, Alan and Mark.

From 2002 Catherine and he had made their home at The Meadows in Greene. Catherine died in 2004 after 59 years of marriage.

Gilbert was a member of the Baptist Church of Greene for 72 years, where he served as deacon, trustee and Sunday school teacher. He served as moderator at town meetings and as a member of the school board and the planning board in its infancy.

For many years, he was a director of the board of Camp Berea in North Turner. One of his few regrets was that he had been judged 4-F due to a heart murmur during World War II and could not serve his country.

He is survived by his three sons and their wives, John C. and Lindy Varney Wood of Turner, Alan G. and Sheila Creamer Wood of Greene and Mark D. and Judy Jackson Wood of Poland; grandson, Ian Wood and his wife, Ellen and great-grandson, Jared; granddaughter, Jennifer and great-grandsons, Parker and Blake Springer and great-granddaughter, Madelyn Springer; granddaughter-in-law, Sasha and great-granddaughter, Aili Wood and great-grandson, Ross; grandson, Christopher Wood and his wife, Michele, and their Baby Wood; sisters, Ruth Wood of Greene and Mary Wood Greaton and brother-in-law, Winston Greaton, of Lewiston; nieces and nephews on the Wood/Greaton side; and cousins on the Parker and Wood/Smith sides of the family too.

He was predeceased by his parents; his beloved wife; sister, Carolyn Wood; grandson, Ross Wood; and daughter-in-law, Margit Staufenthal Wood.

The family expresses sincere gratitude to the staff at Androscoggin Hospice House.