FARMINGTON — Marilyn Eustis, 84, of Phillips, an interesting woman, loving wife and mother and devoted grandmother, died peacefully at the Franklin Memorial Hospital on March 7, after a brief illness.

She was born in Rangeley, Jan. 5, 1927, the second child of Leon R. Wing and Marion Wilbur. She was raised along with her sisters and brother in Madrid, where at an early age she learned how to pick cranberries along with her siblings on the family farm.

After graduating from high school, she spent a year living with her older sister, Virginia and working in Augusta. On June 29, 1947, she married Earl Eustis Jr. in a beautiful outdoor wedding at the home of her parents. She was a homemaker who took great pride in all of her children. She was very creative and taught herself how to make quilts and paint. The birth of each grandchild was always met with a new quilt from Gram Eustis. She was always the happiest when surrounded by grandchildren and later on by great-grandchildren.

She is survived by her husband of 63 years, Earl; one sister, Virginia Arment; five children, Jane Stinchfield, Judy Lisherness, Janice Eustis, Jim Eustis and Jeff Eustis; seven grandchildren, Patricia Pillsbury, Tara Reed, Robert Stinchfield Jr., Joshua Stinchfield, Justin Eustis, Hillary Eustis and Adam Gilbert; six great-grandchildren; and loving companion, Susan Mecham.