NORWAY — Robert A. Crane Sr., 92, died peacefully at the Norway Rehabilitation Center on Friday, July 15.

He was born April 21, 1919, in Brighton, Mass., to the late Kennedy and Mittie (Lawrence) Crane Sr. He moved to Rockland as a small child and attended Rockland schools.

Robert, a local businessman, began his career in his family’s department store, Crane’s, in Skowhegan. He later owned and operated his own department stores, Crane’s in Caribou, and later in Norway. He also purchased and developed Mountain Motors, a General Motors dealership in Glen, N.H.

Upon retiring from retail business, he and his wife, Suzanne, opened a real estate agency, Robert Crane Associates, in Bethel. He retired back to Norway in 1992. He was an active member of the Caribou and Bethel Rotary Clubs, the Caribou and Norway Chamber of Commerce, and the Second Congregational Church of Norway.

He is survived by his wife, Suzanne Powers Wallace; and her two daughters, Cynthia Wallace Wilson and her husband, Craig, of Lafayette La., and Sheila Wallace Foster of Shreveport, La.; his four children, Rebecca Rafferty and her husband, John, of East Granby, Conn., Robert Jr. and his wife, Kathy, of Calabash, N.C., Dunton of Raleigh, N.C., and Margaret Coyne and her husband, Anthony, of Rockland; two brothers, Kennedy Crane Jr. of Cary, N.C., and Dr. Lawrence Crane of Scarborough; and many grandchildren; great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his former wife, Margaret Dunton Merritt.

Online condolences may be shared with the family at www.chandlerfunerals.com.