NORWAY —   Virginia “Ginny” J. Bean, 91, a resident of Norway, died peacefully at Stephens Memorial Hospital on Thursday, May 31.

Ginny was born on May 14, 1921, in Norway. She was the daughter of Doris E. Bennett and Howard F. Jewell and stepdaughter of Harley L. Bennett. She graduated from Paris High School in 1939.

On May 27, 1943 she married Ashley R. Bean in Valdosta, Ga., where Ashley was enlisted in the Army Air Corp. Following a brief honeymoon, Ashley was deployed to England to fly B17 bomber runs over Germany. Ginny moved back to South Paris to live with her mother and stepfather. Ashley was a POW for 17 months and during that time, Ginny gave birth to their first daughter, Brenda. After Ashley’s return from the service, they moved to South Paris and together raised three daughters and one son.

Ginny was a homemaker for several years while her children were growing up. When her last child started first grade in 1964, she went to work at the South Paris Savings Bank in Market Square, which eventually became Maine Savings, beginning a 21-year career in banking. She began as a teller and worked her way up to branch assistant. She retired from the bank on July 1, 1985.

After her retirement, she and Ashley sold their house in South Paris to spend winters in Fort Myers, Fla. and summers at their cottage on Norway Lake. Several years after Ashley died, she sold her place in Florida and bought a home in the Town & Country Mobile Home Park in Norway, where she spent her winters and continued to summer at the lake. In 2006 she went to live with her oldest daughter, Brenda, where she continued to live until her death.

Ginny loved the ocean and would spend as much time at the beach as she could. She also loved to golf and over the years was a member at both Paris Hill Country Club and Norway Country Club. But her favorite place was at “camp,” where she did lots of entertaining for family and friends. She was also a member of the First Congregational Church of South Paris.

She is survived by her children and spouses, one son, Robert Bean and his wife, Patsy of Grande Isle, Vt., and three daughters, Brenda Richardson and her husband, Robert of Norway, Debbie Shureb and her husband, Ron of Dade City, Fla. and Norway, Barb Bishop and her husband, Carl of Hebron; ten grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren.

She was predeceased by her husband, Ashley, in 1991; and her brother, Robert Jewell, in 2011.

Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.oxfordhillsfuneralservices.com.