1921 – 2014

LEEDS — Clara L. Pease, 93, a resident of Leeds Junction Road in Leeds, died Tuesday, Nov. 25, at her residence.

She was born in Windsorville on Feb. 11, 1921, a daughter of James H. and Irene M. (Traver) Cornish Lewis. Clara attended Franklin Grade School and Lincoln Academy in Newcastle. On Sept. 22, 1944, in Fort Smith, Ark., Clara married Richard A. Pease; Richard passed away Feb. 18, 2007. She and Richard had been married for 62 years.

She was a housewife and mom to her four children, but for a while during the war, Clara worked at Bath Iron Works in the paint department. While at BIW, she belonged to the “paint gang.”

Clara enjoyed art and poetry and loved to read. She was a “crafty” person, even though she didn’t think so; she wrote many poems and had drawn and painted many pictures. Clara was a member of the Church of the Nazarene in Leeds and served as a Sunday school teacher for several years.

She is survived by a son, Philip A. Pease and his wife, Lynn, of Leeds; three daughters, Kathryn Cummings and her husband, Charles, Barbara Burnham and her husband, Robert, and Pamela Buckley and her husband, Hugh, all of Leeds; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

She was predeceased by her parents; her husband, Richard Pease; three brothers, Herbert, Robert and Worthen Lewis; a sister, Mavis Moody; three half-brothers, Leonard, Ivory and Chester Cornish; and two half-sisters, Thelma Sprague and Yetive Hilton.

Messages of condolence may be sent to www.finleyfuneralhome.com.