SOUTH PARIS — Pauline Mae Phelps, 83, died Saturday, Dec. 23, at Market Square in South Paris.

She was born May 22, 1934, in Auburn, to Leroy Daniel Phelps Sr. and Beatrice Saunders Phelps. She attended elementary schools in Mexico, Paris, Portland, South Portland and Oxford; Webster Junior High School in Auburn; and graduated from Oxford High School in the Class of 1951.

She graduated from the New England School of Theology in Brookline in 1956 and received a master’s degree in education from Boston Teachers College. She taught at a private school in Brookline, Mass., Boston public schools and St. James Educational Center. She was a teacher/administrator at Oxford Christian Academy in Oxford and a teacher at Guy E. Rowe Elementary School in Norway.

Pauline also raised nieces, Paula J. Woodbury and Tina Williams, and nephew, Daniel P. Phelps. She was known to some family members, including Jason Williams, Christopher DeMers, Joshua Delvlers, Shane Williams and Brandon Woodbury, as “Gram.” To others she was known as “Aunt Pauline.”

She was a member of Oxford Advent Christian Church, Somerville Advent Christian Church in Somerville, Mass., and St. James Episcopal Church in Roxbury, Mass.

She was a Bible teacher at Harbinger Bible Conference in Dalton, N.H., for 16 years and at Oxford Advent Christian Church and at private homes. Pauline spent summers at her cottage on Allen Pond in Greene and winters in Oxford.

Survivors include a sister, Ruby Foster and her husband, Donald, of Norway; nephew, Daniel P. Phelps, of Auburn; niece, Paula J. Woodbury and her husband, Ralph, of Liberty; many other nieces, nephews and cousins; and a close friend, Hazel Clifford, of Oxford.

She was predeceased by her parents; a niece, Tina Williams; a brother, Leroy D. Phelps Jr.; four half-sisters, Dorothy Pond, Geraldine Cowles, Audrey Ellsworth and Marion Minor; and a half-brother, Kenneth Swan.

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Pauline Mae Phelps