NORWAY – Esther Jane (Littlefield) (Johnson) Farnum, 100, died Wednesday, Jan. 14, at the Norway Rehabilitation Center after a brief illness. She had been a resident there for the past two years.

She was born in Woodstock, on March 26, 1908, the youngest child of John Clinton and Fannie (Peverley) Littlefield. She had attended various schools including Woodstock, Edward Little, and for a time she was schooled in Brookline, Mass., when her mother kept house for Dr. James Gallison and family.

She graduated from Edward Little High School in Auburn in 1927, and later graduated from Farmington Normal School at Farmington in 1930. She married Harold (Hap) Johnson on June 24, 1933, and later married Rupert Farnum on Feb. 24, 1945. He died in 1964.

She taught school in Peru for a term and later worked at Mann’s Mill in Bryant Pond for many years. After retirement, she worked parttime for a local newspaper. Her hobbies included reading, quilting, knitting, watching the Boston Red Sox and traveling with friends. She was a devoted member of the Universalist Church in both Bryant Pond and Norway and was a life member of the Jefferson Chapter O.E.S of Bryant Pond.

She is survived by one niece, Carolyn Vaughan of Dixfield; dozens of grandnieces and grandnephews and their progeny; the families of Roy Smith, whom she raised and considered as her own son; those members include Claire Smith of Wallingford Conn., Christopher and Blanca Smith and Naomi Smith of Southington Conn., Kathleen and Charles Corden of Floral City, Fla., Rebecca Smith of Meriden, Conn.,and Diana Pound of Colebrook, Conn.

She was predeceased by Roy Smith; nieces, Harriett S. Stowell and Janet S. Bowers; and a special grandnephew, William R. Stowell.