SOUTH PARIS – Marion Bernice (Bean) Brown, 88, of Norway, died Saturday, April 30, at the Market Square Health and Rehabilitation Center.

She was born on Aug. 25, 1916, in Lewiston, the daughter of William and Edith Hoff Bean. Marion graduated from Oxford High School in 1932 and from Boston College Clerical School in 1935.

On June 11, 1938, she married Oneil A. Brown to whom she was married until his death on May 20, 1992.

Residing in Norway, she worked at B.E. Cole Shoe Factory as a bookkeeper, at the Advertiser Democrat in a number of capacities including a proofreader, and with her husband in their shoe repair business.

She is survived by her son, Neil W. Brown and his wife, Marjorie Howe, of Norway; grandsons, Gregory Brown of Londonderry, N.H., O. Wesley Brown and his wife, Michelle, of Norway, and Adam C. Brown of Norway; granddaughter, Kimberly and her husband, Eric Bell, of Oxford; a sister, Ruth of California; a brother-in-law, Robert Vezina of Oxford; a special sister-in-law, Geneva Brown of Norway; and many nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husband, she was predeceased by a grandson, Austin Oneil Millett.

She will be remembered as one who always found the positive in people and a light in all of our lives.