SOUTH PARIS – Claralyn Owen Preble Trask, 85, died on Feb. 28, in South Paris.

She was born on Sept. 2, 1919 in Lowell, to Walter Preble and Viola (White) Preble. After graduating from Oldtown High School, she graduated from the University of Maine at Orono where she met her husband, Harry.

When he left for the Pacific Theater to be a navigator on a B-29, she was pregnant. When he returned, Rebecca was 15-months-old. Less than a year after Harry’s return from the war, Timothy was born, and then a year and a half later came Joanna. They moved to Kansas City, Missouri where Harry studied at Nazarene Theological Seminary. Following that phase of his education, he took his first church in Union, where their youngest son, Jason was born. While they were in Union and in the four churches that followed (Haverhill, Mass., Dixfield, Yarmouth, and Lincoln), she was always beside her husband supporting him in his work. In addition to her duties as a minister’s wife, she taught in Union and in Dixfield.

She will be remembered for her friendliness, outspokenness, and her sometimes irreverent sense of humor. She leaves behind her husband, Harry Trask, of South Paris; and her four children, Rebecca Gagne of Randolph, Mass., Timothy Trask of Brockton, Mass., Joanna Clark of Ellsworth, and Jason Trask of Norway; 11 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

She was predeceased by her older sister, Helen Mace. She will be deeply missed.