Florence Mabel Brewer

She was born in Lisbon, Maine, on September 6, 1928, the 12th and last child of the late Harry and Elizabeth (Hoyle) Carville. She attended local schools graduating from Lisbon High School in 1946.

On September 4, 1948, Florence married the love of her life Emerson Brewer and they were happily married for 67 years until his death in 2016. Together they raised their three daughters in Lisbon Falls.

She worked at Bonafide Mill in Lisbon as a secretary before having children and, after the girls were all in school, was a secretary for the Superintendent of School Union 30 for 35 years until she retired in 2000 at the age of 72. She was a member of the United Methodist Church and a lifetime member of Pioneer Chapter Order of the Eastern Star in Lisbon Falls. She also took an active role in the Rainbow girls in support of her daughters. She volunteered at the LACO food pantry.

Florence loved baking for her family and local functions and keeping an immaculate home. She loved walking daily with her church friends and neighbors.

Florence was a loving mother and is survived by her three daughters: Cathy Liguori and spouse Harvey Toews of Auburn, Janis Moore and husband Maurice (Moe) of Lisbon and Debra Madden and partner Scott Walker of Saco; she was known as “Nana” to her 9 grandchildren: Katrina (Liguori) Rumpf, Robert Liguori, Kristina (Liguori) Pontbriand, Ryan Moore, Gregory Moore, Thomas Madden, Scott Madden, Christopher Madden and Lisabeth Madden; 6 great-grandchildren: Sean and Sarah Moore, Royer and August Pontbriand, Sophie Madden, Owen Moore and step-great-grandson Brennan Rumpf; sister: Edna Foote of Lewiston; sister-in-law: Gladys Carville of Lisbon, several cousins, nieces and nephews.

Besides her parents, she was predeceased by her husband: Emerson Brewer, five brothers: Willard, Linwood, Clarence, Lester and Albert Carville, five sisters: Gertrude Pillsbury, Eva Pillsbury, Ruth Berry, Geneva Hartford and Dorothy Walker.

Her daughters would like to thank the staff at Bay Square of Yarmouth and the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House for their excellent and loving care of Florence. They all proclaimed she was ‘so sweet’.

Memorial services will be held at 11:00 on Friday, August 26, 2022 at United Methodist Church, 14 School St, Lisbon Falls, Maine.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Florence’s memory to: Lisbon Area Christian Outreach (LACO), 14 School St, Lisbon Falls, ME. 04252, a food pantry.