YARMOUTH – Arlene C. Bean, 77, of West Elm St., died Saturday Oct. 16, 2004, at Maine Medical Center in Portland after a courageous battle with a brain tumor. She was born May 31, 1927, in Milbridge, a daughter of John A. and Rena Beal Chipman. She was raised in Milbridge and was a 1945 graduate of Milbridge High School. She graduated from Beals Business College in Bangor in 1947. She moved to and worked in Portland where she met her husband, Joseph Bean and they were married in Milbridge on Sept. 4, 1948. While living in Portland she was a member of the Chestnut Street Methodist Church. Moving to Lisbon Falls in 1960, she was a Den Mother for Cub Scouts and a member of the Lisbon United Methodist Church. Moving to Yarmouth in 1963, and was a member of the Mocaga Club. She loved gardening and feeding the birds. Also, traveling with her husband and special friends, Irma and Fred Baker, Holly and Dick Corson and Nancy and Junior Mowatt. In 2002, she traveled with her husband and the Mowatt’s to her grandmother’s birthplace of Gaspe, Quebec, something she had always wanted to do. She is survived by her husband, Joseph Bean of Yarmouth; her daughter, Nancy Sears and her companion, Mark Daley, of Yarmouth; sons, John and his wife, Laurie, of Yarmouth; Joseph and his wife, Rhonda, of Durham, and Jeff and his wife, Genny, of Wales; grandchildren, Rick Sears of Orlando, Fla., Jason Bean of Randolph, Mass., Josh Bean and his companion, Stacy, and children, Tyler and Ryan, of Sebago, John and his wife, Tonya, of Raymond, Rob Bean of New Gloucester, Tyler Bean of Yarmouth, Sarah Bean of Yarmouth, Kalie Sears of Lisbon Falls, Lisa Salger and children, Dylan and Hayley, of Sabattus, and Tammy Legendre and her husband, Dana and children, Danielle, Jacob and Kaylea, of Milan, N.H.; two sisters, Eva Tracy of Milbridge, and Marjorie Etter of North Yarmouth; one brother, Phillip Chipman of Milbridge; two special nieces, Sandra Pond of East Taunton, Mass., and Rose Arsenault of North Yarmouth. She was predeceased by an infant son, James in 1958; three brothers, Thurman, Bill and Milton Chipman. Visiting hours will be held 1-3 p.m. with a memorial service at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22, at Lindquist Funeral Home, 1 Mayberry Lane, Yarmouth. Interment will be at Pleasant View Cemetery, Shiloh Rd., Durham. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in her memory to Maine Cancer Society, 52 Federal St., Brunswick, ME 04011.
ARLENE C. BEAN
