Anna Brooks Grant

ANNA BROOKS GRANT, ELIOT – Anna Brooks Grant, 98, passed away after happily spending the last 14 months at Varney Crossing in North Berwick. She loved her room, the caregivers, the food, and especially her view.
Anna was born at home in Kittery Point on July 28, 1919, one of four children of Phillip and Bertha(Nutter) Brooks.
After graduating from R W Traip Academy in 1938, she worked for the Frisbee family in Kittery Point as a housekeeper, in the laundry at Wentworth by the Sea, and at Molly Button, before marrying Roger Grant of Island Falls, ME, in 1942. After WWII they lived in Kittery Point, York, and Kittery before their final move to Eliot in 1961. Anna then began working for the Department of Health and Human Services lovingly caring for newborns until they were adopted.
Anna and Roger built camps in Smyrna Mills, ME, and spent all their vacation time there. At home and at camp there were lively card games and lots of joking with family and friends, always ending with Anna’s delicious pies and desserts. Her homemade donuts were sought after. You felt very special if she gifted you a bag of her donuts. In her 90’s Anna loved feeding and watching birds and the view out her window.
She was predeceased by her parents, her husband in 1999, two brothers, Raymond and George, her sister, Beatrice, and two sons-in-law, James Costello and Robert Mayo.
Anna is survived by three daughters, Patricia (Wesley) Kennedy of South Berwick, Christine Costello of Lebanon and Janis (Donald) Scheithe of Tucson, AZ, and Howell, Ml; five adored grandchildren, Wendy (William) Ralph, Rachael Costello, Shannon Costello Pizzimenti, lan (Alexandra) Grace, Jennifer (Emest) Marchi; step-granddaughter, Heidi Mayo (Michael) Butler; great-grandchildren, Catharine, Elizabeth, and Margaret Ralph, Micah Costello, Paul and Mairyn Pizzimenti, Michelle, Devante, Maxwell, and Akeelah Grace, and Joseph(Alyssa), Tyler, Tess, and Tanner Marchi.
In accord with Anna’s wishes there will be only a short graveside service for family at 11:00 a.m. on April 26th, 2018, at Brooks Memorial Cemetery, on State Road in Eliot. Should one desire, Anna’s favorite charities are Waban, Sweetzer, and the Salavation Army. Online condolences may be made by visiting www.jspelkeyfuneralhome.com. Care for the Grant family has been entrusted to the JS Pelkey Funeral Home.