Mary C. Keniston (March 11, 1921 – March 11, 2012) Mary C. Rice Keniston, beloved mother, grandmother and lifelong Bethel resident, joined the Lord in Heaven March 11, 2012 at home on her 91st birthday. Mary was born to Millard and Frances Clough in 1921 and raised in Bethel, Maine. She attended Bethel schools and graduated from Gould Academy and Auburn Maine School of Commerce. She worked for L.E. Davis Lumber Co. and later Casco Bank & Trust as an Administrative Assistant for 20 years before retiring. Mary received the Henry H. Hastings Award in 1989 by the Bethel Chamber of Commerce. This award is given to a person that has sustained wide interest in serving the community. Mary was an active member of both the First Parish Congregational Church in Bethel and the Albany Church, Bethel Historical Society where she volunteered a lot of her time, Gould Academy Alumni Association and the Songo Pond Cemetery Association. Mary’s greatest joy was her family. She married Rufus E. Rice in 1941 and raised 4 children. Her times of greatest enjoyment were spent with her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. When she married Earlon “Lefty” Keniston in 1973, she welcomed his daughter and family as her own. She was an excellent cook and her family can attest to her delicious spaghetti and meatballs every Christmas and nothing beat Nannie’s mincemeat and strawberry-rhubarb pies! She loved to watch sports and cheered the Patriots along with her family and friends. She was also quite savvy on the computer and kept in touch with family in CT, RI and ME. She took great pride in being a life-long resident of Bethel and enjoyed being a part of the community. She was known by most and if you were out and about with her in town, she would stop and talk to almost everyone she met! Lastly, Mary loved her little home on Vernon Street and with great thanks to her caregivers, Jeanine Buck and Cheryl Burnham, Mary was able to remain in her beloved home until her passing. Mary is survived by her son Douglas and his wife Sandra of Guilford, Connecticut, her daughter Donna Rice-Howe and her son Donald Rice, both of Waterford and stepdaughter Llona (Keniston) and her husband Carl Meaux of Fla. Nannie will be greatly missed by her 9 grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. Mary was predeceased by Rufus Rice, her first husband, in 1969, Earlon Keniston, her second husband, in 2006 and her youngest daughter Sally Rice Twitchell in 1988, her sisters Maxine Brown and Ida Bryant and her brother Fillmore “Bud” Clough.