FREEPORT — Audrey L. Wilson, 96 passed away Monday, October 15, 2012 at Midcoast Hospital after a brief illness. She was born on January 1, 1916 in Freeport Maine, the daughter of Fred M. Parker and Blanche E. Grant.

In 1953 she married Lee A. Wilson and resided in Topsham where she lived until 2010. She then made her home in Freeport with her daughter Faye and her husband until her passing.

At an early age, Audrey learned to pick crabmeat and worked at Day’s Crabmeat in Yarmouth where she met Steven Day who later became her son-in-law. Audrey loved bird watching and fed them every day.

Audrey was predeceased by her husband Lee A. Wilson; two children, Paul M. Basinet and Eilene L. McKenney; two grandchildren, Paul L. Craig and Buddy A. Basinet; and two great grandchildren, Ryan Basinet and Cory McKenney. She was also predeceased by her sister Marjorie Bickford.

Surviving are her daughters Marjorie Craig and her husband Leslie of Brunswick, Faye Day and her husband Steven of Freeport and Caroline Vining and her husband Charles of Yarmouth, and a son Roger Basinet and his wife Glenda of Jacksonville Florida; several grand children, great grandchildren and great, great grand children.

Visitation will be from 10 to 11a.m. Saturday at the Brackett Funeral Home, 29 Federal Street, Brunswick, where a funeral service will follow at 11a.m. with Rev. Ron McLaughlin officiating. Burial will be at Grove Cemetery, in Freeport. Condolences can be expressed at www.brackettfuneralhome.com.