Philomena Maria Anderson, 91, of Portland, Maine, died Oct. 20 in Maine Medical Center in Portland.

Anderson retired as a distribution assistant in the mailroom of the Portland Press Herald.

She leaves a daughter, Helene; two sons, Daniel and Leonard; four grandchildren; three sisters.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondents Ashleane Alabre, Sophie Cannon, Jenna Ciccotelli, Nico Hall, Joshua Leaston, Georgeanne Oliver, Julia Preszler and Thomas Ward, undergraduate students at Northeastern University.