WEST GARDINER – Maureen Alice Prescott (née Pike), born March 24, 1938, in Pittsfield, N.H., known to us all as “Mo”, left us shortly after sunrise on Dec. 22, 2022
Mo touched many lives with her good cheer and her creativity. She excelled in making special wedding cakes, teddy bears with custom clothes, warm fleece blankets, and bespoke Halloween costumes for her granddaughters. Like her mother Emily before her, she loved to garden, and she also loved her beagles.
After graduating from Concord High School in 1956, she worked in Concord, N.H., at Sprague Electric. She and Ralph Allen Prescott married in 1958 in Chichester, N.H. Ralph served in the Navy as a flight engineer on sub-hunters, and their first duty station together was in Hawaii, followed by Brunswick, then Patuxent River in Maryland, and finally back to Brunswick in 1976, where Ralph retired. The family then moved to Vermont where Ralph had taken a flying job, but Mo and Ralph had fallen in love with a plot of land on the Cobbosseecontee Stream in West Gardiner, and that is where they made their home in time.
Mo was a devoted wife and mother. Ralph was frequently deployed when he was in the Navy, leaving the home in Mo’s capable hands while he was away. Mo served as a Cub Scout den mother when their boys were young, and after the family moved to Vermont, she worked at the iconic Wheeler’s Pharmacy in Springfield as a clerk. The family was deeply involved in aviation, and over the years, she provided sound, common-sense mentoring to many young pilots at the beginning of their careers.
Mo is survived by her son Jody, daughter-in-law Brenda-Lee, and granddaughters, Eliza and Hannah; her son Scot; and her sisters, Gloria and Darlene, her brothers, Francis, Ronald and Gordon, and their families.
As Mo wished, there will be no services.
Arrangements are in the care of Roberts Funeral Home in Winthrop, and memories and photos may be shared with the family at http://www.khrfuneralhomes.com.
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