Rosa Mae Linscott

WATERVILLE / SOUTHWEST HARBOR – Rosa passed away peacefully on Aug. 29, 2025, while in hospice care at Oak Grove Care Facility in Waterville. She was 78, born Feb. 7, 1947, in Mount Desert Island Hospital to Henry and Cora (Preble) Linscott.

She grew up in Southwest Harbor, attended Pemetic Elementary and High School, where she graduated class of 1965.

As a child, Rosa was a very precocious and (to her parents dismay) loved to greet and talk with everyone she saw.

With her curly blond hair and big blue eyes, she could almost double for Shirley Temple without the dimples.

Her family was very special to her. She lived with and cared for her parents in their later years. She loved her nieces and nephews. Having no children of her own, they were important to her. Being close in age to them, she always made their times together fun.

Rosa was creative, enjoying many types and forms of crafts and art. Rosa and her father opened the Trap Shop, in Southwest Harbor. He would make lobster trap coffee tables that she would sell along with her arts and crafts. She loved greeting and meeting the people who wandered into the shop. She also dabbled in finding the genealogy of her family.

After getting her driver’s license, she found her love of travel. She often got into her car, go for a drive visiting her friends and family. Rosa and her sister, Marion would take off together, without any real destination. They traveled to Florida’s Disney World, took a Caribbean cruise, visited New Hampshire and Vermont to see the sights, took many trips to places in Canada, and all over Maine. Rosa loved to walk the trails and see the many different sights.

After her parents’ deaths, and much soul searching, she settled in Oakland with her special partner, Earl Seeley, Sr. After his death, she moved to Waterville, where she lived with her dog Muffin and later Toto. Her Fur-babies companionship was a treasure, and she loved them dearly. She moved into the Oak Grove Care Facility when she was no longer able to live on her own.

She is survived by her sister, Marion (Linscott) Stanley; nieces, nephews and spouses, Nadine (Stanley) and Timothy Goodwin, Marjorie (Stanley) and Robert Rankin, Richard and Lorraine (Strauss) Stanley, Edward and Connie (Robbins) Stanley; nine grandnieces and nephews; as well as seven great-grandnieces and nephew. She is also survived by her best friend Betty (Stanley) Wheaten.

She was predeceased by her parents; her special uncle, Harry Preble; her brother-in-law, Ralph W. Stanley; and a grandnephew, Cory Long. She was also predeceased by her older siblings Richard Lewis and Marjorie Louise Linscott, both died before Rosa was born.

A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 27 at Riverside Cemetery, Hancock, behind the elementary school in the town of Hancock.