GREENVILLE JCT.- Our precious mother Constance Perkins Trott passed away today, December 2, 2011 at the age of 98 surrounded by her loving family. She was the daughter of William and Edith (Lander) Perkins born on May 10, 1913. Gardiner,Maine.

She was educated in the Gardiner schools and went on to Farmington State Normal School. In later years she received her degree in education at University of Maine, Orono

Her first teaching job was in a one room school house in Richmond, Maine, and then on to Gardiner where she spent the next 35 years teaching the sixth, third and first grades, all of them were her favorites.

Connie was an accomplished artist and poet. Several of her poems were published..she wrote and illustrated many short stories and poems and set them to music to the delight of her young students. She was a talented musician and displayed that talent to the end. For many years Connie wrote for the Kennebec Journal under the heading "Teacher Says" a weekly, illustrated and many times funny accounts of the classroom and family happenings.

During her teaching years she passed on her love for music and organized an orchestra made up of several of her students in the sixth grade. Connie also had a great interest in rocks and minerals of the area and met with a small group of boys and her sons for mineral hunting field trips. Many of these same students fondly remember "Mrs. Trott" and what she did to make learning fun.

Connie's love of the beauty of nature and all living things have been a large part of her life and is reflected in her poems and music and very existence. Her family would laugh that she wouldn't kill a fly she would capture it and take it outdoors to live.

During her years in Rockwood you could see Connie walking with her little dog Suzi meeting up with her dear friend Kitty Munster for their morning stroll watching the ducks and loons on Moose River and collecting more for her next story or poem.

Connie was predeceased by her parents Will and Edith, her brother Roland Perkins and sister Iola Perkins.

She is survived by her daughter Mary-Jean Laskey and husband Arvid of Rockwood, A son Roger Trott of Bradford and a son John and his wife Sharon of Big Bear City, California.

She was a loving Nana to Peggy Dolan and partner Dan Brooker, Tammy Mott and partner Bob Hardy, Ted Mott and partner Nicole Smith, Hollie Collins and husband Keith, Jacob Trott and partner Jennifer Rocholl and Edie Trott. She has 8 great grandchildren who loved her very much Merrily Fales and partner Brandon Croan, Christopher Fales, Daniel Trott and wife Renee, Shera Thibodeau and partner Brandon Mitchell, Brittney Dewey, Mason Mott, Morgan Mott and Asher Rocholl Trott. She has 4 great great grandchildren Cameron Plourde of Charleston, Destiny and Callie Trott of Hudson and Adrian Mitchell of Brewer. She was called "Nanny the Great"

Request

When I am done, please scatter me in some wild place 'neath a lonely tree There let my happy ashes lie,under leaf and root and dappled sky. Here dance the breezes soft and free: here sun peeps through and visits me. Where moth and butterfly shall step, please lay me there my soul to rest. There I shall not miss the world so much as seasons pass and stir my dust Maybe some newborn vine shall feed; on what once was the living me. No better thing could my ashes do; than give to something LIFE anew! So let me rest in quiet deep; my soul to dream my dreams to keep....by mjd Private services will be held on May 10, 2012

Donations in her name can be made to the Kennebec Valley Humane Society Augusta, Maine 04330