Brunswick- Rosalie Lachance Deschenes, 94, died peacefully on October 8, 2025, in Bath, Maine.
She was born in Brunswick Maine on September 21, 1936, the daughter of the late Geoffrey and Matilda (Fournier) Lachance. Rosalie graduated from Brunswick High School in the class of 1949 and was employed in the offices of Coleman Research Farms Chicken Hatchery; SnowFlake Frozen Foods, a division of H.C. Baxter Company, and retired after more than twenty-nine years at Bowdoin Colleges Hawthorne-Longfellow Library.
On September 20, 1958, she married Roland Deschenes. He passed in 2009.
After surviving cancer at age 50, Rosalie was thankful for and appreciated every day of life granted to her.
Rosalie was predeceased by three brothers, Geoffrey, Wilfred and Donald Lachance; three sisters, Aurelie Lachance, Irene Noble, and Iona Osnoe. She is survived by nieces and nephews whom she dearly loved.
Visiting hours celebrating Rosalie's life will be held on Thursday, October 16. 2025 from 10:00am to 12:00pm at Stetson's Funeral Home, 12 Federal Street, Brunswick, ME. A funeral will follow at the funeral home at 12:00pm with burial in Growstown Cemetery, Brunswick, ME. Condolences, memories and photos may be shared with the family on the obituary page of the Stetson's Funeral Home website www.StetsonsFuneralHome.com