FARMINGTON – Violet H. O’Shea, 90, died Monday, Sept. 12, at the Sandy River Center for Health Care, Farmington, where she has resided the past several years. She was formerly of Roxbury Notch for many years, then she and her husband lived at Red Mountain Estates in Deming, N.M., from 1977 to 1995, when she moved back to Andover to live with her daughter, Maureen.

She was born in Chelsea, Mass., June 20, 1915, a daughter of Esau and Mirah (Hopkins) Parsons and had attended schools in Chelsea, Mass.

She was a former member of the Rumford Falls Aerie 1248, F.O.E. Auxiliary.

She had owned and operated the Notch Trading Post in Roxbury for many years, with her husband, until their retirement in 1977, when they moved to New Mexico. Violet was married in York on July 19, 1935 to James P. “Red” O’Shea, who died in Deming, N.M., on Oct. 28, 1989.

Survivors include three daughters, Maureen Adams and husband, Ronald of Andover, Dolly Gasior and husband, Stanley, of Middletown, Conn., and Betty Bowman of Milford, Mass.; a son, James P. O’Shea Jr. and wife, Nancy, of Danvers, Mass.; many grandchildren; and great-grandchildren; three great-great-granddaughters; and a sister, Elsie Palladino of Chelsea, Mass.

She was predeceased by a daughter, Patricia White, a granddaughter, Laura Bowman; a great-grandson, Mark Walsh; three brothers, George, Elmer and Harold Parsons; two sons-in-law, Al Bowman and Daniel White Sr.; and a brother-in-law, Joseph Palladino.