Mrs Edith Theresa Rockhill

Thomaston – Mrs. Edith Theresa (Scatena) Rockhill, 91, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, March 21, at Vitas Inpatient Hospice at St. Mary’s Hospital. She was the widow of Robert R. Rockhill, Sr.

Edith was born April 5, 1932, in Waterbury, daughter of the late Enrico and Vita (DiDonato) Scatena. Raised in Waterbury she attended local schools. She was a pediatric nurse for many years at Waterbury Hospital. Edith enjoyed knitting, crocheting, solving crossword puzzles and was best known for her baking, especially her “homemade cookies,” “pie dough” and “baking powder biscuits.” She loved swimming at the Torrington YMCA.

Edith helped develop the former family farm: C.W. Pleasant View Farm in which she proudly raised chickens, turkeys, milk cows (all milked by her own hands) and helped care for her daughters’ horses, Sundance, Boggs, Junior and Buster Brown.

She always put her children first.

She is survived by one son, Robert R. Rockhill, Jr and his wife Jacqueline; two daughters, Martha Mannion and her husband Christopher and Donna Masciangioli and her husband Jim; one brother, Anthony Scatena; one sister, Catherine St. Pierre; her loving grandchildren, Matthew and his fiancé Melissa, Annie and Daniel; one great-grandson, Dean; her cat, Reily and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her brothers, Rocco, Ned and his wife Rose, (whom she also considered as her sister,) her sister, Marie and her faithful dog Foxy.

The family would like to thank the staff of Vitas Hospice for the loving care given to their mother.