Lifelong Harpswell Neck fisherman remembered as cribbage competitor, neighborhood mentor
Sheldon Morse Sr. died Dec. 5, two weeks shy of his 86th birthday. He lived his whole life on the land where he grew up on Allen Point Road, fishing into his late 70s on a boat he built with his father and named after his daughter. Family and fishing were the focal points of his life. Sheldon grew up around his father’s boat shop, but he wanted to be out on the water. He started with a few traps and a skiff as a teenager. He was fishing that same way near the end of his life, when he couldn’t operate his lobster boat anymore. His grandson, Josh Morse, is also a fisherman and lives with his family down the road from his grandfather’s house. The two of them built the skiff that Joshua first fished from, and Sheldon’s Teresa Ann was the first boat that Josh worked on. Sheldon’s youngest granddaughter, Lauren Webster, remembers her grandparents’ house as a place where she and her cousins could be kids, with as many Popsicles and grilled cheese sandwiches as they could eat. photos, more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 09:03
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