Mary Aaffe (Swieter) Rosener 1885-1910

ROSENER, SWIETER

Posted By: Joe Conroy (email)
Date: 6/13/2010 at 16:27:08

The Carroll Times
Carroll, Iowa
15 Dec 1910
Page 14

Gone to Her Reward

It is with regret this week that we chronicle the death of Mrs. John Rosener which occurred at her home southwest of town last Friday morning, December 9. She had given birth to a child on November 27th, and a week later she was taken with an attack of pneumonia and she passed quietly away last Friday to the great beyond where suffering and worry are not heeded.

Miss Mary Aaffe Swieter was born at Manslagt Ostfriesland, Germany, July 4, 1885 and was therefore 25 years, 5 months and 5 days old at the time of her death. She remained with her parents in her native land till she reached the age of 17 years and she came to this country and made her home with her uncle, Roelf Swieter, west of town for a while, after which she served as domestic hereabouts. In the summer of 1902 she came to this country and in the winter of 1903 she joined the Roman Catholic church to which she proved a very faithful member and has gone home for her reward.

On June 20, 1904 she was united in marriage to John Rosener and this union was a happy one. Four children blessing their union, the oldest 5 years and the youngest about three weeks, who do not understand the loss of the kind and loving mother who has left them and who with their papa are left to mourn the loss of mother and wife.

She seemed to be in perfect health until a few years ago when she submitted to an operation and was not heard to be seriously ill till two weeks ago she was taken with pneumonia, which followed after the birth of her child after which she was thought to be recovering until pneumonia had set in. The news of her death was indeed a sad one, leaving 4 motherless children to make their way through this world without the aid of a kind mother's care, and the husband who is bereft of his loving helpmate, she having fulfilled her duties as a dutiful wife which she undertook at the altar just some over six short years. She was well prepared to meet her Redeemer, having received the last Sacraments of the Catholic church before she passed away to the eternal home.

Besides the husband and motherless children she leaves her mother, two brothers and two sisters in Germany, also one sister in Illinois to mourn her untimely death.

The funeral was held from the Catholic church Monday morning after a solemn requiem mass and the remains laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery. It is indeed a sad blow to the husband and motherless children in the loss of a wife and mother and the many friends of the grief-stricken husband sympathize with him in his hour of sorrow. Peace to her ashes.