GARROTTO, Lodovina "Lody" (ROLLA)

ROLLA, CAUDA, LARSON, GARROTTO, MCGLINCH, FRANKL

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/30/2018 at 21:54:04

Obituary ~ Lodovina "Lody" (Rolla) Garrotto
September 23, 1907 ~ May 18, 1996

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
May 20, 1996

MASON CITY -- Lodovina "Lody" Garrotto, 88, of 1000 First St. N.W., died Saturday (May 18, 1996) at the I.O.O.F. Home.

A funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Holy Family Catholic Church, 714 North Adams Ave. Burial will be in Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Hogan-Bremer Colonial Chapel, 126 Third St. N.E., with a Catholic Daughters of the Americas rosary beginning at 4 p.m. and a scriptural prayer service beginning at 7 p.m.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of North Iowa or to Holy Family Catholic Church in memory of Lodovina Garrotto.

Lodovina Garrotto was born Sept. 23, 1907, in Albiano D'Ivrea, province of Torino, northern Italy, daughter of Louis and Clara (Cauda) Rolla. She came to the United States in November, 1913, with her paternal grandmother and aunt to join her parents in Omaha, Neb.

Lody graduated from Omaha Technical High School, Boyles College and studied law. She was employed by the law firm of Wear, Moriarity, Garrotto and Boland in Omaha as a law clerk for several years.

She studied voice under the direction of Professors Flora and Fred Ellis, and was presented in several concerts.

Lodovina moved to Mason City in 1943. She worked for the law firm of Edward and George Dunn. Later she went to work for attorney and police judge Bernard Dunn. In 1951, she was assigned to the contact office of the Veterans Administration in Mason City. When that office closed, she was assigned as secretary for the Federal Aviation Agency at the Mason City Airport. When that position was abolished, she refused a transfer to Minneapolis or Omaha. She then went to work at Mercy Hospital as a medical records librarian until she was forced to retire under the Mandatory Retirement Act at age 65. After leaving Mercy Hospital, she went to work for Dr. Merwyn E. Larson, where she worked until age 79 when she had to retire due to a back injury.

She was a charter board member and was the first treasurer of the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Credit Union and she was a board member and secretary for the North Central Iowa Credit Union League for five years. She was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church, the Holy Family Choir and Funeral Choir, a member of St. Theresa's Circle, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, the Joyce Kilmer Study Club and RSVP, and was a member and past president of North Iowa Mercy Health Center Hospital Auxiliary.

She is survived by one son, Dr. Lewis J. Garrotto, and his wife, Peggy, of Columbia, Mo.; two daughters, Clarice M. McGlinch and her husband, Joseph R. McGlinch, of Rochester, Minn., and Sandra L. Frankl and her husband, Dr. Patrick Frankl, of Philipsberg, Mont.; 15 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2018