Rossotti, Aleta Maxine Rusk (1915-2004)

ROSSOTTI, RUSK, KRANZ, CHAMPLIN

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 2/12/2023 at 12:43:54

Daily Freeman Journal
Webster City, Iowa
Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Aleta Maxine (Rusk) Rossotti, 89, Atwater, Calif., died Saturday, June 12, 2004 at Mercy Medical Center in Merced, Calif. Funeral services were held Friday, June 18, 2004 at Atwater Baptist Church in Atwater, Calif., with burial in the Winton District Cemetery, Winton, Calif.

She was born May 18, 1915 on a farm northeast of Belmond. The family moved to a farm south of Galt in 1917. She attended rural schools and graduated from Clarion High School in 1934. The family then moved to a farm northeast of Webster City in that same year. She married Augustine Rossotti in 1952 at Stateline, Calif. in South Lake Tahoe.

She attended Drake University in Des Moines and taught elementary school for 10 years. She then graduated from the American Institute of Business College in Des Moines. She worked for the Federal Civil Service for 31 years. She worked at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, Oakland Municipal Airport and Port of Alameda, and McClellan AFB in Sacramento, Calif. She then worked at Sharpe Army Depot, retiring in 1976.

After her retirement, she furthered her education by attending Merced College and Stanislaus State College, graduating with honors in 1987 with a degree in nursing. She worked for six years for Hindes Hospice of Merced County and several years as a school nurse at Ballico Cressey School District.

Survivors are a nephew, Daniel Rusk of Reno, Nev., a niece, Karen Kranz of Watertown, SD; sister-in-law, Dorothy Rusk of Mesa, Ariz., and a cousin, Bill Champlin of Torrance, Calif. She was preceded in death by her parents, Alice and Clarence Rusk; two brothers, Duane Rusk and Forrest Rusk, and a sister-in-law, Goldie Rusk, all of Webster City, and her husband, Augustine Rossotti.