MALO, Rosalie Kay (Pitzen) 1948-2005

PITZEN, MALO, REDING

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/18/2010 at 17:43:59

Rosalie Kay (Pitzen) Malo, 1948-2005

Brookings, South Dakota -- Memorial services for Rosalie K. Malo, age 56, of Brookings, S.D., were held at the Ascension Lutheran Church in Brookings on Monday, October 17, 2005.

Rosalie died Sunday, October 9, 2005, at Brookview Manor in Brookings.

Rosalie Kay (Pitzen) Malo was born December 5, 1948, at Osage, Iowa, to Alfred Nicholas and Mary Anna (Reding) Pitzen. She grew up on the family dairy farm, and was active in 4-H. She was chosen as Mitchell County Dairy Princess. In 1967 she graduated from Marian High School in Stacyville, Iowa, and received a B.S. degree in textiles and clothing from Iowa State University in 1971.

On December 26, 1970, she married Douglas D. Malo in Stacyville, Iowa. Rosie was the head secretary for the Horticulture Department at North Dakota State University from 1971 until 1975. The Malos moved to Brookings in 1975, where Rosie operated a daycare center until 2004. She cared for four to eight children each day, over 50 kids, fulltime, in 30 years.

Rosie was an active member of Ascension Lutheran Church. Her activities included the Mission Action Program, ALCW treasurer, quilting group, Sunday School teacher, banner-making, ALCW circle, and chair of the Church and Community Board. She organized the construction, finishing, and information for the new Chrismon tree ornaments. She served as a 4-H leader, and Odyssey of the Mind coach and city program coordinator.

She worked in several service projects in Pine Ridge, at an orphanage in South Korea for three months, and in Haiti with the solar oven project. She had taken three trips to Bolivia to help with the development of a small university to help the rural poor.

She was preceded in death by her father, a brother James Pitzen, and a sister-in-law, Jane (Gene) Pitzen.

Survivors include her husband, Douglas Malo, of Brookings; two children, Robert J. (Marin) Malo, of Bozeman, Mont., and Denise M. (Mark) Miller of Rapid City, South Dakota; a grandson Ethan Malo of Bozeman, Mont.; her mother, Mary Pitzen, of Stacyville, Iowa; five siblings, Gene Pitzen of Stacyville, Iowa, Mary Jane (Jim) Mauer of Lisle, Illinois, Betty Ann (Marly) Stoltenberg of Mason City, Iowa, Carol (Vaughn) Rossum of Osage, Iowa, and Ronnie (Becky) Pitzen of Stacyville, Iowa; and a sister-in-law, Vernie (James) Pitzen of Austin, Minnesota.

[ Original version posted on www.mcpress.com Oct. 19, 2005 ]