Margaret Helen Rose 1917-2003

ROSE, IMEL, HUTCHENS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/24/2008 at 23:53:25

Sioux City Journal
1 April 2003

MAPLETON, Iowa -- M. Helen Rose, 86, of Mapleton died Saturday, March 28, 2003, at Maple Heights Nursing Home in Mapleton.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Armstrong Funeral Home in Mapleton, with the Rev. Fred Pilecki officiating. Burial will be in St. Clair Cemetery, Ute, Iowa. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 7 p.m., at the funeral home.

Margaret Helen Rose was born Feb. 26, 1917, in Flasher, N.D., the daughter of Charles and Grace (Imel) Hutchens. She graduated from Flasher High School. She then moved with her family to Astoria, Ore., where she worked until she met Ivarel Rose at a U.S.O. dance.

She married Ivarel in Dayton, Ohio, on Dec. 24, 1942, following his discharge from the U.S. Coast Guard.

She gave many years of service to the Girl Scouts as a troop leader and camp counselor. She also gave many years of service to Belmont United Methodist Church as a Sunday school teacher, nursery director and Belmont Elementary School PTA. After she raised her two daughters, she worked for Rike's Department Store, where she specialized in fitting prosthetics and garments for breast cancer survivors.

She enjoyed gardening, growing roses, sewing and the many trips around the United States with her husband. They visited all but two states in their travels. The couple relocated to Mapleton in 1979, to be near Ivarel's mother. Ivarel died Aug. 2, 1999.

She was a member of St. John's United Methodist Church in Mapleton.

She is survived by two daughters, Aldine and her husband, Bill Ahl of Wylie, Texas, and Alice Rose of Boston, Mass., and Kennebunkport, Maine; two grandsons, Michael Ahl of Dallas, Texas, and David Ahl and his wife, Eulalia and their two daughters, Lauryn and Leslie, all of Rockwall, Texas.

Along with her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers, two sisters, and several nieces and nephews.

Donations in her memory may be made to Maple Heights Nursing Home in support of its staff for their loving care, or to the Siouxland Regional Cancer Center