Rose Connell 1868-1954

CONNELL, KEYSOR, JONES, SIEMANS, LYMAN

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 9/4/2008 at 17:57:46

Brooklyn (IA) Chronicle

LAST RITES HELD FOR MRS. CONNELL

Funeral services for Mrs. Rose Connell, 86, were held last Thursday afternoon at two o'clock at the Church of the Brethren in charge of the Rev. Earl Deardorff, pastor, assisted by S.J. Epler, minister of the Madison Church of Christ. Mrs. Ed Bartachek, at the piano, accompanied Mrs. O.O. Montgomery and Mrs. Don Anthony singing two selections.

Interment was in I.O.O.F. cemetery with Fred Willet, Frank Swatosh, Henry Manatt, Gerald Manatt, Cecil Brannian and Ray Robey serving as pallbearers.

Native of Brooklyn

The daughter of George and Tamar Keysor, Rosella Gertrude Keysor was born August 17, 1868 in Poweshiek county, Brooklyn, Iowa and died Dec. 21, 1954 in a Grinnell hospital where she had been a patient for several weeks.

She was married Dec. 20, 1888 to Lloyd Connell who preceded her in death Nov. 28, 1935. Four children were born to the couple: Glen Connell and Mrs. Harvey (Ina) Jones of Brooklyn; Mrs. W.J. (Gertrude) Siemans of Seattle, Wash. and a son, Harold, who died July 8, 1922.

After graduating from Brooklyn High school she taught in public schools for a year and took part in many community debating teams. Mrs. Connell was active in the Brethren church until her illness in July.

Survivors include her three children; one sister, Mrs. George Lyman of Brooklyn; seven grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.