Rock, Johanna O. Mrs. Arnold 1914-2002

ROCK, VANDERAARDE, TEPASKE

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - Volunteer (email)
Date: 3/6/2010 at 08:37:00

JOHANNA O. ROCK
ORANGE CITY, Iowa - Johanna D. Rock, 87, of Orange City died Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at Heritage House Nursing Home in Orange City.
Services will be 2 p.m. Friday at Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City, with the Rev. Harlan Van Oort officiating. Burial will be in West Lawn Cemetery.
Johanna Dorothy was born Dec. 3, 1914, in Orange City, the daughter of Herman and Elizabeth (Vander Aarde) Te Paske. She grew up in Sioux County and did her undergraduate work at Northwestern College. She went on to receive her bachelor degree in English and social science at Morningside College in Sioux City. She has done graduate work in communications at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., New Mexico State Teachers College in Silver City, and American University in Washington D.C. After some preliminary activities in Iowa and New Mexico as a high school teacher, an executive assistant to a superintendent of schools, plus part-time work in a lawyer’s office, a city clerk’s office, as a librarian, and a taxi driver, she joined the Foreign Service of the State Department and lived at the Hague, Netherlands for four years. Here she worked in the United States Information Agency and with the press secretary of the American Embassy. On her return to this country, Ms. Rock joined the public information staff of the American National Red Cross in Washington D.C. Turning her sights on the business world, she became an Avon District manager in Virginia, recruiting, training and supervising a field staff of 200 sales representatives. After moving to New York, some short-term ventures included. personnel work in an employment agency, retail sales at Saks Fifth Ave, and fact-finding research and investigating for IBM. She then secured a position in the research department of Cunningham and Walsh, working on advertising effectiveness research. She later joined the research department of J. Walter Thompson as manager of special analyses of advertising effectiveness. Eventually, she established her own free-lance service. She had written a number of articles for advertising trade publications.
Her outside interests at various times have included, mystery stories, cats, traveling to such places as Africa, Siberia, Machu Picchu and the Galapagos Islands, sewing, singing tenor in the Collegiate Chorale, and being a volunteer reader for Recording for the Blind.
In 1945, she married Arnold Rock.
In 2000, she returned to Orange City and became a resident of the Landsmeer Ridge Retirement Community. In the fall of 2001, she transferred to the Heritage House.
She was a lifetime member of the American Reformed Church in Orange City.
Survivors include her nephews and nieces, Bruce Te Paske of Birmingham, Mich., Joan and her husband, the Rev. Edward Mark, of Cambridge, Mass., Jerry Te Paske and his wife, Sue, of Washington D.C., John Te Paske and his wife, Christine, of Orange City, Jean Te Paske and her husband, Douglas Bell, of Cambridge, James Bolluyt and his wife, Karen, of Ames, Iowa. David Bolluyt and his wife, Linda, of Adel, Iowa, and Jan Bolluyt and his wife, Linda, of Spirit Lake, Iowa; and many grand-nieces and grand-nephews.
In addition to her parents; she was also preceded in death by two brothers, Henry and Bernard Te Paske; a sister, Agatha Bolluyt; and two nieces, Elizabeth Madigan and Linda Lewis.
Source: Sioux City Journal after 4-9-2002