RoseMary Wenger

WENGER KNOBBE MOHRHAUSER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 11/8/2010 at 21:37:47

Sioux City Journal
3 May 2010

DANBURY, Iowa -- RoseMary "Rosie" Wenger, 69, of Danbury died Friday, April 30, 2010, at her home in Danbury following a brief illness.

Services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Danbury, with the Rev. Terry Roder officiating. Burial will be in Danbury Catholic Cemetery. Visitation will be after 3 p.m. today, with a 3:30 p.m. rosary led by St. Mary's Rosary Society, and a vigil wake service at 7 p.m., at the church. Visitation will resume 9 a.m. Tuesday until service time at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Armstrong Funeral Home of Danbury.

RoseMary "Rosie" Wenger was born July 30, 1940, at home in Danbury, Iowa, the daughter of Albert J. and Adeline (Knobbe) Mohrhauser. She attended St. Mary's Catholic School through the eighth grade. Due to an illness during her freshman year, she was forced to remain at home where she received her classes via an intercom system. Upon rejoining her classmates, she graduated from Danbury Public School in 1958. After high school she worked in Sioux City first for a medical supply business and later at the Sioux City Police Department.

On Aug. 26, 1961, Rosie was united in marriage to Earl Wenger at the Cathedral in Sioux City. They farmed and raised their two sons northwest of Danbury, later moving into town.

She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Danbury as well as St. Mary's Rosary Society. In 1967, she and a small group of volunteers initiated the Danbury High School Alumni Reunions which she continued to help organize every three years, the last one being held in July 2009. She was an active member of the Red Hat Society and was in the first group that became the Nuns on the Run. She was also in the first team to join and help organize the Danbury E.M.T.'s. She worked at the Solomon Insurance Agency in Danbury and later at the Omaha Casino near Onawa, Iowa. She enjoyed playing cards with her friends at the Senior Center, always personally supplying the prizes from her own possessions.

Rosie loved to shop, always searching for that bargain. As a result of her passion for high heeled shoes, she seldom came home from a day of shopping without a new pair of shoes. She found satisfaction in shopping for others too, especially Marie Albertsen. She was quite a classy lady.

Survivors left to cherish their memories of Rosie include Earl, her husband of 48 years; two sons, Tony of Danbury and Mike of Norwalk, Iowa; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; two brothers, Robert Mohrhauser and his wife, Faye of Danbury, and Thomas Mohrhauser and his wife, Donna of Mapleton, Iowa; two sisters, Mae Jean Barron and her husband, Holly of Sioux City, and Laura Danaher of Loveland, Colo.; other relatives; and a multitude of friends including a special fiend, Billie Krusen, who was also her hairdresser.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Albert and Adeline Mohrhauser; two brothers, James Mohrhauser and William Mohrhauser, who lost his life serving his country in Vietnam.