Olga Rose (Loeffler) ROGALLA

ROGALLA, LOEFFLER, GROH, CORBIN, JENISON, JOHNSON, EVANS, TROTTER, HILLSMAN, ZEIGER, THOMPSON, SCHNACK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/29/2008 at 12:25:40

Mason City Globe Gazette
February 26, 2000

BELMOND - Funeral services for Olga Rose Rogalla, 79, of Belmond, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. John Lutheran Church in Belmond, with Pastor Lowell Halvorson officiating. Interment will be in the Belmond Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. on Sunday at the Tenold Funeral Home and one hour prior to services on Monday at the church.

Olga Rose (Loeffler) Rogalla was born to German immigrant parents, Margaret (Groh) and Fred Loeffler on Nov. 3, 1920, in Kanawha. Olga was the third child in a family of six brothers and sisters. Olga attended rural school through junior high before the family moved to Chicago, Ill. During her family's early years in Chicago, prior to her marriage, she worked in a bakery and in a hosiery factory. Olga was united in marriage to Paul Rogalla on July 8, 1939, in Chicago. The couple moved to Belmond in 1946. During her many years in the community of Belmond, Olga worked as a cook in several local restaurants. Olga also worked with Paul in the family painting and wallpapering business. The couple celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary last July. She was a member of St. John Lutheran Church, where she was active in the ELCW ladies circles. She always looked forward to preparing chicken and biscuits at the annual church bazaar. Olga's greatest love, next to her family, was gardening, with which she would spend time canning and trying new recipes. She reached out to many families in the community in their own times of grief. For this, Olga will always be remembered.

Those left to cherish memories of her include her husband, Paul, of Belmond; her children, Gloria Corbin and her husband, Charles Corbin, of Ames, Bonnie Jenison, of Ames, and Paul Rogalla and his wife, Kris, of Indianola; a daughter-in-law, Carmen Johnson and her husband, Dan Johnson, of Belmond; 10 grandchildren, Gina Evans, Allison Corbin, Tami Trotter, Charles Chad Corbin, Judson Jenison, Charles Rogalla, Chanda Rogalla, Ryan Rogalla, Donald Johnson, and Brandon Rogalla; three great-grandchildren, Naomi Hillsman, Maya Evans and Jack Evans; a brother, Karl Loeffler and his wife, Phyllis, of Inverness, Fla.; a sister, Eleanor Zeiger, of Belmond; and a sister-in-law, Iliah Loeffler, of Kanawha. She was preceded in death by her parents; her son, Charles Rogalla; a brother, Fred Loeffler; and two sisters, Helen Thompson and Mary Schnack. Tenold Funeral Home.