Rose L. Stutzman

A Funeral Service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 22, 2014, at East Fairview Mennonite Church with Pastors Bill Saltzman and Kyle Roth officiating. Visitation is Friday, 1:00-8:00 p.m. at Lauber-Moore Funeral Home, Milford, and one hour prior to services at church. The family will greet relatives and friends, 7-8:00 p.m at the funeral home. Memorials may be directed in care of the family. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be nephews: Mike, Willis, Ivan and Bob Stutzman, Andrew Hughes and Vern Kratochvil. Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of Lauber-Moore Funeral Home, Milford.

Rose Louise Stutzman was born at home on the family farm near Milford, Nebraska on August 19, 1929, the second child born to Manno and Maggie (Erb) Stutzman, and passed away on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, at Crestview Care Center in Milford at the age of 84 years.As a young girl, she attended the Rosedale School located a half-mile from her family farm. Rose was a nurse's aide at Seward Memorial Hospital for more than 30 years. She also was employed by Crestview Nursing Home and Lincoln General Hospital (now BryanLGH West Medical Center).Rose was a life-long member of East Fairview Mennonite Church and enjoyed helping with the meat canning projects, cutting squares for quilts and preparing care bags for shipments overseas. Rose was quite the traveler, and enjoyed accompanying her sister, Elda, to places worldwide such as Europe, South America, Israel, Australia and Canada to name a few. She had a numerous collection of pitchers and always had her home open for family get-togethers. Rose also loved to play board games and enjoyed attending family reunions. Rose is survived by her sister-in-law, Connie Stutzman, Milford; brother-in-law, Cecil Shettler, Wellman, IA; nieces, nephews and a host of other relatives and friends.Rose was preceded in death by her parents, seven brothers, Clarence, Walter, Clayton, Roy, Art, Percy, Morris and Stutzman, two sisters, Mabel Beckler and Elda Shettler.