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Rose Marie (Rosie) Gortsema, 77, of Grangeville, passed away Monday, July 13, 2009, at the Grange-ville Health and Rehabilitation Center.
Rosie was born May 23, 1932, at Grangeville, a daughter of Richard and Zelma Jess Seay. She attended Grangeville schools, graduating from Grangeville High School in 1950.
She married Wilbur M. Gortsema on June 1, 1950, at Grangeville. She worked for Sam and Muriel Lindsey as a housekeeper before going to work at Lindsley's Furniture as an interior decorator. Mr. Gortsema passed away in 1974 from a logging accident. She ran Mac's Bar and Restaurant in White Bird in the 1980s and then returned to interior decorating and retired in the mid-1990s.
She was a member of the Grangeville Elks Lodge.
She liked to fish on the South Fork of the Clearwater River and Mill Creek. She also enjoyed gardening, especially raising flowers.
She is survived by her children, Rod and wife Teena Gortsema of Orofino, Connie Carlin of Arlington, Wash., Monty (Butch) and wife Dawn of Proctor, Minn., and Debbie Armstrong of Arlington; one brother, Dick and Juanita Seay and their children of Grangeville; grandchildren Alicia and Guy Ellibee of Clarkston, Brian Gortsema and Christi Gortsema, both of Grangeville, Cory Carlin of Trinidad, Colo., Mathew Armstrong of Everett, Wash., Trisha Gortsema and Josh Gortsema, both of Chardon, Neb., and Shauna Gortsema of Crawford, Neb.; seven great-grandchildren; four stepgrandchildren; and two stepgreat-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Wilbur; and one sister, Pat Brown. |
1932 - 2009 (77 jaar)
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