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Ada Laura Wille Rockow
1918 - 2010
Memorial services for Ada L. (Wille) Rockow of
McMinnville will be held at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, February 4, 2010, at St. John
Lutheran Church in McMinnville. Interment will be conducted at the Evergreen
Memorial Park Mausoleum in McMinnville.
Ada died at home on January 25, 2010. She was 91.
Born in Klemme, Iowa, on September 4, 1918, she was the daughter of Cornelius
and Marie (Thieman) Wille. She married Vernard Rockow on October 15, 1939, in
Nashua, Iowa. She received a clerical degree that same year.
The couple settled in Almena, Wisconsin., where she worked for the School
District and on the family farm. They relocated to Salem in 1964, working first
for the School District, then she took a job with the State of Oregon Department
of Revenue. She retired in 1985. The couple moved to McMinnville in 1987.
Ada and Vern enjoyed traveling, and spent a great deal of time at a property
they owned in Lincoln city. She was an amazing cook and baker. When entering her
home you were greeted with the aroma of either roast beef or snicker- doodle
cookies. She made the family's Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners into her late
eighties, and after that it was still hard to keep her out of the kitchen! She
enjoyed playing bingo with her friends at the McMinnville Manor clubhouse and
was an avid Blazers fan. She was a longtime member of St. John Lutheran Church.
Survivors include a son, Jerry (Betty) Rockow of Bend; a daughter, Gloria
Carmody of Portland; granddaughters Barbara (Jeff) Rockow-Hanes of McMinnville;
Christine (Wes) Fisher of Bend and Leslie (Jon) Ryan of Prineville;
great-grandsons, Alex Fisher and Jackson Hanes; great-granddaughter, Megan
Hanes; brothers, Ray Wille, Hampton, IA; Glen Wille, Garner, IA; Darwin Wille,
Golden, Co; sisters, Ruby Blanchet, Garner, IA; Adala Bailey, Britt, IA.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Vern; a brother, Aaron Wille; a
sister, Norma Rockow, and son in-law, Dennis Carmody.
Contributions may be made to St. John Lutheran Church care of Macy & Son Funeral
directors, 135 N.E. Evans St., McMinnville, OR 97128. To leave online
condolences, visit www.macyandson.com.
source: News-Register (McMinnville, OR), 3 Feb 2010
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Ada Laura Wille Rockow: born 4 Sep 1918 - died
25 Jan 2010 McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon
Grave marker at Evergreen Memorial Park,
McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon
Daughter of Cornelius Jansen Wille, born 1889
- died 1947 and Marie L. Thiemann, born 1891 - died 1969
Wife of Vernard H. Rockow, born 1915 - died
2007
Sister of:
Norma Marie Wille Rockow (1914 - 2009)
Ruby Cora Wille Blanchet (1916 - 2015)
Steward Henry Wille (1920 - 1920)
Raymond Erwin Wille (1921 - 2014)
Aaron Donald Wille (1925 - 2007)
- source: Find-A-Grave,
memorial# 52397946
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