Aug 9, 1917 - Jan 12, 2018
Rose was born the eldest of eight on a farm near Willowbrook, SK. This is probably why she was so bossy and opinionated. She did have inner strength though. After completing high school she left home, to escape having to marry a guy her father chose, with two dollars in her purse.
She attended business college in Vancouver and was an office worker for her entire career. She married Herbert Grasser in 1950 and they lived in Edmonton and Prince George before settling White Rock in the early 60's.
Rose was active. She curled in her younger years and lawn bowled in her senior years. She was very disciplined with her diet and exercise, and would go for a walk almost every day. She especially enjoyed walking on the promenade down by the beach. She also liked shopping for and buying shoes at Elegante.
Rose was a member of the Catholic Women's League for over fifty years and was on the White Rock Council of Women. How ironic, considering how rude she was to salesgirls and most other women. Always critical, that is why she had no friends, even after living in White Rock for over 50 years.
She has one sister surviving her, in Regina (aged 95) and many nieces and nephews.
A small funeral was held in West Kelowna and her ashes will be interred, (in a shoe box) sometime late spring, in White Rock.