1922
Rosetta
2010
Rosetta Beutler
January 30, 1922 — January 19, 2010
Family and friends are asked to meet at the Yellowbank Emmanuel Lutheran Cemetery, near Odessa, MN, by 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 12th, 2010, for her graveside service. Reverend Janine (Rew) Werling will officiate.
The cemetery is located about thirteen miles east of Milbank on old Highway 12. One will see a gravel road going off the blacktop to one's right. There is also a green sign saying "Yellowbank Cemetery." Follow the gravel road southeast past the first cemetery and then turn south to the second cemetery with the white church steeple.
Following the committal service, there will be an open house at the Raymond Beutler farm.
Funeral services for Rosetta Violet (Norton) Beutler, age 87, of Milbank, will begin at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, January 25th, at the American Evangelical Lutheran Church in Milbank. The Reverends N. Craig Werling and Janine Rew-Werling will officiate. The organist will be Carol Ydstie and the soloist will be Reverend N. Craig Werling. Rosetta died on Tuesday, January 19th, at the Golden Living Center in Milbank.
Family members are asked to meet in the church chapel by 12:30 p.m. Monday to attend services. Visitation will be at the Emanuel-Patterson Funeral Home in Milbank on Sunday from 3-5 p.m. and in the church Monday one hour before services. Pallbearers will be her grandchildren: Tracy Knutson, Cory Beutler, Jason Beutler, Jay Beutler, Kip Sparby, Chris Haaf, Monica Buchhorn, Joshua Beutler, Colby Nealis, Lindy Sparby, Jacob Beutler, and Ashley Beutler. Burial will be in the Yellowbank Cemetery near Odessa, MN, later this spring.
Rosetta Violet (Norton) Beutler was born at the farm home near Luverne, MN, on January 30, 1922. She was the daughter of Roy and Ruth (Heintz) Norton. She was baptized on January 1, 1923. When she was 2 A½ years old, the family moved to Waverly, SD, and subsequently to Goodwin, Clear Lake, and Gary, SD. She received her elementary education in numerous schools in rural Deuel County, SD, and graduated from eighth grade in Gary, SD, in 1935. She was confirmed on June 30, 1935, at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Gary. In 1939 she graduated from Gary High School. She attended one year of college at Eastern State Normal School in Madison, SD, where she received a First Grade Teaching Certificate. Rosetta then taught for two years in Deuel County, SD.
On October 10, 1942, she married Percy Beutler at the Lutheran Parsonage in Benson, MN. Soon afterwards the couple moved to Los Angeles, CA, and worked in defense industries helping build planes for the war effort. Their first child Marlys was born there.
After the end of World War II, the threesome moved back to South Dakota where Percy and Rosetta were blessed with five more children: Louise, William, Paul, Lucille, and Raymond. They lived on the Beutler home farm in rural Milbank. In 1959 Rosetta resumed her teaching career. Since education was extremely important, this additional income helped provide a college education for the children.
After teaching three years in rural SD schools, Mrs. Beutler began teaching in Bellingham, MN. She continued to go to summer school at Moorhead State University in Moorhead, MN, where she earned her BS Degree in Elementary Education in 1964 and her MS Degree in Elementary Supervision in 1977. While teaching at Bellingham, she also taught Driver's Education at Bellingham, Chandler, and Marietta, after school and during the summers. Her own children often commented that they felt like they had received at least ten years of driver's education. She continued as a teacher-principal at Bellingham until her retirement in 1985, thus completing a twenty-eight year career. Leadership positions during her teaching career included president of the Bellingham Education Association and the Reading Teachers Association. She was also the editor of Thursday Thoughts. Upon her retirement, she and Percy moved from the home farm to Milbank, SD.
Mrs. Beutler held many positions of leadership in the American Lutheran Church in Milbank as president of the church circles, chairman of the Joy Circle, secretary of Mission Growth of WELCA, president of the Milbank Christian Women's Club, president and secretary of the Milbank Area Retired Teachers, a teacher for the Milbank Literacy Council, and Bible study leader for several Stonecraft Bible Study groups for many years. Rosetta was also part of the Senior Service Project serving as a radio broadcast speaker on behalf of senior adults for a period of two years. She went on MOST (Missionary Opportunity Short Term) Ministry trips to Africa three times, once to Macaw, China, and once to Bolivia to assist with fitting glasses and telling the story of salvation.
After her husband, Percy's death on June 16, 1988, Rosetta spent many hours doing volunteer work in the community as a Hospice visitor, a teacher's aide, a Sunday school teacher, and as a tutor for individual students and for S.C.I.P. (Second Chance Independent Plan). She was always willing to help out in any way she could.
Rosetta enjoyed being busy as indicated by the hundreds of quillos she sewed, the many afghans she knitted, the table cloths she crocheted, and the personalized baby blankets she crocheted for each grandchild and great grandchild. She also spent many, many hours gathering information and working up family trees for her husband's grandparents and her own grandparents. She enjoyed the time she spent on her computer organizing and indexing the family history.
Because Mrs. Beutler enjoyed poetry, she made it a practice to return to the Bellingham School each year to read poetry to the students in the grade school and the high school. She also enjoyed writing poetry and completed a collection of more than one hundred individual poems which included poems written for special events in peoples' lives. She had added music to some of her poems and loved to sing them on special occasions. Her fifty-four page Family Saga will be treasured by her children and their families forever.
Mrs. Beutler is survived by three daughters: Marli Haaf and husband Paul, Overland Park, KS; Lou Nealis and husband Ron, Ocala, FL; and Luci Sparby and husband Jerry, Cold Spring, MN; three sons: Bill Beutler and wife Sandy, Moorhead, MN; Paul Beutler and wife Mary, Clermont, FL; and Raymond Beutler and wife Sharon, rural Milbank; twelve grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; one sister, Eleanor Henderson, Sioux Falls, SD; two sisters-in-law, Mildred Schneck, Milbank, SD, and Peggy Sellin, Watertown, SD; one brother-in-law, Roy Beutler, Ortonville, MN; and numerous nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews, and cousins.
Her husband, parents, three brothers, Guy, Roy, and Archie Norton, and one sister, Lillie Beutler Olson, preceded her in death.
The cemetery is located about thirteen miles east of Milbank on old Highway 12. One will see a gravel road going off the blacktop to one's right. There is also a green sign saying "Yellowbank Cemetery." Follow the gravel road southeast past the first cemetery and then turn south to the second cemetery with the white church steeple.
Following the committal service, there will be an open house at the Raymond Beutler farm.
Funeral services for Rosetta Violet (Norton) Beutler, age 87, of Milbank, will begin at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, January 25th, at the American Evangelical Lutheran Church in Milbank. The Reverends N. Craig Werling and Janine Rew-Werling will officiate. The organist will be Carol Ydstie and the soloist will be Reverend N. Craig Werling. Rosetta died on Tuesday, January 19th, at the Golden Living Center in Milbank.
Family members are asked to meet in the church chapel by 12:30 p.m. Monday to attend services. Visitation will be at the Emanuel-Patterson Funeral Home in Milbank on Sunday from 3-5 p.m. and in the church Monday one hour before services. Pallbearers will be her grandchildren: Tracy Knutson, Cory Beutler, Jason Beutler, Jay Beutler, Kip Sparby, Chris Haaf, Monica Buchhorn, Joshua Beutler, Colby Nealis, Lindy Sparby, Jacob Beutler, and Ashley Beutler. Burial will be in the Yellowbank Cemetery near Odessa, MN, later this spring.
Rosetta Violet (Norton) Beutler was born at the farm home near Luverne, MN, on January 30, 1922. She was the daughter of Roy and Ruth (Heintz) Norton. She was baptized on January 1, 1923. When she was 2 A½ years old, the family moved to Waverly, SD, and subsequently to Goodwin, Clear Lake, and Gary, SD. She received her elementary education in numerous schools in rural Deuel County, SD, and graduated from eighth grade in Gary, SD, in 1935. She was confirmed on June 30, 1935, at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Gary. In 1939 she graduated from Gary High School. She attended one year of college at Eastern State Normal School in Madison, SD, where she received a First Grade Teaching Certificate. Rosetta then taught for two years in Deuel County, SD.
On October 10, 1942, she married Percy Beutler at the Lutheran Parsonage in Benson, MN. Soon afterwards the couple moved to Los Angeles, CA, and worked in defense industries helping build planes for the war effort. Their first child Marlys was born there.
After the end of World War II, the threesome moved back to South Dakota where Percy and Rosetta were blessed with five more children: Louise, William, Paul, Lucille, and Raymond. They lived on the Beutler home farm in rural Milbank. In 1959 Rosetta resumed her teaching career. Since education was extremely important, this additional income helped provide a college education for the children.
After teaching three years in rural SD schools, Mrs. Beutler began teaching in Bellingham, MN. She continued to go to summer school at Moorhead State University in Moorhead, MN, where she earned her BS Degree in Elementary Education in 1964 and her MS Degree in Elementary Supervision in 1977. While teaching at Bellingham, she also taught Driver's Education at Bellingham, Chandler, and Marietta, after school and during the summers. Her own children often commented that they felt like they had received at least ten years of driver's education. She continued as a teacher-principal at Bellingham until her retirement in 1985, thus completing a twenty-eight year career. Leadership positions during her teaching career included president of the Bellingham Education Association and the Reading Teachers Association. She was also the editor of Thursday Thoughts. Upon her retirement, she and Percy moved from the home farm to Milbank, SD.
Mrs. Beutler held many positions of leadership in the American Lutheran Church in Milbank as president of the church circles, chairman of the Joy Circle, secretary of Mission Growth of WELCA, president of the Milbank Christian Women's Club, president and secretary of the Milbank Area Retired Teachers, a teacher for the Milbank Literacy Council, and Bible study leader for several Stonecraft Bible Study groups for many years. Rosetta was also part of the Senior Service Project serving as a radio broadcast speaker on behalf of senior adults for a period of two years. She went on MOST (Missionary Opportunity Short Term) Ministry trips to Africa three times, once to Macaw, China, and once to Bolivia to assist with fitting glasses and telling the story of salvation.
After her husband, Percy's death on June 16, 1988, Rosetta spent many hours doing volunteer work in the community as a Hospice visitor, a teacher's aide, a Sunday school teacher, and as a tutor for individual students and for S.C.I.P. (Second Chance Independent Plan). She was always willing to help out in any way she could.
Rosetta enjoyed being busy as indicated by the hundreds of quillos she sewed, the many afghans she knitted, the table cloths she crocheted, and the personalized baby blankets she crocheted for each grandchild and great grandchild. She also spent many, many hours gathering information and working up family trees for her husband's grandparents and her own grandparents. She enjoyed the time she spent on her computer organizing and indexing the family history.
Because Mrs. Beutler enjoyed poetry, she made it a practice to return to the Bellingham School each year to read poetry to the students in the grade school and the high school. She also enjoyed writing poetry and completed a collection of more than one hundred individual poems which included poems written for special events in peoples' lives. She had added music to some of her poems and loved to sing them on special occasions. Her fifty-four page Family Saga will be treasured by her children and their families forever.
Mrs. Beutler is survived by three daughters: Marli Haaf and husband Paul, Overland Park, KS; Lou Nealis and husband Ron, Ocala, FL; and Luci Sparby and husband Jerry, Cold Spring, MN; three sons: Bill Beutler and wife Sandy, Moorhead, MN; Paul Beutler and wife Mary, Clermont, FL; and Raymond Beutler and wife Sharon, rural Milbank; twelve grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; one sister, Eleanor Henderson, Sioux Falls, SD; two sisters-in-law, Mildred Schneck, Milbank, SD, and Peggy Sellin, Watertown, SD; one brother-in-law, Roy Beutler, Ortonville, MN; and numerous nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews, and cousins.
Her husband, parents, three brothers, Guy, Roy, and Archie Norton, and one sister, Lillie Beutler Olson, preceded her in death.