Rose M. Hammerschmidt
Rose M. Hammerschmidt, 90, Hays, died Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008, at Hays Good Samaritan Center.
She was born Sept. 17, 1917, in Antonino to Michael J. and Catherine (Ruder) Haas. She married Lawrence Hammerschmidt on Nov. 21, 1938, in Antonino. He preceded her in death Feb. 24, 2000. She was a nursing assistant at St. Anthony's Hospital for 25 years.
She was a member of St, Joseph Catholic Church, Altar Society Christian Mothers and the Perpetual Adorers, all of Hays.
Survivors include two sons. Harold Hammerschmidt and wife, Marilyn, Littleton, Colo., and James Hammerschmidt and wife, Clara, Baton Rouge, La.; five daughters. Rose Mary Staab and husband, Kenneth, Grand Island, Neb., Pauline Deges, Hays, Jeanette Grist and husband, Tom, Andover, Karen Davis and husband, Wayne, Nacogdoches, Texas, and Darlene Poe and husband, Alan, Houston; two sisters, Philomena Pfannenstiel, Hays, and Therese Kuhn, Colorado Springs, Colo.; 13 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Marlene Hammerschmidt; three granddaughters, Susan Deges, Stephanie Hammerschmidt Gussman and Sara Davis; two brothers, Jacob and Henry Haas; and four sisters, Sister Rose Ann Haas, Amelia Glassman, Agrabina Zimmerman and Clare Haas.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Joseph Catholic Church; burial in St. Joseph Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today and from 9 to 9:30 a.m. Monday, both at Hays Memorial Chapel Funeral Home, 20th and Pine.
An Altar Society Christian Mothers rosary will be at 4 p.m. today, followed by a Perpetual Adorers rosary at 4:30 p.m., both at the funeral home.
A vigil will be at 6:30 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorials are suggested to Thomas More Prep-Marian High School or St. Joseph Catholic Church in care of the funeral home.
I only wish that I had had the opportunity to have met your Mother and gotten to know her in person. I know, by listening to the many wonderful things that her daughter, Darlene (my daughter-inlaw) and my son, Alan, told me about her and the times they spent together that she and I would have been instant friends as well as relatives by marriage. She will, indeed, be missed by all of us who knew of her and about her.
(Posted by: Mrs. Margie Poe)
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