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Rosa Catherine Laux Fenton

27 Jan 1915 – 28 Oct 1998

Birth27 Jan 1915
Death28 Oct 1998
CemeteryMount Olivet Catholic Cemetery
Wheat Ridge , Jefferson County , Colorado , USA
Added byK Ahroon on 08 May 2017
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179155640

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Burial 11/3/1998

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Rosa was the youngest of 7 children, born to Joseph Adam Laux and Maude Young in Havelock, Lancaster, Nebraska. When Rosa was a young girl, a blind woman who lived nearby taught her how to play chords on the piano. Rosa, never having learned to read music, learned to play the piano quite well by ear and would often be the center of entertainment at family gatherings. Her husband, Dick, printed out the words to the songs she played and everyone sang along. Later in life, she'd play the Notre Dame march while the kids marched upstairs in their pajamas and hid. They would then find the kids and put them to bed. Pretty good psychology in getting everyone to bed without an argument! During Rosa's childhood, she was quite popular (as one of her cousins informed me), active in school plays and often won school spelling bees. She was also very pretty and at the age of 16, she entered the Lincoln Bathing Beauty Contest in Lincoln at the urging of some of her friends. She did not tell her parents. She ended up winning the contest becoming "Miss Lincoln" and her photo was published in the Lincoln Star newspaper on July 27, 1931. She said her father was not happy about seeing his daughter in a swim suit, in the newspaper! She won $50, which was a good sum of money for a 16 year old back then! Rosa attended Cathedral High School and fell in love with the captain of the football team, Dick Fenton. Dick and Rosa were married July 16, 1936 in Campbell, Franklin, Nebraska. They later had 7 children, Maureen, Joe, Richard, Betty, Larry, Mary Lou and Kathy. Rosa was always very hard working and after her youngest began first grade, she went out job hunting, eventually securing a job with the Federal Center in Denver as a transcriber. She later became employed at the Air Force Finance Center, which was much closer to home and she worked their until her retirement at 65 years old. Rosa was very faithful in her attendance in the Catholic church, attending Mass every Sunday and always attending on holy days and for the stations of the cross during the Lenten season. Following the death of her husband Dick, Rosa moved to Pueblo, Colorado to be near her daughter, Betty, and children. She later had a heart attack in 1986 and also suffered from congestive heart failure. Her health declined and she ended up living with her daughter, Betty Reynolds and their family, where she stayed for 12 years. Eventually, she required 24/7 care and had to go to a nursing home. She went into hospice care and died at the Elms Haven Nursing Home on October 28, 1998 at the age of 83. Rosa was cremated and her ashes are buried along side her husband, Dick, at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado.

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