Rosalie Anne Eaton

TORRINGTON, WYOMING...........Funeral services for ROSALIE ANNE EATON, 95, will be held at 2pm Friday, December 20, 2019 at the Colyer Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the Valley View Cemetery. Rosalie went to be with her childhood family of twelve on Monday December 16, 2019 following a short illness. She was the last of her twelve siblings. Memorials may be given to St Joseph Children’s Home. Visitation will be Thursday from 3pm to 5pm and the casket will be open briefly following the service. Arrangements are by the Colyer Funeral Home and condolences may be sent to www.colyerfuneralhome.com. Rosalie was the youngest of twelve children, born May 12, 1924 to Nick and Veronica (Tomasciewska) Klopatek near Steven’s Point (Palonia), Wisconsin. An active high school student, she played the catcher position for her softball team, served as a drum majorette and graduated with high marks from PJ Jacobs High School in Wisconsin. Her sense of adventure began the ground work for her later talents in serving in community settings as an avid piano player and singer. She loved piano, singing, flower gardening and taking day-long road trips with her friends throughout her life. Setting off for the big city after graduation, she took a position as a clerk typist for Allstate Insurance in Chicago, Illinois before she met her future husband, Daniel Rock, who was serving in the USAF as a bombardier trainee before deployment during World War II. The couple relocated to Big Springs, Texas, where he completed his military training while she worked in the base office as a clerk/typist. Following the end of Daniel’s active service and near the end of the war, the couple married on March 3, 1945 and moved to Norden, Nebraska to take up agriculture and hospital work. Within their union the couple had five children. Years later, following her husband’s death, Rosalie resided in Torrington, Wyoming and in December of 1976 married Melvin Eaton. The family increased to ten children through the marriage and she resided in Veteran and Torrington for the remainder of her life, raising her children and stepchildren to adulthood. In 1969, Rosalie received her Accredited Record Technologist Certification and served the local hospital as a Medical Records Technician, having already received training in X-ray management and hospital support throughout her career. She maintained that position until the mid-1980's, when she retired to assist her husband with the family ranch in Veteran, Goshen County. The couple returned to live in Torrington in 1989 where they have resided since, celebrating the births of eighteen grandchildren in their blended family, and several great grandchildren. Rosalie was preceded in death by her first husband Daniel Rock and her eldest son Patrick Rock and is survived by her husband Melvin Eaton and six daughters and three sons, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Rosalie Anne Eaton

May 12, 1924 - December 16, 2019