Rose Clara Scheeler was born June 13, 1916 in Warden, Washington to Karl and Magdalena Beck. She was a longtime resident of Lind, graduating from Lind High School in 1935.

After high school jobs were hard to come by, so Rose and her sister Justine cooked school lunches and worked at the telephone office as switchboard operators.

During WWII Rose worked at Kasper's grocery store at which time all items purchased were handwritten on a receipt slip. She also worked at Angelo's Restaurant, Hains Variety and Emerson Drug.

On August 2, 1947 she married the love of her life, John Scheeler. Rose and John moved to the Scheeler farm where John and his brother Jack farmed as Scheeler Brothers. In 1982 John and Rose moved into Lind and in 1986 retired from farming.

Rose was an active member of Good Hope Lutheran Church of Lind where she served as church council secretary and was active in the Women's Circle. She had been a 50-year member of the Business Girls Club (Tredecim Club) and a 50-year member of the Rebekah Lodge. Rose also worked with the Red Cross, voting polls and was very active in the Lind Centennial in 1988. Rose had many hobbies that kept her busy through the years: collecting antique beaded purses, digging for antique bottles, and cake decorating, to name a few.

Rose may have been small but she was mighty. There were few things she couldn't do. She helped many people in the town of Lind throughout the years, making meals for those who became ill, or cookies and sweets to lift the spirits of those who needed well wishes, saying "That's what life is about."

Rose is preceeded in death by her parents; husband John; brothers Edwin (Hulda), Fred (Sylva), Benjamin (Gertrude) and Johann; sisters Johanna Beck, Bertha (Reinhold) Wahl, Amelia (David) Sauer, Pauline (Julius) Roloff, Helen (Edmund) Gutschmidt, and Justine (John) Winkler.

She is survived by daughter Loretta (Bob) Hudson of Mariposa, California; granddaughter Kim (Jim) Vineyard of Atwater, California; and two great-grandchildren, Amber (Clark) Evans Elkins of West Virginia and Daniella Vineyard of Merced, California; and many nieces and nephews.

A celebration of Rose's life will be held at a later date.

ref: Adams County Journal, January 12, 2017