ST. PAUL — Rose M. Thede, 98, of St. Paul died Tuesday, April 24, 2018, at the Howard County Community Hospital in St. Paul.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Zion Lutheran Church in Worms. The Rev. Craig Niemeyer will officiate. Burial will be in the Norwegian Cemetery northwest of Worms. Jacobsen-Greenway Funeral Home in St. Paul is in charge of the arrangements.

Mrs. Thede was born on Feb. 27, 1920, near Worms in Merrick County to Onen and Hedwig (Wagner) Simonson.

She was baptized on March 21, 1920, and confirmed on May 13, 1934, at Zion Lutheran Church in Worms. She was a lifetime member at Zion Lutheran.

Rose was united in marriage to Harry Thede on July 11, 1941, in Worms. They made their home on the family farm until 1984, when they moved to St. Paul.

Harry preceded her in death on Dec. 17, 2006.


Rose’s love was her family and she enjoyed cooking, gardening and reading.

Survivors include her two daughters and sons-in-law, Betty and Larry Bates of Hastings and Susan and Larry Kiser of St. Paul; two sons and daughters-in-law, Robert and Janice Thede of Alamogordo, N.M., and Larry and Laurie Thede of Englewood, Colo; nine grandchildren, Timothy Bates, Randy Bates, Melissa Bates, Tammy Thede, Cindi Anderson, Jason Kiser, Adam Thede, Emily Moore and Rosalie Potter; 10 great-grandchildren, two stepgreat-grandsons and one stepgreat-great-grandson; nieces and nephews; a sister, May Mettenbrink of Grand Island; and a brother-in-law, Eugene Bredthauer of Ord.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her stepmother, Ida Simonson; her husband, Harry; a granddaughter, Jennifer Kiser; three sisters and two brothers-in-law, Esther and Charles Van Pelt, Alice and Harvey Langrehr, Alma Bredthauer; and a brother and sister-in-law, John and Norma Jean Simonson.