Obituary Record

Emogene "Gene"(Christensen) Rohlff
Died on 6/12/2004

Published in the Norfolk Daily News 6/14/2004 and the Omaha World Herald 6/14/2004.

Services for Emogene “Gene” Rohlff, 69, Winside, will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 15, at Trinity Lutheran Church here. The Rev. William Koeber and Glenn Kietzmann will officiate with burial in the Pleasantview Cemetery.

Visitation will be from noon until 8 p.m. Monday at Schumacher-Hasemann Funeral Home in Winside with family present 6-8 p.m.

She died Saturday June 12, 2004, at home.

The daughter of Lorin and Catherine (Voss) Christensen was born Sept. 14, 1934, on a farm in Washington County. She attended Mattes School near Arlington and graduated from Blair High School in 1951. She then worked as a secretary for Motorola.

She married Virgil Rohlff on Aug. 14, 1954, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Bennington. She worked as a secretary in the library at Burke High School in Omaha for more than 20 years. She retired in 1992, and the couple moved to Winside.

Mrs. Rohlff was a past member of St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church in Omaha. She was a 50-year member of Sarepta Chapter 48 Order of Eastern Star in Arlington. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Winside and Winside Library Board.

Published in the Norfolk Daily News 6/14/2004 and the Omaha World Herald 6/14/2004.

Services for Emogene “Gene” Rohlff, 69, Winside, will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 15, at Trinity Lutheran Church here. The Rev. William Koeber and Glenn Kietzmann will officiate with burial in the Pleasantview Cemetery.

Visitation will be from noon until 8 p.m. Monday at Schumacher-Hasemann Funeral Home in Winside with family present 6-8 p.m. She died Saturday June 12, 2004, at home.

The daughter of Lorin and Catherine (Voss) Christensen was born Sept. 14, 1934, on a farm in Washington County. She attended Mattes School near Arlington and graduated from Blair High School in 1951. She then worked as a secretary for Motorola. She married Virgil Rohlff on Aug. 14, 1954, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Bennington. She worked as a secretary in the library at Burke High School in Omaha for more than 20 years. She retired in 1992, and the couple moved to Winside.

Mrs. Rohlff was a past member of St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church in Omaha. She was a 50-year member of Sarepta Chapter 48 Order of Eastern Star in Arlington. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Winside and Winside Library Board.

Survivors include her husband; one daughter and her husband, Lori and Keith Suehl of Hoskins; one sister, Karen Ladehoff of Arlington; and two grandsons, Trent and Taylor Suehl. She was preceded in death by her parents.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska~~~

FindaGrave # 191665397

Printed in the Omaha World Herald on 6/14/2004


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