Rose Friesen

Rose Marie (Unger) Friesen, 88, passed away on Saturday, June 20, 2015, at the Faith Lutheran Home in Wolf Point, Mont.

She was born Aug. 23, 1926, in Endicott, Neb. She was less than a year old when she moved with her parents to Lustre.

She attended schools in Lustre and Wolf Point and was a member of the First Lutheran Church. Her main interests and talents were sewing, crocheting, cooking, gardening and loving everyone, especially children.

She sewed most of her daughters' wedding dresses and also made their wedding cakes. The family would do almost anything for her Vereniki, homemade noodle soup and Zweiback, to name a few of the favorites.

She loved to garden and would amaze her family by planting potatoes under straw and even planting peanuts and cotton just to see them grow.

She married Henry "Hank" Friesen Sept. 3, 1945, and they were blessed with six children. She and Hank moved into Wolf Point from the farm 18 miles north of Oswego in 2000. In town she kept busy crocheting afghans for all of her children, grandchildren and then some until Alzheimers got the best of her. She moved to the Faith Lutheran Home in 2010 and loved every minute there because the staff was so good to her. They treat everyone like family.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Hank Friesen in 2011; one brother, Edwin "Ed" Unger; and three sisters, Leatha (Brown) Unger and LaVera and Helen Unger.

Survivors include six children, Elizabeth Ann "Betsy" Adams of Tucson, Ariz., Kathleen Rose "Jackie" Handren and her husband, Jerry, of Glendive, Denise Lucy Green and her husband, Tommy, of Belgrade, Glenn Jay Friesen of Tucson, Ariz., Carol Jean Grigg and her husband, Mel, and Stanley Hank "Stan" Friesen and his wife, Sonja, of Lustre; two brothers, LaVern "Vern" Unger of Wolf Point and Larry Unger and his wife, Charlotte, of Lustre; many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Clayton-Stevenson Memorial Chapel in Wolf Point was in charge of arrangements.