Susan Jane Rosenbach, 74, of Dannebrog, Nebraska, passed away September
15, 2021 with her family by her side, at Grand Island Regional Medical
Center after a short, hard-fought battle with cancer.
Celebration
of life service will be 10:30 AM Thursday, September 23rd at All Faiths
Funeral Home in Grand Island. Daniel Naranjo will officiate.
Livestreaming will be available at www.giallfaiths.com. Burial of ashes will be at a later date in the Great Bend Cemetery.
Susan’s family will be greeting friends an hour before service time.
Memorials are suggested to the family to be determined at a later date.
Susan was born on January 13, 1947, in Great Bend, Kansas, to LC (Bud)
and Josephine (Seeger) Pryor. She grew up in Great Bend and was a proud
graduate of the class of 1965. She continued her education and graduated
from Fort Hays State University in 1972.
She was united in
marriage to Gary Rosenbach on January 6, 1973. Throughout their marriage
they lived in several cities and states before moving to her favorite
location, the farm near Dannebrog.
This is where all of her
passions truly thrived. She was able to share her love of animals,
especially horses, with her daughters. She spent countless hours sitting
through riding lessons, going to horse show, and just watching them
ride. Susan always believed in giving back and served as the Chairperson
for the Nebraska State 4-H Horse Exposition for many years.
Susan
loved gardening and could get any plant to thrive. She is well-known for
her floral quality sunflowers and extraordinary garlic and shallots.
She was even dubbed the “garlic queen.” Susan brought much of her
produce into the kitchen where she could turn anything into a gourmet
meal. There wasn’t anything she couldn’t make.
She was an avid
quilter and you could often find her at her machine working on a new
pattern. She was extremely precise and never started a project without
reading all the directions first. Some of her favorite quilts were the
two she made with her grandson.
For the last twenty years, she
worked at Stuhr Museum teaching classes for the education department.
She truly loved interacting with and teaching kids about what it was
like to live in the 1890’s. She often said she was going to retire, only
to say, “well maybe I’ll teach one more time.”
Those left to
cherish her memory are her husband Gary of Dannebrog; two daughters,
Jamee (Jeff) Bockerman of Hastings and Allison Rosenbach of Grand
Island; grandsons Brodyn, Hadyn and Hudsyn Bockerman; sister Jody Zink
of Pratt, Kansas; and niece Hayley Zink of Turon, Kansas.
She was preceded in death by her parents, and her in-laws.