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Note: Born, on Monday, May 11, to Mr. and Mrs. P.J. Gaasch, a girl.
Iona Journal (Iona, Murray County, Minnesota), 22 May 1908, page 5, column 1; Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul. [Little Rose once told a neighbor her birthday was "Two sticks in May." Rose shared this date with Minnesota, having been born on the 50th anniversary of statehood. She was born in the upstairs bedroom of the home at the lumber yard and a month after her family came to Iona.]
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Eleven Received Their Diplomas on Thursday
The Majestic Theater witnessed a very impressive scene on Thursday evening at eight o'clock when eleven of our promising young people graduated from St. Columba High School. A most fitted and well rendered address was given the graduates by the Reverend John Stapleton of Rushford, Minn. The diplomas were presented by the Reverend John Dolle to:
Rosanna Ebbers, Rose Mary Gaasch, Mary Gaul, Clara Graf, Raymond Herrig, Joseph Herrig, Margaret Kellen, Joseph Koob, Grace McKenny, Louis Scheuring, Euphrosyne Weyker
The evening program consisted of the following numbers:
St. Columba School Song � The High School Glee Club
Saxaphone Solo � Louis Scheuring
Accompanied by � Euphrosyne Weyker
Piano Duet � Restless Gallop � Mary and Catherine Schroeder
Graduates Farewell Song � The Graduates
The Class of '26 may justly feel proud of the records made during their four years of school life in the Iona high school. Fortunate indeed have they been in the splendid faculty that has labored unselfishly for their success.
That each and every member of the graduating class of 1926 may build for themselves monuments of success is the wish of their many friends.
Iona Journal, 11 June 1926, page 1, column 3.
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Miss Rose Gaasch, teacher of Dist. 37, closed her term of school Friday. They enjoyed a picnic for the pupils and parents at the school house.
Undated news clipping. [Rose taught at the Bierman-Gehlsen District 37 School for 2 years before her marriage, the 1928-1929 and 1929-1930 school terms. The one-room schoolhouse was located about a half-mile south and two miles east of Iona. Rose would walk from her parents' home in town to school using the railroad tracks as a shortcut. On cold mornings she left home early to light the cast iron stove and warm the classroom before her students arrived.]
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Iona � School opened at Saint Columba with an increase of fourteen over last year's enrollment in the first grade and an increase of five in the high school The fourth and sixth grades were both increased by one pupil.
During the summer the desks throughout the school were sanded and varnished and the floors were refinished. These improvements have changed the appearance of the school.
There were three changes in personnel for the present school year. Mrs. Ed Ehleringer is teaching third and fourth. Sister M. Lisette and Sister M. Agnes Cecile are assisting Sister M. Prosper in the High School.
Newspaper clipping, dated 1957. [Rose was called upon to teach the third and fourth grades at St. Columba for four school years � 1955-1956, 1957-1958, 1963-1964, 1964-1965 � after which the parish school was closed. Third and fourth grade students sat on opposite sides of the classroom. While one grade was being lectured, the other was expected to quietly work on their assignments. After each class, Rose walked down the aisles and individually helped students. Her evenings were spent at the dining room table correcting assignments and preparing for class.]
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In Memory of Rose Ehleringer
Rose Mary Ehleringer was born May 11, 1908, at Iona, Minn. to parents John and Mary O'Toole Gaasch. She grew up in Iona where her father managed the lumber yard and received her education from the St. Columba Catholic School, and the Mankato State College and graduated from St. Cloud State College with a degree in teaching. On June 3, 1930, at Iona she and Edward N. Ehleringer were united in marriage. Following their marriage they lived in Iona, Minn., where he operated Ehleringers' Garage. She taught dist. school near Iona and also taught at the St. Columba School. She was a member of the St. Columba Catholic Church, Catholic Daughters of America and was very active in the church offices and activities. She had received the Iona Outstanding Senior Citizen's Award in 1970. She passed away Jan. 31, 1972 at Slayton, Minn. at the age of 65 years.
She is survived by her husband and 4 children: Joan, Mrs. James Risacher, Brighton, Michigan; Patricia, Mrs. Robert Westlund, Minneapolis, Minn.; James E. Ehleringer and Joseph J. Ehleringer, both of Minneapolis. Also surviving are 7 grandchildren, 1 brother, Gerald M. Gaasch, Alborn, Minn., and 1 sister, Mary, Mrs. J.J. Hames, Clearwater, Florida. She was preceded in death by her parents and 1 brother, Francis.
Funeral services held Sat., Feb. 2, 1974, 10 a.m., St. Columba Catholic Church, Iona, Minn., Rev. Charles Quinn officiating. Pallbearers: Wm. Halbur, Bob Frisk, John Scheuring, Aloy Koob, Joe Kellen and Rich Entinger. Interment in the St. Columba Catholic Cemetery, Iona, Minn.
Arrangements by the Hustad Funeral Home, Slayton, Minn.
Memorial Card for Rose Ehleringer.
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Rose instigated this family tree project. She corresponded with older family members in the mid-1960s, organizing and distributing their recollections. Her histories of the Gaasch and O'Toole families are the heart and soul of this file. Without these, countless relationships and personal stories would have been forgotten.
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