Rosalind Susan Welch

Rosalind Susan Welch, or Crocker, was born on April 7th 1917, at Hooksett, New Hampshire, a daughter of Joseph Franklin and Myrtie May (Hodgeman) Lavalley, and departed this life at 5:47 p.m., on Monday November 12, 2018, in the Richland care center, Richland, Missouri. She had attained the age of 101 years, 7 months, and 5 days.

Mrs. Welch was united in marriage on September 25, 1979, at Sanford, Maine, to John Edward Welch Jr., and to this union, three children were born.

Rose was a graduate of Concord High School, Concord New Hampshire, Class of 1935, and also a graduate of Concord Commercial College. as a long-time resident of Concord, New Hampshire, and Newport, Rhode Island, she was a member of Fidelity Rebakah Lodge No. 14 in Concord; past president of the Concord BPW; charter member of "Women in Construction"; 1974 "Woman of the Year" in the New Hampshire good communicate of the St. George's Episcopal Church in Newport; and was an avid bowler, belonging to four leagues, while still in Rhode Island.

Prior to her retirement in 1980, Rose had worked as a bookkeeper during her working life and had been employed by the J.C. Penney Company Inc., Concord, New Hampshire, and then by the R.S. Audley Construction Company, Inc., Bow, New Hampshire. After retiring , she worked as an in home care giver and companion to the sick and elderly before moving to Richland, Missouri, in 1999.

Those left to mourn the passing of Mrs. Welch include: Her son, Henry Welch (Lorraine), Pittsfield, New Hampshire; her daughters. Susan Dodge, Richland; and Mary Chadbourne (Hersel), Crocker; nine grandchildren; twenty-five great grandchildren; eleven great great grandchildren; many nephews and pieces; and other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband John; father Joseph; her mother, Myrtie; one son-in-law, Daniel E. Dodge; two brothers, Harold Lavalley and Philip Lavalley; and two sisters Permelia Still and Bessie Bresaw.

Donations can be made to the Diabetes Association