Ms Rose Josephine Krause

Rose was born in 1916 in New Orleans. The family moved to St. Louis a few years later, where Rose and her three sisters, Lee, Ann and Kit, grew up. Shortly after moving to California in 1948 she married Joseph Lang and had two daughters, Rosalie and MaryJo. After his death in 1951 Rose went to work for Pacific Telephone as a telephone operator. In 1958 she was a contestant on the TV show Queen for Day, which she won, earning her many prizes including a trip to Paris and a piano for her two daughters. In 1963 she met Hank Krause. They were married in 1965, which gave Rose a whole additional family in Diana, Larry and Joanne, and Robert along with their children and, eventually, grandchildren. Rose loved her family and was an affectionate and generous daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt, grandmother and great-grandmother. She loved to dance, and when her cousin Gus Giordano, a choreographer of some note, introduced her to members of his dance troupe, he said, �This is the lady who taught me to dance.� She and Hank belonged to a square dancing club and she even took up line dancing. She had the gift of making lifelong friends and her dining room table was always full of cards on her birthday and at Christmas from people who cared for her over the miles and through the years. She spoke and visited regularly with her sister Kit and brother-in-law Jack. She liked funny stories and playing card games. She was an essential fixture at family gatherings. The extraordinary endowments of her heart and spirit are remembered and celebrated by all who knew and loved her. Throughout the course of her long life, Rose was a devout Catholic and an ecumenist. She would go to Mass at her parish church on Saturday night and accompany Hank to Lutheran services on Sundays. She was active in both churches, dedicating her life to the service of God and her neighbor. She had a special devotion to the Blessed Mother and was steadfast in her trust and love of the Lord. She was preceded in death by her sisters Lee and Ann, and by her husbands Joe and Hank. It was Hank�s final concern that she would be well taken care of after his passing, and in the staff of Wildomar Adult Living Community and of Visiting Nurses Association � Hospice of the Inland Counties she found a whole new circle of loving friends to accompany her through her final years. When she was a young girl a perceptive teacher wrote a poem for her: They say a rose has thorns And so it may But I know a rose from whom All thorns have passed away And only sweetness remains to stay.