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To this family and its welfare Walter M. Rosene was very devoted. 
He was a father to be emulated. It is well remembered how faithfully 
he tried to obtain a cure for Thyra when she almost lost her life from 
poison ivy, how much attention he gave to both son and daughter dur- 
ing the growing period of their lives, and of the kindness and gentle- 
ness with which he cared for his faithful wife during her several years 
of entire helplessness following an automobile accident. His place as 
a father is shown in one of his last letters written in Mav 1941, in 
which he wrote: 
^ ls ’ ^ osene died in September, 1939, I have maintained 
my old home and have had housekeepers. That is an expensive 
way of living but I hate to leave the old home which I built when 
I was married 37 years ago. I am expecting my children home in 
September for our annual reunion. We all met in Schenectady 
in lJ.^J and in Alabama in 1940 and now this will be the year we 
meet in good old Iowa, That is the way we rotate and that gives 
us all a chance to see each other once a year. I have a grandson 
down in Alabama who is almost a year old now and he is the best 
in the world. I was down and saw him at Christmas time and can 
hardly wait until I can see him again." 
