Anna Mae Roseberry, Emporia
1919 - 2008
Anna Mae Horack Roseberry of Emporia, formerly of Oxford, died Friday, Jan. 11, 2008, at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor. She was 88.
Mrs. Roseberry and her first husband, Ernest Horack, farmed until 1960 when they purchased Donley Hardware and moved to Oxford. After his death, she was treasurer for the City of Oxford and bookkeeper for Riverview Manor in Oxford. In 1964, she started working full-time for the Oxford Dehydrating Company where she worked 21 years until she retired in December 1984. After high school, she worked at Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in Wichita.
The daughter of Henry and Amy Fredrickson Wolf, she was born Aug. 4, 1919, in rural Ashton. She graduated from Kinkaid Rural School and South Haven High School in 1927.
She married Ernest Horack on June 9, 1943. He died July 11, 1962. She married Paul Roseberry in 1985 and they lived in Oxford until September 2005. He died Dec. 19, 2005.
Mrs. Horack Roseberry was a member of the Oxford Methodist Church, where she taught Sunday school and was a member of several committees. She also was a member and president of the United Methodist Women.
She is survived by four daughters, Andrea Cerretti of Emporia, Anita Bales of Oxford, Amy Meades of Vermontville, Mich., and Alane Kemp of Kennewick, Wash.; a stepson, Ben Roseberry of Tecumseh; two sisters, Harriet Coulter of Oxford and Lois Jordan of Wichita; one brother, Henry Wolf of Caldwell; 13 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. A stepson, Alan Roseberry; sister, Doris Haines; two brothers, Wallace “Bud” Wolf and Carl Wolf; and a stepgrandson, Jeff Roseberry, died earlier.
The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Oxford United Methodist Church. The family will meet friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m. today at the Oxford Funeral Service Chapel.
Memorial contributions to the church may be sent in care of the funeral home, 104 N. Sumner, Oxford, KS 67119.
Messages to the family may be left at www.oxfordfuneralservice.com.