Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cotter, Rose Marie (Grace) March 20, 2014
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Portland Review & Observer - Sunday, March 30, 2014

Rose Marie Cotter, Pewamo, age 83, passed away on March 20, 2014, at home. She 
was born December 19, 1930, in Carson City, Michigan to Nicholas and Helen 
Grace (nee Handlon). As a teenager, she volunteered as a hospital candy 
striper, soda jerk, ticket taker at the movie theater, and church organist at 
St. Mary's Parish. She was valedictorian of her Carson City St. Mary's high 
school. Rose Marie married John Cotter on June 23, 1951. She was a parishioner 
of St. Joseph's Catholic Church and was active in the Altar Society and other 
parish activities. She attended Aquinas College and received her Bachelors and 
Masters Degrees in Education from Central Michigan University. She taught in 
Pewamo-Westphalia's school system from 1958 until her retirement in 1988. She 
loved playing golf, tennis, bowling, gardening, baking cinnamon rolls and 
cookies, quilting, and many types of card games, which she played with friends 
from many nearby communities. She enjoyed being with family at various Michigan 
lakes. She also enjoyed her trips to Ireland, Las Vegas, Reno, the Bahamas, her 
cruise to Central America and visiting friends across the country. She loved 
watching her grandchildren in school activities and in sports; she was 
regularly in an audience, poolside, court side, or in some set of bleachers. 

She was preceded in death by John, her husband of 49 years, her parents, her 
brother, Andy Grace, sister-in-law, Ann Grace, her sister, Mary Ellen Reeder, 
her brothers-in-law, James Cotter and William Stonebrook. She is survived by 
her children, Gail (James Downs) Cotter, Mike (Sandra) Cotter, Jack (Patricia) 
Cotter, and Jane (Daniel) Pung, and grandchildren Erin (Victor) Cabral, Matt 
(Rachael) Downs, Maria Cotter, Tom Cotter, Grant Cotter, Padraic Cotter, Nick 
Pung, Andy Pung and Peri Pung, great grandchild, Zachary Cabral, her sister, 
Marguerite Stonebrook and sister-in-law, Mary Cotter and numerous nieces and 
nephews. 

In the years since John passed away, she has been attended to by many generous 
and giving friends which allow her to remain in her own home. She was, and her 
children continue to be, incredibly thankful.

Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated by Rev. Charlon Mason, Pastor, at 
11:00, Monday, March 24, 2014, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Pewamo, 
Michigan with Rite of Committal following at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in 
Pewamo. The family will receive friends from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Saturday and 
Sunday at the St. Mary's Funeral Chapel, 210 N. Westphalia Street, Westphalia. 
Rosaries will be prayed at 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday, and a 
Scriptural Wake Service held at 8 p.m. Sunday. Arrangements are entrusted to 
Lehman Funeral Homes, Portland. On line condolences may be made at 
www.lehmanfuneralhomes.com. 

Additional Comments:
Burial Monday, 24 March 2014
St. Joseph Cemetery - Pewamo

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