Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rapelje, Rose Marie 1997 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net July 1, 2011, 7:07 pm The Hastings Banner, May 1997 Rose Marie Rapelje, 73, of West Palm Beach, Florida passed away Thursday, May 8, 1997 at her residence. She was born October 31, 1923 in Mt. Pleasant, the daughter of Ernest and Sarah (Pease) Goldbecker. She graduated from Mt. Pleasant High School in 1943. She married Othal Hilliker in 1947 in Lansing. He passed away in 1953. She was married to Ronald Rapelje whom she later divorced. Mrs. Rapelje lived in Mt. Pleasant and Lansing before moving to Lake Odessa in 1957. While living here she worked at Pennock Hospital as a dietitian. In 1969 she moved to Lyons where she worked at Chrysler Motors until 1974. In 1974 she moved to Detroit where she lived until 1982 when she moved to Florida. Mrs. Rapelje is survived by a longtime companion, Albert Shelby; three daughters, Jane (Steve) Quick of Grand Rapids, Sandra Johnson of Lake Odessa, and Pamela Witzel of West Palm Beach, Florida; one son, James (Jackie) Hilliker of Jupiter, Florida; fifteen grandchildren; fourteen great grandchildren; five sisters, Lois Curtis of Mt. Pleasant, Joan Black of Riverdale, Nancy Weslyn of Evart, Patricia Koch of California and Linda Rogers of Washington State; and two brothers, Keith Goldbecker of Washington State and Donald Goldbecker of Florida. Funeral services were held Tuesday, May 13, 1997 at the Koops Funeral Chapel in Lake Odessa. Reverend Ward Pierce officiated. Burial took place at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens in Lansing. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/r/rapelje14058nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb