Bio for KOESSLER, Rose Catherine Hendel (b.1883 d.1952), Nobles Co., MN ======================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find the submitter information or other files for this county. FileFormat by Terri--MNArchives Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Bob Arens Submitted: August 2005 ======================================================================== (From The Hendel Family History and Genealogy by Julie R. Okenfuss dated May 8, 2000.) ROSE CATHERINE HENDEL KOESSLER (1883-1952) Rose Hendel was the eleventh and last child of Phillip Hendel and Catherine Busch. She was born on 28 February 1883 in Caledonia, Minnesota. She lived with her family until her marriage to Edward E. Koessler on 10 February 1904 in Lismore, Minnesota. He was born the 22 September 1880 in Ackley, Iowa and is listed as John Edward on his baptismal record in the St. Mary, s Church record in Ackley, Iowa. Rose and Edward had ten children, eight of whom were born i11 Lismore, where Edward was engaged in farming. For several years Edward operated a grocery and meat market with Casper Hendel, Rose's older brother. In September 1920 the family moved to Mt. Angel, Oregon, because of the climate, productive land, and good Catholic schools. Mt. Angel is located in the beautiful Willamette Valley, seventeen miles from Salem, Oregon, with a population in 1987 of about 2900. Edward's sister and her large Hoffer family had moved there in 1918 and encouraged the Koesslers to make the move. The Koesslers then had two more children who were born in Mt. Angel. They farmed there lmtil1934 when they moved to Woodburn, Oregon, where they lived until their deaths. A Benedictine convent and a monastery are located in Mt. Angel and that is the order that three of the children joined: Marcella (Sr. Imelda, O.S.B.) (1905-1981), Edward (Fr. James, O.S.B.) (1907-1968), and Eva (Sr. Rose, O.S.B.) (1921). Two children of Rose and Edward died young: Vivien (1910-1910) and John (1915-1917). The other children are: Fides (1909-1945), Raphael (1912-1969) who married Gladys Ferschweiler (1916-1977) in 1940, lived in Portland, Oregon, and had two children; Rosamond (1916-1987) married Clarence Hendricks (1913) in 1938, lived in Stayton, Oregon, and had twelve children; Rita (1919) married Milo Schneider (1914) in 1939, lives in St. Paul, Oregon, and hasten children; and Grace (1922-1993) married James Steffen (1919) in 1947, lived in Portland, Oregon, and had two children. Rose died 19 Jan 1952 and Edward died 6 June 1941. There area total of twenty-six grandchildren and 44 great-grandchildren of Rose and Edward Koessler as of 1989.