Posted on: PaloAlto County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ia/PaloAltoObits/506 Surname: Crook, Clare, Hill, Murphy, Kaska ------------------------- Rose A. Crook dies Wednesday,September 29, 1982, services Friday. Mrs Lowell R. (Rose A.) Crook of 426 S. 5th Ave. W., a resident of Newton,Iowa since 1928, died Wednesday evening at the Embassy Manor Nursing Home. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Father William Kaska ,pastor of the church ,will conduct the services. Burial will be in the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery. Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. today at the Wallace Funeral Home. Survivors are five sons, Clifford of California and Cal,Kenneth,Bernard and Jim,all of Newton ; a daughter Myrna Hill of Newton ; 16 grandchildren; and 29 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Lowell in 1943, two children in infancy and 13 brothers and sisters. Mrs Crook,a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, had worked at the Maytag Co., had owned and operated " Mom's Place" for a number of years and had been a teacher in Emmet County for several years. The daughter of Christopher S. and Rose Ann Murphy Clare, she was born in rural Palo Alto County. She was married in Emmetsburg.