2011 Summer Newsletter

Moving of the Wagon Prior to the coming exhibit that focused on early Miami County History which opened on May 9th, the 1865 .JMMFS XBHPO IBE UP CF NPWFE GSPN JUT EJTQMBZ BSFB JO UIF UIJSE CVJMEJOH UP UIF ĕ STU CVJMEJOH XIJDI XBT OP easy task. With the help of Junior Ayers and Bernice Chitwood, we dismantled the nearly 150 year old wagon, DBSSJFE UIF NBJO CPEZ UP UIF ĕ STU CVJMEJOH BOE SFBTTFNCMFE #Z UIF UJNF XF IBE HPUUFO UIF XBHPO EPOF BMM three were covered in sweat and old axle grease. If one spends a little time in the museum, one would quickly realize that nothing gets done without our dedicated volunteers.

In loving memory of Isabel Rohrer February 23, 1919~March 31, 2011 Funeral Service: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 2:00 PM Penwell-Gabel - Paola Chapel Interment: Paola Cemetery Paola, Kansas Isabel Rohrer age 92of Paola passed away March 31 at the Life Care Center in 0TBXBUPNJF Bę FS B MPOH JMMOFTT Memorials to the Miami County Historical and Genealogy Museum. Isabel was born February 23, 1919 on the Rohrer family farm in Stanton Town ship, daughter of Frederick E. and Pearle Lane Rohrer.

She attended Mound Valley School District 81. She graduated from Osawat omie High School in 1936 and then attended Ursuline Academy College in Paola. Isabel worked in Kansas City for Methodist Publishing House and Jeanerette Portrait Studio. She was later employed at the Osawatomie State hospital and then the John Brown Museum in Osawatomie. Isabel was interested in tracing her families’ ancestry. Isabel attended the 100th annual Rohrer family reunion in Goshen, Indiana in 2006. She did a lot of traveling and visited all 50 states, and Canada nine times, and in 1995 traveled to the rain forest in Peru. Isabel was an advocate for preservation of native prairie grassland. She had many hobbies including, oil painting, photogra QIZ Ę PXFST HBSEFOJOH TFXJOH BOE CJSE XBUDIJOH BOE FOKPZFE QBSUJDJQBUJOH JO CJSE DPVOUT Isabel is preceded in death by her parents, two brothers Frederick E. Rohrer Jr., and Daryl D. Rohrer and two sisters, Re becca Rohrer and Helen Barnett and great niece Alyssa Sherman. She is survived by seven nieces and nephews and their families, cousin Bernice Cuthbertson and sister-in law Marie Rohrer. She will be greatly missed by family and friends. Page 9