Rita Marie (Vogel) Strope, daughter of Frank and Louise (Cook) Vogel, was born January 23, 1925 at Germantown, Missouri. She passed away October 15, 2005 at Sac-Osage Hospital in Osceola, Missouri.
Rita lived her entire life in the Germantown, Montrose and Appleton City area. She attended school at St. Ludger's School at Germantown. Her mother passed away when she was 17, and she being the oldest daughter, cared for her father and siblings for several years.
Rita was married February 23, 1949 to Vincent Strope at St. Ludger's Catholic Church in Germantown and to this union five children were born. They lived their married life in Montrose and Appleton City, Missouri, celebrating 52 years together in February of 2001.
Mrs. Strope was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Montrose, and was a past member of the Ladies Sodality. She spent her life as a home maker, wife and mother.
Rita was preceded in death by her devoted and loving husband, Vinnie, in 2001; her parents, Frank and Louise Vogel; her brothers, Eugene, Erwin and Marcellus Vogel; and her sister, Mary Ellen Jurgensmeyer.
She will be sadly missed by her five children: Linda and husband Larry Wilson of Flemington, Missouri, Donna and husband Clifford Foster of Montrose, Missouri, Joyce and husband Ron Noland of Fordland, Missouri, Jean and husband John Denney of Huntsville, Alabama and Leroy Strope and wife Ronda of Appleton City, Missouri; 13 grandchildren: Lynn Wilson, Tiffany Harrison, Brett Foster, Lesley Guillot, Nicki Sparks, Brooke Bojko, Jessie and Ronni Noland, Teresa and Tara Denney, Shelly Koehler, and Adam and Erin Strope; eight great-grandchildren: Hunter and Avery Wilson, Olivia Harrison, Allie, Noah and Sophia Sparks, Shawn Guillot and Brock Koehler. Rita also leaves one sister, Betty Kniffin, of Lenexa, Kansas; four brothers: Cecil, Raymond and Bob Vogel all of Montrose, and Paul Vogel of Kansas City; two sisters-in-law, Mary Vogel of Kansas City, Missouri and Beatrice Vogel of Montrose, Missouri.