With the upsurge of COVID-19 we request all who attend the Visitation, Rosary  and/or Funeral Mass for Rosie wear a mask to the church.  Please respect the social distancing rules and think of others' safety as well as your own.  Please sit with proper 6 foot spacing between pews.  We appreciate your cooperation and courtesy at this time.

The FUNERAL MASS for Rosie will begin at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, October 8, 2020 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Montrose, Missouri.

OFFICIATING at Mass will be Father Tom Hermes.

VISITATION and ROSARY will precede Mass with Visitation from 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. followed by Rosary at 10:30 - 11:00 a.m.

INTERMENT in St. Mary's Cemetery, Montrose, Missouri.

Rosie requested any MEMORIAL donations be given to St. Mary's Cemetery or Immaculate Conception Catholic Church.

Rosie Christena (Kantner) Boden was born on December 14, 1918 two miles west of Clinton, Missouri.  She was the daughter of Edward and Mary Anna Elizabeth (Grasher) Kantner.  God called her to His heavenly home on October 2, 2020 at the age of 101.

Rosie attended the White School that was 1¼ miles from her home.  She didn't like school, so the teacher pushed her through two years in one, to her mother's dismay.

Rosie's dad died when she was sixteen.  She was the youngest of four children.  Her brother and sisters were already married, so from that time until she married, she took over most of the outside work.  When her sister, Sophie's husband died, she and her three children, ages one, two, and three moved in with Rosie and their mother.  Sophie, her sister Margie, and their mother did a lot of quilting and Rosie assumed even more responsibilities.

Rosie was united in marriage to John Boden on February 11, 1947 at the Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Clinton, Missouri.  Rosie and her husband spent the first three years on the Fred Darnell place, which John was already renting.  In 1948, they purchased 100 acres west of the Darnell place from Lee Heiman.  It was a very run-down property.  When John's brother, Leroy, returned home from the army, he moved in with them, helped renovate the house, build new fences and a shed.  They moved from the Darnell place to that house in 1950.  In 1959, when they had enough money saved to pay for it, they built a new house.

Rosie and her husband worked side-by-side on the farm.  In 1962 they started buying and drying fescue seed and continued this business for several years.  Rosie weighed in the trucks and was the bookkeeper.  Big piles of fescue seed could be seen from the highway.

After John's death in 1996, Rosie remained on the farm until July of 2011, when she chose to move to the assisted living facility in Appleton City, Missouri.

Rosie was an active member of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Montrose, and a member of the Altar Sodality.  Every week she made sure all the prayer books were neatly in their proper places and the Holy Water fonts were cleaned and filled.  She volunteered to do this until she was well past 90.

Rosie had many interests.  She loved people and visiting with them.  She drove herself to the library in Clinton, where she spent countless hours researching family history.  When a project was completed, she compiled the pages into a folder with the family's names on the front and made the number copies each family requested.  Numerous families benefited from this hobby.

Rosie drove her own car until she was 96.  She loved eating out and driving around the countryside, looking at the crops and many other things that she found interesting.

Rosie was always up for a card game.  Her favorite games were the six handed pinochle games with the Goth family.  These games usually went into the morning hours and Rosie was never the one to say, "We need to quit."  One time after she had moved to the assisted living facility, she was reported "missing" at the bedtime check.  The shift change nurse had failed to tell the next shift that Rosie had gone out.  After several phone calls, she was located at one of the late night card games.

Rosie was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her brother Andrew Kantner; her sisters, Sophie (Kantner) Oswald and Margie (Kantner) Gieselman; sisters-in-law, Kathryn (Boden) Wagner and husband Bernard, Mary (Boden) Putthoff and husband Clifford, Clara Mae (Boden) Greufe and husband George, Florence (Boden) Talley and husband Earl, Eleanor (Boden) Seaton and husband Raymond; brothers-in-law, Raymond Boden and wife Mary Ellen, Leroy Boden and Burnell Story.

Survivors include Harold Boden and wife Elaine, Rose (Boden) Story and Esther (Boden) Douglas and husband Dean, a host of nieces, nephews, and friends.