Born to George Dusenbury Rose and Nellie Elbertie Minor. Siblings were Mary Joy (Oak Hill Cemetery, San Jose, California), George Dwight(also Oak Hill),Helen and Albert (interred at Kimball Cemetery). Owen graduated from the University of South Dakota with a degree in engineering. After graduation he worked as an electrical engineer for the Duluth Telephone Company at Duluth, Minneapolis. A single man, he registered for military service June 5, 1917. He served in the field artillery, Second Training Company, Fort Monroe, Virginia. Died of pneumonia in France, his remains were laid to rest in the Rose family plot located in Kimball Cemetery, Kimball, South Dakota.
This obituary below is from a newspaper clipping found among the possessions of Mary Joy Rose after her death.
Owen M. Rose
The body of Lieut. Owen M. Rose arrived in Kimball from overseas last Thursday morning accompanied by Sergeant Crosby of Fort Crook near Omaha and taken to the Bowles undertaking rooms. The elegant rosewood casket was shrouded with a beautiful flag of the national colors for which the young man made the supreme sacrifice. At the head of the casket was an aluminum plate on which in raised letters bore the inscription: Rose, Owen M. 1st Lieut. Battery B. 69th C. A. C. G. R. 133 Gem 212 (The G. R. 133 Gem212 being the grave numerals and letters in France. Burial services in the afternoon were in charge of Drips Post and the body was laid in the family lot with full military honors. Rev J. W. Fifield of Chamberlain officiated in the religious ceremonies.
Lieutenant Rose, born in Brule county and raised in Kimball, entered one of training camps for officers at Fort Shelling, Minn., and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery.
This obituary below is from a newspaper clipping found among the possessions of Mary Joy Rose after her death.
Owen M. Rose
The body of Lieut. Owen M. Rose arrived in Kimball from overseas last Thursday morning accompanied by Sergeant Crosby of Fort Crook near Omaha and taken to the Bowles undertaking rooms. The elegant rosewood casket was shrouded with a beautiful flag of the national colors for which the young man made the supreme sacrifice. At the head of the casket was an aluminum plate on which in raised letters bore the inscription: Rose, Owen M. 1st Lieut. Battery B. 69th C. A. C. G. R. 133 Gem 212 (The G. R. 133 Gem212 being the grave numerals and letters in France. Burial services in the afternoon were in charge of Drips Post and the body was laid in the family lot with full military honors. Rev J. W. Fifield of Chamberlain officiated in the religious ceremonies.
Lieutenant Rose, born in Brule county and raised in Kimball, entered one of training camps for officers at Fort Shelling, Minn., and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery.
Born to George Dusenbury Rose and Nellie Elbertie Minor. Siblings were Mary Joy (Oak Hill Cemetery, San Jose, California), George Dwight(also Oak Hill),Helen and Albert (interred at Kimball Cemetery). Owen graduated from the University of South Dakota with a degree in engineering. After graduation he worked as an electrical engineer for the Duluth Telephone Company at Duluth, Minneapolis. A single man, he registered for military service June 5, 1917. He served in the field artillery, Second Training Company, Fort Monroe, Virginia. Died of pneumonia in France, his remains were laid to rest in the Rose family plot located in Kimball Cemetery, Kimball, South Dakota.
This obituary below is from a newspaper clipping found among the possessions of Mary Joy Rose after her death.
Owen M. Rose
The body of Lieut. Owen M. Rose arrived in Kimball from overseas last Thursday morning accompanied by Sergeant Crosby of Fort Crook near Omaha and taken to the Bowles undertaking rooms. The elegant rosewood casket was shrouded with a beautiful flag of the national colors for which the young man made the supreme sacrifice. At the head of the casket was an aluminum plate on which in raised letters bore the inscription: Rose, Owen M. 1st Lieut. Battery B. 69th C. A. C. G. R. 133 Gem 212 (The G. R. 133 Gem212 being the grave numerals and letters in France. Burial services in the afternoon were in charge of Drips Post and the body was laid in the family lot with full military honors. Rev J. W. Fifield of Chamberlain officiated in the religious ceremonies.
Lieutenant Rose, born in Brule county and raised in Kimball, entered one of training camps for officers at Fort Shelling, Minn., and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery.
This obituary below is from a newspaper clipping found among the possessions of Mary Joy Rose after her death.
Owen M. Rose
The body of Lieut. Owen M. Rose arrived in Kimball from overseas last Thursday morning accompanied by Sergeant Crosby of Fort Crook near Omaha and taken to the Bowles undertaking rooms. The elegant rosewood casket was shrouded with a beautiful flag of the national colors for which the young man made the supreme sacrifice. At the head of the casket was an aluminum plate on which in raised letters bore the inscription: Rose, Owen M. 1st Lieut. Battery B. 69th C. A. C. G. R. 133 Gem 212 (The G. R. 133 Gem212 being the grave numerals and letters in France. Burial services in the afternoon were in charge of Drips Post and the body was laid in the family lot with full military honors. Rev J. W. Fifield of Chamberlain officiated in the religious ceremonies.
Lieutenant Rose, born in Brule county and raised in Kimball, entered one of training camps for officers at Fort Shelling, Minn., and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery.
