Daughter of Arthur and Mary Dellinger Atwell, she married R. C. Rodda, lived in Franklin, died at Warren General Hospital of injuries received in the crash of truck driven by her husband, per death certificate 90004, whose informant was J. W. Rodda, Franklin. Buried Sep 18 1937.

The Franklin News-Herald, Thursday, Sep 16 1937:
Fatally injured when a truck driven by her husband left the Warren-Bradford road near Kinzua, Mrs. Aletha Rodda, 56, of 741 McCalmont Street, Rocky Grove, died in Warren General Hospital at 7:20 o'clock Wednesday evening, The truck struck a tree and Mrs. Rodda's husband, R. C. Rodda, told Coroner Ed Lowrey that another automobile had forced his truck off the highway. Mr, Rodda and two nephews, William Gilchrist, 20, and Donald Gilchrist, 21, of Harrisville, were injured in the accident. Donald remained in the hospital at Warren with a vertebra possibly fractured. The other two were discharges after being treated for cuts and bruises.

Relatives from Rocky Grove were summoned as son as the injured were taken to the hospital and were present when Mrs. Rodda died. She was conscious and able to recognize her kin.

The body was removed to a Warren undertaking establishment, but will be brought to her home, where services will he at 2 pm Saturday, in charges of Rev. P. R. Servey. Burial will be in the Franklin Cemetery.

She was born in Murrinsville, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Atwell. She is survived by her husband; a daughter, Mrs. James A. Neely of Rocky Grove; two sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Margaret Critchlow, Harrisville, Mrs. Henry D. Kightlinger, Rocky Grove, William Atwell, Aberdeen, WA, George Atwell, Tidioute.

She was a member of the United Presbyterian Church at Clintonville, but since her removal from Tidioute to Rocky Grove, about 22 years ago, she attended the Grace Evangelical Church and was a member of the Good Samaritan Class.