Funeral services for Mildred "Millie" Rohe were held Friday, March 4, 2005 at 10:30 a.m. at the Sacred Heart Church in Manning, Iowa. Reverend Andrew Hoffman was the celebrant with music provided by the Sacred Heart Choir with Sherri Loughran as vocalist and Pat Heithoff as organist. Ray Thielen was lector and John Rohe was Eucharistic Minister. Mass servers were Trista Wurr and McKaylie Croghan. Gift bearers were her granddaughters: Tina Spain, Stacy Rohe, Elizabeth Hoyt, Cassie Rohe, Brienna Rohe, Kristina Nunez, and Ashley Howe. Interment was held in the Sacred Heart Cemetery in Templeton, Iowa with grandsons as casketbearers: Todd Rohe, Nate Rohe, Nick Rohe, Jamey Voege, Bryan Rohe, Chad Rohe, Matt Rohe, Josh Rohe, Zach Rohe, Jayson Rohe, Jeremy Rohe, Jesse Rodden, Michael Rodden, Jerrett Howe and Buddy Nunez.

Mildred Josephine, daughter of Herman and Katherine (Kraus) Venteicher, was born March 19, 1927, on the farm near Willey, Iowa. She attended school in Willey through the eighth grade.

On September 16, 1947, Millie was united in marriage with Glenn August Rohe at St. Mary's Church in Willey. Eight sons were born to this union. Millie was a homemaker on their farm in Ewoldt Township, Carroll County, near Manning. Her husband died July 1, 1967, and Millie did a wonderful job of raising her boys on her own. They moved to an acreage north of Manning and in the late 1970s moved into town. She worked at L.R. Nelson Manufacturing and later in the Manning Regional Healthcare Center Dietary Department. She retired in 1990. There was additional tragedy in Millie's life with the death of a teenage son in an automobile accident and the death of another son in an accident while working overseas in North Yemen.

Millie was a member of Sacred Heart Parish in Manning. She enjoyed sewing, baking, crocheting and, above all, her grandchildren.

Mildred was recovering well from recent hip surgery and enjoying life when she died suddenly and unexpectedly early March 1, 2005, at her home in Manning. She was 77 years, 11 months and 10 days of age.

Preceding Millie in death are her parents; husband Glenn; two sons Darwin and Dean; brothers Albert, Louis, and Leonard Venteicher and two sisters Hilda Bierl and Leona Schmitz.

She is survived by six sons: Dennis Rohe and Joanna of Wills Point, TX; David Rohe and wife Kathy of Manning; Donald Rohe and wife Sandy of Carroll; Dale Rohe and wife Diane of Carroll; Douglas Rohe and wife Timmy of Goose Creek, SC; and Daniel Rohe and wife Penny of Fulton, MO; 22 grandchildren; 5 great-grandchildren; brother Ed Venteicher of Manning and two sisters Collette "Cookie" and husband Otmar Fischer of Algona and Lorraine Irlbeck of Templeton; sister-in-law Armella Venteicher of Arcadia; two brothers-in-law Vernon Rohe and wife Vi of Manning and Gene Rohe and wife Leona of Manning; nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends