Dean Rohe

DEAN ROHE Funeral services for Dean Rohe, 24, are tentatively set for Monday, June 22, at Sacred Heart Church in Manning. Ohde Funeral Home in Manning is handling the arrangements. Burial will be in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Templeton, Iowa. He was a 1982 graduate of Manning High School.

Survivors include his mother, Mildred Rohe, of Manning; six brothers, Dennis, Dale, and Daniel, all of Texas, Dave of Manning, Donald of Council Bluffs, and Staff Sergeant Doug Rohe of Belgium; and his grandmother, Ella Rohe, of Templeton.

Dean Wayne Rohe, son of Glenn and Mildred (Venteicher) Rohe, was born March 26, 1963.

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Mass of the Christian burial for Dean Wayne Rohe, 24, formerly of Manning, was held today at 1 p.m. at Sacred Heart Church in Manning. Celebrant was the Rev. Ralph Reinhart, and lector was Tom Rohe.

Burial was in the Sacred Heart Cemetery in Templeton.

Casket bearers were Daryl Rohe, Mike Rohe, John Rohe, Jim Venteicher, Gary Venteicher and Steven Irlbeck.

Mr. Rohe died Sunday, June 14, 1987, about 48 miles northeast of San'a at Wadi El Jowl in the Yemen Arab Republic when he and a co-worker stopped to pick up a piece of luggage on the roadside on their way to repair a vehicle. The luggage contained a bomb that exploded and killed both men.

Officials theorize the bomb was left by members of one of the local tribes and was intended for members of a rival tribe.

Mr. Rohe was born March 26, 1963, in Carroll, the son of Glenn A. and Mildred J. (Venteicher) Rohe. He made his home with his family in Manning.

He attended Manning schools and graduated from Manning High School in 1982. He attended Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs.

Since October 1983, was employed as a mechanic by Western Geophysical, an oil exploration firm. He worked overseas with this company in many areas in Africa and the Middle East. At the time of his death, he was working out of San'a, the capital city of the Red Sea country of Yemen Arab Republic.

He is survived by his mother, Mildred, of Manning; six brothers: Dennis of Terrell, Texas; David Rohe and his wife, Kathy, of Manning; Donald Rohe, and his wife, Sandra, of Council Bluffs; Dale Rohe and his wife, Diane, of Terrell, Texas; Tech. Sgt. Douglas Rohe and his wife, Suzanne, of Chievres Air Base In Belgium; Daniel Rohe of Fort Worth, Texas; and his grandmother, Mrs. Ella Rohe of Templeton.

He was preceded in death by his father, Glenn, in 1967; a brother, Darwin, in 1982; his paternal grandfather, Walter Rohe, and by his maternal grandparents, Herman and Katherine Venteicher.