Obituary: Maria Rosario ‘Rose’ Gutierrez

by Special to the Herald Times on October 10, 2014

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Maria Rosario “Rose” Gutierrez lived for the day she would meet her God, and the day came peacefully on Monday, Sept. 29, 2014, as a resident of the Walbridge Wing in Meeker, Colo.

Rose was born to Estevan and Sophia Gallegos on Oct. 7, 1924, the fifth of eight siblings, in Trujillo, N.M., where she was raised.
Rose had an elementary education, yet taught herself to speak, read and write in English, her…