Violet
Rokke, 82
New
Hope - Violet Rokke, 82, died Sunday, February
24, 2002.
Services
were held Thursday, March 1, at 10:30 a.m. at El
Milagro: The Miracle Lutheran Church in
Minneapolis. Interment was in Pleasantview Cemetery
in Burnsville with Henry W. Anderson Mortuary of
Minneapolis in charge of the
arrangements.
Myrtle
Violet Slattum was born on October 15, 1919 in New
Maine Township of Marshall County, the daughter of
Louis P. and Elsie Slattum. At a young age, she
went to live with Halvor and Gunhild Amundson in
West Valley Township. Violet attended Woodland
School and Newfolden High School, graduating as
valedictorian in 1939.
On
August 15, 1946, she married Einar Rokke of
Newfolden in Fargo, N.D. The couple moved to
Minneapolis in 1947. Violet worked at various
secretarial jobs prior to the birth of her first
child in 1951. She returned to work part-time in
1970, working until her retirement. At the time of
her death, she was residing at St. Therese Home in
New Hope.
Violet
was a member of St. Luke's Lutheran Church where
she was active in the Eunice Circle and
WELCA.
Survivors
include two sons, Brian (Diane) Rokke of Newfolden
and Jerome (Jean) Rokke of Minneapolis; and six
grandchildren.
Violet
was preceded in death by her husband; three
brothers, Haakon, Vivian, and Charles; two sisters,
Lulie Korgen and Eva Cacabelos; four foster
brothers, Adolph, Carl, Halbert, and Oscar
Amundson; a foster sister, Betsy Hjelle; and a
daughter-in-law, Ingrid. A00003B2002MR06
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