Sister Mary Rose Rexin
Sister Mary Rexin, also known as Sister Mary Rose, age 89, of New Rockford, ND, died Thursday, January 2, 2014, at Lutheran Home of the Good Shepherd, New Rockford, ND. Mary Catherine Rexin was born on June 5, 1924, in Detroit, MI, the daughter of Frank and Sadie (Herman) Rexin. She grew up in Detroit and attended St. Catherine’s School for elementary, then Barbour Public High School. She worked various jobs in the Detroit area. In the early 1950’s, she entered St. Joseph’s Convent in Kalamazoo, MI. She left the Convent and again worked for companies in the Detroit area. She later moved with her mother to Necedah, WI, and became associated with Queen of the Holy Rosary Shrine. They moved to New Rockford in the early 1990’s where she was a member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church. In the most recent years, she has become an active participant of the St. John’s Catholic Church Parish in New Rockford. She entered Lutheran Home of the Good Shepherd on September 18, 2009. The practice of her faith was very important to her. Mary is survived by her only sister, Therese Green, Grosse Ile, MI, several nieces and nephews, and great nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by one brother Francis and two sisters Joan Chesney and Patricia Roose.
FUNERAL MASS: St. John's Catholic Church, New Rockford, ND DATE AND TIME: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 at 10:30AM BURIAL: St. John's Catholic Cemetery, New Rockford, ND
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Name: Margaret Ann
Date: Dec 25 2017
Message: Merry soon to be Christmas, I want to wish you a Merry Christmas. Jeanette, Sylvia, Brother Bernard and I love you always. Please pray for My mother,Â? I am using all of you as my intercessory.
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Name: Margaret Coleman
Date: Jan 09, 2014
Message: Sonya & Dave - I loved what you wrote to Sister. And that cookie in her hand is so Sister. She loved chocolate and she loved ice cream & soda. And she did make lovely cakes. Those doll cakes she made and that icing she made for her cakes were honey & powered sugar butter and anise. She would make those lamb cakes for Priest & for Baptism as well as for Easter Sunday. She loved Pepperidge coconut cake. Sister is holy and she was a very smart business woman and she took no mess from anyone. She was strict in so many ways. People loved coming up to her to compliment her in her Traditional habit, when ever she did her shopping at Walmart. We attended St. Michael Church at St. Michael reservation for 10 years and we had the privilege to hear Mass from one of the priest who we were related to. What a joy to hear Mass from Fr Joachim as well as Fr Paul. They too were Franciscan. We also had Fr George from the Byzantine rite say Mass in the church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help !
 Church as well as her chapel. I shall miss The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the priest who said the Mass & I shall always miss The Mass of Fr Mclaughin. There was no comparison.
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Name: Sonya Williams
Date: 01/08/2014
Message: Hello Sister, Today is the day of your funeral. I called your sister Therese, how comforting it was hear her voice. I feel like you are reading my messages to you. Please forgive me for saying if only you could have held on. I just feel like there was something that could have been done to make you well again. I am just grieving and speak how I feel. It was a blessing having you to confide in and to be able to turn to you for spiritual guidance and advice. You are a great loss to us all. I miss you so very much and will ALWAYS remember you. Forever in my heart you will be, Sonya   Â
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Name: Dave Roose
Date: Jan 7th 2014
Message: My dear Aunt Mary, was sad and surprised to hear of your passing. I am so grateful and appreciative for our last visit during this past Thanksgiving and sharing family news with you on your many nieces and nephews. Thank you for all the wonderful childhood memories growing up. The many beautiful cakes and pastries and specialty doll cakes you made for my sister Karen and cousins Debbie and Maureen. I always got to lick the spoon and pans :-) when you were done creating your masterpieces! Thanks for sharing so many things and memories growing up and I couldn't have ask for a better Godmother.
Thank you for the prayers over the years too for me and my family.
I will come visit you again next time I'm up in North Dakota at St. John's Catholic Cemetery.
All my love and always in my prayers,
Your Godson and nephew
Dave Roose
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Name: Sonya
Date: 01/06/2014
Message: Oh sister, Had I never left New Rockford you'd still be alive!!! How lonely you must have felt. I was supposed to be there to take care of you. If only you could have held on a little longer or I could have been there sooner or never left you at all. Please forgive me for not coming to your aide. I wanted to be there at your side see your little happy face and smile with you. I miss you and have for a long time now. I will always remember watching movies with you and eating your favorite pizza and coconut cake (smile) You are so very special to me Sister. You were like my very own Nun. Speaking of Nuns, I always wondered if you still had that little nun doll that I bought for you. It was just as precious as you are (another smile) Yep you will always be my special little nun that I know without a doubt is watching over me from Heaven. Thank you Sister for everything you have done for me, touching my life in so many different ways. I love you Sister Mary Rose, more than anyone knows.
Forever all my love, Sonya Dee Â
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Name: margaret coleman
Date: 1/6/14
Message: I am so glad I spent Christmas with you Sister I loved it when your eyes lit up when you saw the Christmas tree I brought you. You were like a little girl and so innocent in your expression. Thank you for asking me to read the Three Beautiful Prayers over you as you took me by surprise on that. I really wanted you well so you could be with us. I promise to do what you asked of me as you are my Precious friend. And remember what I always said to you. You are a Jewel in a crown a True Nun of the Traditional Catholic Faith. And it was an honor to be with you the 20 years we spent together, until so many of us got bad off as we too are going in age. I love how you loved the Blessed Mother so much and always called on her saying Mother help me, in all things. We have so much time we had spent together non stop for 15 years until aches and pain took over. I love you deeply. I have not stopped believing in you Sister. And I do believe in so much. My children love you. Thank you for all the prayers you said for my family. All those long days in the Chapel. I loved the time we spent Christmas in Minot Christmas shopping for your shoes. So much to say and so many things we went through, together. Echo Sonya and Sara had that precious moment of talking to you on December 22nd expressing their love for you. What a blessing and an emotional time that was for all of us. I want to thank Angela and Eric for the times they took me to see you when I could. I always missed you when I left and I am missing you now. Thank you for sharing all the visions you had with me I miss hearing them and forever loved talking about them. Most of all I believe in you and that will forever be.
love Margaret Ann
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