July 13, 2011

CROGHAN, N.Y.   —  Beulah Roggie, 76, of Swiss Road, died unexpectedly Wednesday morning at her home. 

A funeral service will be held 10:30 a.m. Monday, July 18, at the Croghan Mennonite Church with the ministry of the church officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Calling hours will be held 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday, July 17, at the church.  

Arrangements have been entrusted to the Adirondack Funeral Home, Croghan.

Born July 30, 1934, in Naumburg, daughter of Alvin and Vera Moser Zehr, she attended  Beaver River Central High School and graduated from the House of the Good Samaritan Nursing School. 

She married Merle Roggie on Aug. 10, 1960, at the Croghan Mennonite Church by the Rev. Lloyd Boshart. 

Mrs. Roggie was employed at Lewis County General Hospital for many years, worked at Lewis County Hospice and Public Health. 

She was a member of the Croghan Mennonite Church where she taught Sunday school, Summer Bible School, worked in the kitchen serving meals and was active in Dorcas Sisters Sewing Circle. She served on the board at Steepleview and volunteered at the Agape Shop.

Mrs. Roggie enjoyed traveling, knitting, reading, walking, gardening, spending time with her children grandchildren and great grandchildren and serving others.

She is survived by her husband of Croghan, two sons and their wives, Myron and Julie, Croghan; and Brent and Sherri, North East, Pa.; two daughters and their husbands, LuAnn and Myron Zehr and Valerie and Robert Keefer, all of Croghan; five brothers and four sisters-in-law, Paul and Mary, Lancaster, Pa., Arthur, Potsdam, Alvin Jr. and Irene, David and Mary and Lloyd and Jane, all of Croghan; eight sisters and five brothers-in-law, Pearl, Croghan, Lena, Lancaster, Pa., LeEtta and Albert Owens and Maurice and Mary Graves, Castorland, Adeline Knetchel, Mannsville, Eunice and Beryl Gingerich, Lowville, Elizabeth and Roger Crassi, Williamsville, N.Y., Vera and Stanley Ferguson, Cincinnati, Ohio; two uncles, Vernon Zehr, New Bremen and Michael Moser, Beaver Falls, four sisters-in-law, Eileen Zehr, Croghan, Belva Zehr, Martinsburg, Pauline Zehr, New Bremen, and Elma Ebersole, 12 grandchildren, two great- grandchildren, nieces, nephews and cousins.

A grandson Darrin, four brothers, Richard, Kenneth, Joseph and Mark, and a sister, Ellen Martin, all died before her.

In place of flowers, memorial donations in her memory may be made to a charity of one’s choice.

Online condolences may be made at www.adirondackfh.com.

Information provided by Adirondack Funeral Home and Newzjunky, Watertown, N.Y.