MINARD FAY ROSE
25 Sep 1900 -May 1974

Retired TSC professor dies; rites Sunday, May 
29, 1974 newspaper

	Funeral services for Minard F. Rose, 73, of 600 South 
Darling Street, Angola, a retired Tri-State College professor, 
were conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Weicht Funeral Home.
	Reverend Ronald Walters, pastor of the Angola Church of 
Christ, officiated at the rites. Internment followed in Powers 
Cemetery, York Township.
	Rose died early Friday in the Elmhurst Hospital, Angola.
	When Professor Rose retired in 1967 after 30 years on 
the faculty at Tri-State College, the Board of Trustees 
honored him with the rank of Professor Emeritus.  A teacher in 
the Mathematics and Engineering Mechanics Department, he had 
an A. B. degree from Hiram College and B. S. Degree from Tri-
State College. Rose also attended the University of Chicago, 
University of Michigan, and Purdue University.
	Before coming to Tri-State, Rose taught in the Ashley 
school system from 1930 to 1936.
	He was born in Indiana on September 25, 1900, to Jay O. 
and Edith (Fay) Rose.
	He was a member of the Society of Engineers, Ashley 
Masonic Lodge and the Angola Church of Christ where he served 
as elder, church secretary and a teacher for many years.
	His wife, the former Virginia Franz, and a brother, John 
Wendell Rose, of Auburn, survive. 

The above information was found in Book #16 in the black 
notebook collection, #1 through #22, compiled by Audree Siebel 
Lewis, located at the Angola Public Library, Angola, Indiana.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Minard Fay Rose was the son of Jay Overrocker Rose, 03 Nov 
1864 - 1941, and Edith M. (Fay) Rose, 1872 - 1961, daughter of 
David and Nancy C. (Ocker) Fay. He married Virginia (Franz) 
Rose.
Brother, John Wendall Powers Rose was born 19 Nov 1906 and 
died 20 Jun 1984.

"Cemeteries of Steuben Co., Ind., 1990" by Audree Siebel 
Lewis, Vol. II, pages 1555, 1556, 1557, and Powers Family 
History, page 164.