Bonnie Beryl Van De Rostyne
Friday, April 12, 1929
Date of Death:
Sunday, December 1, 2019
Age:
90 years old
Visitation
Date: Monday December 16, 2019
Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Funeral Service
Date: Monday December 16, 2019
Time: 11:00 am
Location: River Park Chapel at Macken Funeral Home [ view map ]
Friday, April 12, 1929
Date of Death:
Sunday, December 1, 2019
Age:
90 years old
Friday, April 12, 1929
Date of Death:
Sunday, December 1, 2019
Age:
90 years old
Bonnie Beryl Van De Rostyne
Bonnie Beryl Elliott was born at home in Hanson County, SD on April 12, 1929. Mother Grace (Walz) Elliott, father Irvan Elliott and brother Delmar welcomed her wholeheartedly. After Irvan’s death in 1932, the family moved into a small house on her father’s farm. Bonnie attended Notre Dame Academy in Mitchell, SD, on scholarship and graduated with top honors (1946) while working at a WW II agricultural factory. She then attended Nettleton Business College in Sioux Falls, SD until her marriage to WJ (Joe) Van De Rostyne on August 26, 1947. They resided in Sioux Falls, SD until moving to Aberdeen SD in 1962. She was widowed in 2006, moved to Rochester in 2017 and lived in Madonna Meadows and Towers until her death on December 1, 2019. In addition to being a devoted wife and mother, raising her large family and volunteering in her community and church, she began working as a bookkeeper and eventually became an award-winning saleswoman of advertising specialties, including a cruise and a trip to Germany. She worked as an election judge for many years. She retired at 75, and she and Joe greatly enjoyed their grandchildren, wintering in Arizona, reading, fishing at their lake “place”, playing cards and games, and travel.
She was a devout, committed Catholic, and she considered her nine children her “magnum opus” and thought of and prayed for all her family daily. She is survived by: Margaret (Gustave Miller), Pamela (Edvin), Joseph (Linda), Paul (Linda), Catherine, Gregory (Melinda), Robert (Debbie), Richard (Brenda), and Thomas (Julia); 12 grandchildren: Melissa, Nathan, Eric (Brianna), Carlee, Nicholas, Jessica (Paul), Zachary (Kristi), Brian, Eliza (Chris), Olivia, Ezekiel, and Abigail, and 9 great-grandchildren: Robyn and Remy (Melissa), Elliott and Cara (Eric), Ethan and Miles (Zachary), Aiden and Benson (Eliza), and Adalyn (Ezekiel), and a brother-in-law Gary Van De Rostyne, and many nieces and nephews.
Preceding her in death are her husband, her father and mother, her infant brother (Jackie), her brother Delmar, brothers-in-law Maurice Evans and Donald Van De Rostyne and sisters-in-law Wilma Elliott, Lorraine (Van De Rostyne) Evans, and Nyla Van De Rostyne, and nephews Donnie Joe and Steven Van De Rostyne.
Memorials are preferred to the Madonna Living Community Foundation of Rochester, MN or the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Mayo Clinic.
Visitation will be at 10 AM at Macken Funeral Home in Rochester MN with a service beginning at 11 AM on Monday, December 16, 2019. Memorials are preferred to the Madonna Living Community Foundation of Rochester, MN or the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Mayo Clinic.
Condolences
The family of Bonnie Beryl Van De Rostyne has received the following condolences.
My thoughts and prayers are with the Van De Rostyne family during this difficult time. What a remarkable lady. Thank you for sharing your mother with us at Madonna Living Community.
My thoughts and prayers are with you all. Find strength in each other as you grieve the loss of your Mother.
Audrey Wala Jadczak
Dear Family of Bonnie Van De Rostyne,
You have my deep empathy at this time of the death of
you mother/grandmother. Bonnie always lit up my life
with her smiling eye contact. She loved all of you/us. I
look forward to seeing her again in life beyond life as we
know it now.
I taught you, Tom, and remember you, Margaret and Carrie.
Love & prayer,
Sr. Mary Lou Geraets
Peace to you all as grief becomes your companion.
Bonnie was my mentor, a humble guide who gave me loving and practical advice on child rearing. Above all, she was a constant friend who with husband Joe welcomed the Miller family to Aberdeen in 1965. She forever lives in my mind and heart as an example of Woman...Holy and Blessed!