Rosemary Harriet (Hulse) Dageforde, 79, died June 15, at Parkview Haven Nursing Home in Deshlers.

She was born Sept. 26, 1941, in Geneva, Neb. to Harry and Therese (Wilhelms) Hulse. Rosemary’s family lived in Geneva until she was five. Her father was a deputy sheriff and later sheriff of Fillmore County. She often told stories of living in the sheriff’s quarters attached to the jail where she would carry food with her mother to the prisoners and occasionally play cards with them.

After her father died in 1946, her mother taught in the grade schools of Ohiowa and Bruning. Rosemary...