Margaret June Rodewald – Freese

Margaret June Rodewald – Freese 

Margaret, formerly of the Snoqualmie Valley, passed away on September 11, 2013 at Arizona Hospice in Peoria, Arizona. She was born June 10, 1920 in the Orchard housing complex at Snoqualmie Falls, WA to Frank and Margaret (DeBoer) Nichols.

Her family moved around the Pacific Northwest some, as Frank worked for the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. She attended school in several locations, North Bend, Snoqualmie, Olympia, Tenino & Vail, WA. She worked as a waitress in the logging camps, help build airplanes for Boeing in the 1940’s, and was a nurses aid at Fort Lewis, WA. Then raised two children. Became an avid golfer, excellent restaurant waitress and retired from a certified nursing aid position at the North Bend Nursing Home in 1980.

She married Kenneth Freese of Snoqualmie in 1985, who was supervising the Electron Power Plant. They moved back to Snoqualmie in 1989 after Kenneth retired from Puget Power. They purchased an RV and went from coast to coast. After RVing for many years they moved to Ajo, AZ in 2004 where she was active in gardening, church, Kenneth’s Masonic Lodge and fixing up an old house.

Early in 2013 her health started to decline until she passed to that celestial home, that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens at age 93. She will be greatly missed by many.

She is survived by her son, Robert Rodewald; daughter, Carolyn Marchetti; three step daughters, Sharen (Freese) Fisher, Kathy (Freese) Weber & Susan (Freese) Smith; 5 grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren; as well as her husband Kenneth.

There will be a memorial service at the St. Titus Church in Ajo, AZ on November 30, 2013 at 2:00 PM. Interment to follow the service in the Ajo Cemetery, Ajo, AZ.