Person:Rose Brady (3)

There is a picture of Rose and Victor Paulsen where Rose is wearing a coat. Rose remembered in 2004 after seeing a copy of that picture that the coat had a badger collar. It was also detachable.

Albany Democrat-Herald, Death notice Rose Marie Bahm, 99, of Albany died Tuesday morning at Samaritan Albany General Hospital. Fisher Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

ROSE MARIE BAHM Dec, 28, 1904--Oct. 19, 2004 Rose was born in Titusville, PA., to William and Cora (Kightlinger) Brady. She married Walter T. Paulsen in 1931. He died in 1972. Rose married Ralph Bahm in 1977. He died in 1990. Rose was a member of Lakewood United Methodist Church in Erie, PA., and the Retired Teachers Education Association, National, State and Local. She is survived by daughter and son-in-law, Myrna Ruth (Paulsen) and Richard Cruse of Albany, three grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Services will be held in Pennsylvania. Contributions can be made to Lakewood United Methodist Church or a charity of one's choice in care of Fisher Funeral Home.

The following history was given to the residents of Alterra, the home she was living at in Albany, OR. A History of Rose Bahm: Rose Marie Brady was born on December 28, 1904 in Titusville, PA, when Teddy Roosevelt was President, first-class postage stamps cost two cents, and Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma were still territories. She was the youngest of 3 children. Her father owned a butcher shop and her mother ran a boarding house. Titusville is the location of the first successful oil well and at that time was quite a prosperous town. There were times when she and her siblings delivered lunches to the men working in the oil fields.

While she was in school, the Titanic sand, the 16th (Income Tax), 28th (Prohibition) and 19th (Woman Suffrage) Amendments were passed, the Panama Canal opened, and World War I was fought. Rose attended a state teachers' college, and went on to teach junior high school in a nearby town. She married her high school sweetheart, Walter (Bobe) Paulsen, in 1931. Eventually they moved 42 miles away (quite a distance in those days) to Erie, Pennsylvania, and bought a home two blocks from Lake Erie. This was to be her home until she moved to Alterra Wynwood in Albany in 1999.

During the summer when Rose wasn't teaching, she, Walter and their only child Myrna, enjoyed traveling and spent nearly every summer touring national parks in the West. Rose was widowed in 1972, and eventually remarried. Ralph Bahm also enjoyed traveling. This time it was usually to visit Myrna and her family wherever they were living, which was in various states out west. Lately Rose looked forward to visits from her three grandchildren and their families, who are scattered from Washington, D.C., to Dallas, Texas, to Tucson, Arizona. She took great pride in the latest generation--her four great-grandchildren who range in age from 2 years old to 6 weeks old.

Many important events took place throughout Rose's 99 years---Charles Lindberg flew nonstop from New York to Paris, the first talking movie was released, the stock market crashed, Amelia Earhart was lost in the Pacific. World War II with rationing impacted everyone's lives, the Berlin Wall was erected and came down, JFK, Martin Luther King, and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated and Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon. Aerosol cans, bubble gum, car radios, scotch tape, ball point pens, and television, personal computers, digital cameras, the Internet, and cell phones were invented. There have been 18 presidents in her lifetime....she was blessed to live a very full life, indeed.

1. ↑ Dick Paulsen & Grace Paulsen & family oral histories. Paulsen Family History.