- Date Of Birth: December 20, 1917
- Date Of Death: December 13, 2015
- State: Connecticut
Adolph J. Rose, 97, of Trumbull died at St. Joseph’s Health Center in Trumbull December 13, one week before his 98th birthday. Born December 20, 1917 in White Plains, NY, he was raised in Trumbull and was the husband of the late Ann Bogart Rose. He was a quiet and shy man whose life was his family. Like so many of his generation, Adolph left school during the Great Depression to help support his family. He traveled the country hitch hiking and jumping freight trains searching for work. He took whatever was available including being a roustabout for Ringling Bros. Circus and working in a gold mine in Alaska. In 1945 he married Ann, his childhood sweetheart and the sister of his best friend, John. While still a child Adolph decided that when he grew up he would buy the house across the street from his family’s home. It took him a year to convince the owners to sell but he and Ann bought the house in their second year of marriage.
Adolph remodeled the house and later built a swing set and seesaw for his children. He took them for long walks in the nearby woods and taught them to look under fallen leaves for hickory nuts and how to break the shells. He showed them the swimming holes and campfire rocks he had used as a boy. He had a grapevine and every year planted the Italian staples of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplants. When rabbits and woodchucks stole from his garden he shrugged his shoulders and said animals need to eat too.
When he entered St.
