- Date Of Birth: July 8, 1912
- Date Of Death: September 13, 2010
- State: Idaho
Rosemary (Rose) Dermitt, died September 13, 2010, at Valley View Retirement Center in Boise. Rose was born one month prematurely on July 12, 1912, in Perry, Ohio, the daughter of Joseph and Mary Mogor, both from Hungary. Her mother wrapped Rose in flannel and put her in a shoebox in the wood cook stove warming oven, where she spent the first month of her life. Perhaps that is why she lived so long and so well.
A member of the National Honor Society, she graduated from Harvey High School in Painesville, Ohio, and after taking business classes from the Std. Ext. University of Chicago, she worked for the law firm of Pollock, Brady, Malley, and Lennon. Three years later she went to work for the superintendent of the power department at the Diamond Alkali Company.
She married her first husband in 1940 and had three daughters: Susan Irene, Linda Kay, and Sharon Louise. That marriage ended in divorce, and in 1953, she married Edward Dermitt, who adopted her three girls. In 1956, they moved to New York to work for General Electric in Utica, where she was secretary to the office procedures manager of the Sidewinder Missile Program. She was employed for the next ten years, until her retirement in 1970, by the General Dynamics Corporation in Rochester, NY. Her dream had been to be an executive secretary, and in 1964, she began working as an executive secretary for the director of marketing on the Apollo Ships Program in Quincy, MA, then in the F-111 Program in Ft. Worth, Texas.
Rosemary died of natural causes. She is survived by her daughters Susan Landgraf of Auburn, WA, and Linda Witherill of Casselberry, FL; stepson Edward Nichols and his wife Anna of Middlesex, NY; sister-in-law Nina Mogor of Las Vegas, NV; nine grandchildren; nineteen great-grandchildren; and four great-great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her beloved husband Ed; her sons-in-law Rae Witherill and Richard Landgraf; daughter Sharon Dermitt; brother Joseph Mogor; stepdaughter Emily Schultz; a grandson; four aunts; three uncles; and two brothers-in-law.
