Robert & Beatrice Rosen

Bob and Bea Rosen – Wedding Anniversary – June 27, 1982 Bea - January 25, 1952 - November 4, 2023
Bob - January 1, 1939 - January 9, 2024

‘A TRIBUTE OF LOVE’… BEA AND BOB… IN OUR HEARTS ALWAYS…

THE FAMILIES OF BEA AND BOB LOVINGLY PENNED THIS ‘TRIBUTE OF LOVE’ …

ROBERT (B0B) A. ROSEN, 85, OF ATKINSON, NH, ENTERED INTO HIS CELESTIAL HOME ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2024, WITH GOD AND HIS ANGELS AT HIS SIDE.

BORN IN CHARLESTOWN, MA, BOB WAS THE SON OF THE LATE WILLIAM J. AND ELEANOR I. (GETCH) ROSEN. BOB ENTERED THIS WORLD MAKING THE BOSTON GLOBE HEADLINES AS THE FIRST BABY BOY BORN IN BOSTON ON JANUARY 1, 1939, AND INFORMALLY BECAME KNOWN AS “MR. 1939” AMONG HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS! THE ROSEN FAMILY MOVED TO BRIGHTON, MA, SO THE CHILDREN COULD HAVE A YARD TO PLAY IN AND A NEIGHBORGOOD WITH SCHOOLS AND CHURCH NEARBY.

A GRADUATE OF ST. COLUMBKILLE HIGH SCHOOL IN BRIGHTON, MA, BOB ENLISTED IN THE US ARMY AND SERVED HONORABLY FOR APPROXIMATELY SIX YEARS.  HIS TOUR OF DUTY TOOK HIM TO BERLIN, GERMANY, STUDYING AND WORKING IN THE ARMY SECURITY AGENCY AS A MORSE CODE READER, WITHIN SIGHT OF CHECKPOINT CHARLIE AND THE INFAMOUS BERLIN WALL.  DURING THIS TIME, BOB WROTE MANY LETTERS TO HIS SIBLINGS AND SIGNED EACH AS, “YOUR OVERSEAS AMBASSADOR.” BOB’S YOUNGER SIBLINGS LOOKED UP TO BOB AS THEIR ‘OVERSEES AMBASSADOR’… MARK TOOK BOB’S NAME FOR MARK’S CONFIRMATION NAME. FOLLOWING HIS TOUR OF DUTY IN GERMANY, BOB RETURNED TO THE BOSTON AREA AND HE THEN TRANSITIONED INTO THE ARMY RESERVE FOR THREE YEARS.

AFTER HIS SERVICE WAS COMPLETED, BOB AND HIS BROTHERS BILL AND WARREN BOUGHT AND OUTFITTED A STATE OF THE ART, HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE PICKUP CAMPER FOR FISHING AND CAMPING TRIPS UP TO THE “WILDS” OF MAINE, ALL THE WAY UP TO THE CANADIAN BORDER. THESE TRIPS WERE DONE WITH SURVEY MAPS AND COMPASSES AND THEY NEVER GOT LOST! THIS WAS IN THE EARLY TO MID 1960’S, BEFORE CELL PHONES AND GPS TRACKING! THEY HAD A LOT OF FUN WITH THE PICKUP CAMPER AND SOLD IT A FEW YEARS LATER.

BOB ENJOYED WORKING IN MANY AREAS OF MANUFACTURING, CUSTOMER SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION, INCLUDING POLAROID AND TYLAN GENERAL AND STUDIED AND DABBLED IN THE STOCK MARKET. AFTER HIS WORKDAY, AT NIGHT, BOB STUDIED VERY HARD AT MERRIMACK COLLEGE AND OBTAINED HIS ASSOCIATE DEGREE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. THIS WAS QUITE AN ACCOMPLISHMENT! BOB WAS CONSIDERED AN ‘ELECTRONICS WIZARD’ BY HIS FAMILY.

BOB ALSO WAS A SELF-TAUGHT NUTRITIONIST; HE SELF-PUBLISHED A POCKET- SIZED REFERENCE BOOKLET ON FOODS FOR DIABETICS. HE ALSO STUDIED HANDWRITING GRAPHO ANAYSIS THROUGH A HOME STUDY COURSE LEADING TO HIS CERTIFICATION AS A HANDWRITING GRAPHO ANALYST. FAMILY AND FRIENDS BENEFITED GREATLY FROM HIS KNOWLEDGE.

AFTER BILL GOT MARRIED, BOB AND WARREN DECIDED TO BECOME HOMEOWNERS IN 1970 AND BOUGHT A HOME TOGETHER IN ANDOVER, MA. RICHARD JOINED THEM SOON AFTER.

BOB ENJOYED TRYING NEW VENTURES. HE GOT INVOLVED IN THE 1970’S WITH HOME WATER DISTILLERS. WATER PURIFICATION WAS A ‘HOT TOPIC’ AT THE TIME. HE WAS A REGIONAL DISTRIBUTER FOR A MAIL ORDER DISTILLER MANUFACTURER AND HE HAD BOUGHT THREE OF THEIR DISTILLERS AS SALES MODELS.  THE SALES WERE HARD TO GET.  EVENTUALLY THIS DISTILLER PROCESS WAS PROVEN NOT COST EFFECTIVE AS IT ONLY PRODUCED SMALL AMOUNTS OF DISTILLED WATER.

AMONG SOME OF HIS HOBBIES BOB SHARED WITH HIS BROTHERS GROWING UP WERE TINKERING WITH MORSE CODE AND HAM RADIOS. THEIR INTERESTS IN HAM RADIOS BEGAN IN HIGH SCHOOL. BOB’S CALL LETTERS WERE ‘K1DZV’… BOB AND WARREN WERE MENTORED BY UNCLE AL (A LICENSED HAM RADIO OPERATOR), WHO GAVE THEM THEIR WRITTEN AND CODE TESTS FOR THEIR NOVICE LICENSES AT HIS HOME. A FEW MONTHS LATER BOB AND WARREN WENT INTO THE CUSTOM HOUSE IN BOSTON TO TAKE AND PASS EXAMS FOR THEIR TECHNICIAN/ADVANCED HAM RADIO LICENSES.

THE YOUNGER SIBLINGS GREATLY BENEFITED FROM THEIR OLDER BROTHERS CRAFTING WOOD CREATIONS (STAGECOACH) AND MAKING A REALLY COOL IGLOO OUT OF SNOW AND THE ‘TRICK’ MOVIES CREATED WERE SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH!

AROUND 2009, BEA AND BOB WERE BUSY CONVERTING 8MM FILMS INTO VIDEOS. THEY LEFT QUITE A LEGACY FOR US TO ENJOY! RECENTLY, WARREN AND BILL HAVE BEEN EDITING THEM TO BE PUT UP ON THE ‘CLOUD’. MARK IS WORKING ON A VIDEO OF PHOTOS, CELEBRATING BEA AND BOB, THAT HE HOPES TO COMPLETE AND POST FOR ALL OF US TO ENJOY.

IN THE EARLY 60’S, BOB AND HIS BROTHER GERRY BOUGHT AND RESTORED THEIR FIRST JEEP, A VINTAGE 1940’S JEEP, BRINGING THEM MUCH PRIDE AND JOY! LATER, BOB AND GERRY BOUGHT A 1960’S JEEP THAT TOOK THEM TO SEVERAL TRIPS TO CAPE COD. WE ALL HAVE SO MANY WONDERFUL MEMORIES OF SUMMER OUTINGS TO WELLFLEET ON CAPE COD WITH FAMILY AND AUNTS, UNCLES AND COUSINS…

PLAYING HORSESHOES, HANGING OUT AT SECOND BEACH, AND WATCHING UNCLE LEO SHUCK QUAHOGS… EVERYONE CRAMMED INTO THIS SMALL, TWO-STORY COTTAGE… SLEEPING IN CLOSESTS, TRIPLED UP ON BEDS, CROSSWISE, ON LOUNG CHAIRS, COUCHES, SLEEPING BAGS… OH WHAT FUN WE ALL HAD… YOUNG AND OLD, UNCLES AND AUNTS, COUSINS OF ALL AGES… GENERATIONS TOGETHER … OH THE FUN WE HAD…

BEING THE SECOND OLDEST OF NINE SIBLINGS, BOB EMBRACED THE IMPORTANCE OF HIS LOVING FAMILY, SHARING AND HELPING CAME NATURALLY; HE WAS A HUMBLE, QUIET AND REFLECTIVE SOUL WHO LOVED GENEROUSLY AND GAVE WHOLEHEARTEDLY TO THOSE THAT HE BELOVED. THE GREATEST JOY FOR BOB WAS HIS FAMILY AND TIME SPENT AT FAMILY GATHERINGS AND CELEBRATIONS.

BOB AND BEA’S LOVE STORY BEGAN THROUGH THEIR FRIEND KATHY AND SISTER, MARY ANNE … KATHY AND BEA WORKED TOGETHER… KATHY AND MARY ANNE INTRODUCED BEA TO BOB… MARY ANNE, KATHY AND BEA HUNG OUT TOGETHER… THAT’S HOW IT ALL BEGAN… ‘TWO LOVEBIRDS’ IN THE MAKING!

THEY CHOSE TO ELOPE IN PROVINCETOWN, CAPE COD, ON JUNE 27, 1982, THEN DROVE TO WARREN’S SUMMER COTTAGE IN WELLFLEET, CAPE COD, TO SHARE THEIR  WONDERFUL  NEWS  WITH  THE  FAMILY  WHO  WERE  VACATIONING  THERE.

BOB’S LOVE OF HIS LIFE, BEA (BEATRICE), WAS TAKEN BY HER ANGELS AND GOD TO HER HEAVENLY HOME ON NOVEMBER 4, 2023, AFTER A VALIANT BATTLE WITH CANCER. LIKE BOB, BEA WAS ALSO IN THE ARMY FOR THREE YEARS AND SERVED AS A PHYSICAL THERAPIST DURING HER ENLISTMENT AND THEN SERVED IN THE ARMY RESERVES FOR SEVEN YEARS AFTER HER DISCHARGE FROM SERVICE. SHE EARNED HER B.S. IN NURSING FROM SALEM STATE COLLEGE AND SPENT HER LIFE HELPING OTHERS IN NEED WHILE WORKING IN HOSPITALS, HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE.

WHEN PA ROSEN COULD NO LONGER LIVE INDEPENDTLY, BEA AND BOB LOVINGLY TOOK CARE OF HIM IN THEIR HOME IN ATKINSON FOR A FEW YEARS BEFORE PA ROSEN FELL INTO SERIOUS HEALTH ISSUES AND HAD TO BE ADMITTED INTO SKILLED NURSING CARE. PA ROSEN ENJOYED SOME WONDERFUL TIMES THERE WHERE THE FAMILY GATHERED AND VISITED ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.

BEA HAD AN ARTISTIC SIDE TO HER. SHE LOVED TO CROCHET AND KNIT AND ALSO LOVED TO TRY OUT NEW RECIPES IN THE KITCHEN. BEA ALSO ENOYED DABBLING IN THE ART OF GENEOLOGY. THE ROSEN FAMILY ENJOYED DISCOVERING NEW AND INTERESTING FACTS AND HISTORY OF GENERATIONS PAST THROUGH THE HOURS BEA SPENT IN RESEARCHING. AND, LIKE BOB, SHE ALSO HAD A STRONG CONNECTION TO FAMILY. WHILE SHE AND BOB HAD NO CHILDREN OF THEIR OWN, BEA WAS VERY INVOLVED IN HER NIECES’ LIVES DURING THEIR YOUNGER YEARS. DURING SCHOOL BREAKS, SHE WOULD HAVE THEM COME TO STAY WITH HER AND, WHETHER THEY SPENT TIME GOING TO MUSEUMS OR THE BEACH OR THE MOVIES, IT WAS ALWAYS A SPECIAL TIME. SHE WAS ALWAYS THERE TO HELP THEM SHOULD THE NEED ARISE AND THEY SHARED A SPECIAL BOND. DURING JOY’S COLLEGE YEARS AT MERRIMAC COLLEGE, BEA AND BOB GRACIOUSLY OPENED UP THEIR HOME FOR JOY TO LIVE WITH THEM WHILE IN SCHOOL.

BEA’S PASSING LEFT A TREMENDOUS VOID IN BOB’S LIFE. HE WAS DEEPLY BROKENHEARTED.  THEY HAD A WONDERFUL LIFE TOGETHER AND WERE INSEPARABLE.  THEY WERE A LOVING COUPLE, DEEPLY DEVOTED TO EACH OTHER, TRUE SOULMATES.  THEY WERE ALWAYS CARING FOR AND ENCOURAGING EACH OTHER… IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH… DURING GOOD TIMES AND VERY HARD TIMES… BEA WAS THE ANGEL OF LOVE, MERCY AND GRACE PERSONIFIED… DURING HER JOURNEYS WITH BREAST AND PANCREATIC CANCERS, BEA’S HOSPICE JOURNEY TOOK MANY TURNS… TAKING HER TO MAINE FOR FOUR MONTHS… THEN BACK INTO BOB’S ARMS DAYS BEFORE SHE WAS TAKEN BY HER ANGELS… BOB’S UNWAVERING LOVE AND CARE FOR BEA WAS CONSTANT. AFTER BEA’S PASSING, BOB WAS THE GUY WHO LIKED TO ‘CHEW ON IT’ …. WITH DEEP CONTEMPLATION BEFORE COMMITTING TO RECEIVE HELP OR REMEDIES FOR HIMSELF…

THEIR LOVE AND FAITH WERE THE GLUE DURING THESE DIFFICULT TIMES. BEA AND BOB’S ‘LOVE STORY’ OF 41 YEARS WAS EPIC... TWO HEARTS, UNITED AS ONE LOVE, ‘UNTIL DEATH DO US PART’… NOW TOGETHER IN THEIR CELESTIAL HOME.

BEA AND BOB WERE PRECEDED IN DEATH BY MANY BELOVED RELATIVES: THEIR PARENTS, EDWARD AND BARBARA (MARTIN) PATTEN AND (WILLIAM AND ELEANOR (GETCH) ROSEN AND, MANY AUNTS, UNCLES AND COUSINS, BOB’S BROTHER RICHARD, SISTER-IN-LAW CARMELA ROSEN, BROTHERS-IN-LAW CHRIS KANAKARIS, MAL MACRAE, AND BEA’S BROTHERS, ERIC, ERNEST AND DAVID PATTEN.

BEA AND BOB’S LEGACIES LIVE ON THROUGH THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS, WHOSE LIVES THEY TOUCHED. SURVIVING FAMILY MEMBERS INCLUDE SISTER-IN- LAW, MARYANN ROSEN, WILMINGTON, MA; BOB’S FOUR BROTHERS: WILLIAM J. ROSEN, JR (LORRAINE LORDAN), RANDOLPH, MA; GERARD M. ROSEN (JOANNE), MILFORD, MA; WARREN J. ROSEN (KATHY NERPOUNI), WATERTOWN, MA; MARK J. ROSEN (SLOAT SHAW), BROOKLINE, MA; BOB’S THREE SISTERS: MARY ANNE KANAKARIS, NORTH ANDOVER, MA; FRANCES E. PERSECHINI (FRED), COLLIERVILLE, TN; AND, VIRGINIA M. ROSEN, BRAINTREE, MA. BEA’S SISTER, LINDA HASKELL (WAYNE), GARLAND, ME. THEY ALSO LEAVE NIECES AND NEPHEWS: JOY KENNEDY (STEVE), MEDFORD, NJ; TAMARA LEAVITT (JAMES), ST. ALBANS, ME; KENNETH PATTEN (ROBIN) AND MARK PATTEN, WESLEY CHAPEL, FL; CHRISTINE ROSEN (TONY IAMS) SCARSDALE, NY; JOHN ROSEN, BETHEL, ME; PATRICIA ROSEN (JOSH WOOD) CRANSTON, RI; ELLEN PERSECHINI WORTMAN (DAVID), WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC; JENNIFER PERSECHINI MAREE (ROBBIE) COLLIERVILLE, TN; PHILIP PERSECHINI (ERIN), SANDY, UT; AND, GREAT NIECES AND GREAT NEPHEWS: MACKENZIE KENNEDY; RACHEL, LIAM AND SAVANNA LEAVITT; KALI, HEATHER AND JENNIFER PATTEN; DAVID AND HENRY WORTMAN; OLIVER AND PENELOPE MAREE; TRUETT, IRIE AND ZION PERSECHINI; AND, MANY COUSINS AND FRIENDS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.

AS WE FONDLY RECALL BEA AND BOB’S VIBRANT SPIRIT AND UNWAVERING KINDNESS, LET US CHERISH THE MEMORIES WOVEN INTO OUR LIVES, RICH WITH LOVE AND COMPASSION THAT SHALL ENDURE ETERNALLY.

FAMILY AND FRIENDS WILL GATHER TO HONOR AND REMEMBER OUR BELOVED BEA AND BOB

MILITARY HONORS’ CEREMONY AND COMMITTAL SERVICE

ON SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2024, AT 11:30 A.M. ATKINSON CEMETERY, VETERANS’ SECTION 118 MAIN STREET, ATKINSON, NH 03811