Rosa Mae “Rosie” Kurtz Mullet

Published 5:54 pm Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Rosa Mullet, age 95, of Pantego, North Carolina, took her last breath on earth and moved to Celestial air on Saturday evening, as she lay peacefully in her own bed beside her faithful husband of fifty-nine and a half years as he held her hand, and their daughter sat beside them. Rosie had been a resident of the Grassy Ridge Community in Hyde County since March 1965, was a charter member of the Hope Mennonite Church, an author, wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

Raised during the Depression, Rosa was a strong believer in the adage, “Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without,” and was firmly against spending “The Lord’s money” for “That which is not bread.”

An avid naturalist, bird watcher, astronomer and a voracious reader, she could hold an interesting conversation with a great variety of people and was always eager to instruct and explain, and many youth expanded their knowledge in her Bible classes, music classes and star classes.

She wrote numerous poems, stories and essays and produced two grade-school science books and four storybooks.

She was active in mission work at various times in her life, ministering in the backwoods hills of Kentucky as a young woman and serving with her husband in Blue Creek, Belize into her seventies.

Born to John and Elizabeth Kurtz, she was the eldest of five girls. Her sister Betty Deputy (Byard) of Harrisonburg, Virginia survives. Her sisters Mary Landis, Ruth Hobbs and Edith Himes preceded her in death, Edith “going home” only a few hours before Rosie herself. Rosie is also survived by her husband D. Keith Mullet; three children: Elizabeth of Pantego, Donald (Rhoda) of Sparta, Wisconsin, Marvin (Dorothy) of Hayward, Wisconsin; and eleven grandchildren. Elizabeth’s identical twin Esther Mae died soon after birth.

Services are planned at Hope Mennonite Church, 25 Main Stem Road, Pantego; a viewing from 6-8 PM on January 26 and her funeral at eleven o’clock Friday morning.

In lieu of flowers, please give a bouquet to a loved one who is still living.

Arrangements are by Bryan Funeral Service, Swan Quarter, where online sympathy messages can be directed to www.bryanfs.com.