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In 1991 I was serving in the PPM near Irwin, PA in Monroeville. The sisters serving in Irwin were swamped with “media referrals”. We went down to help them and were given a “Dr. Donald Rohrkaste” to deliver a Together Forever video. We thought it funny that his house was seemingly connected to the First United Church of Christ (it was, turns out he was the Pastor). The first visit lasted 6 hours. Each proceeding visit was kept to a minimum of 3 hours. Don and Beatrice Rohrkaste were prepared by the Lord in dreams and visions and readily gained a testimony of the gospel. After a lifetime of preaching it took him a few years to make the arrangements (so as not to lose his retirement) to be baptized. Sometime in the 90’s they were baptized and went through the temple. The lifestyle change of an LDS life after 70 years of preaching was very difficult on both of them. They slipped away from activity in their final years. Within the last few years they both passed through the veil to the other side. So I thought it appropriate to let all those who helped prepared them and loved them that they are once again in full activity in the “Paradise Stake”.
(BELOW IS THE OBITUARY OF BEA ROHRKASTE)
C. Beatrice Rohrkaste
C. Beatrice (Bea) Rohrkaste of Meadville, Pennsylvania and formerly from Mumford passed away Friday, February 2, 2007, peacefully at Wesbury United Methodist Retirement Community. She not only volunteered as a Sunday school teacher but also served as the Sunday school president at Adamsville Presbyterian Church. She will be remembered by her dedication and commitment to the church.
Survivors include a daughter-in-law, Donna Baker; four grandchildren, Bonnie Smith, Jean McLaughlin and her husband, John, Christopher Baker and his wife Erin, and Kim Ahern and her husband, Pat; and great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her late husband, the Rev. Donald Rohrkaste; a son, Albert Baker; her parents, Louise and Edward Quackenbush of Mumford, NY; two brothers, Edward and Kenneth Quackenbush; and three sisters, June Holley, Alta Worden and Mildred Findla.
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