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Rose retires after 16 years with the Washburn Post Office

PictureShirley Rose is retiring after 16 years of service with the Washburn Post Office. With Shirley are some of her fellow employees over the years. In the front row, from left to right: Brenda Treadwell, Shirley Rose, Norma Windes, and Alice McNabb. Back Row: James Hayworth, Sherry Stephens, and Dianne Hopkins.
December 24, 2014
Steve Chapman


 Shirley Rose, a postal service employee at the Washburn post office, is preparing to retire after 16 years with the United States Postal Service. Almost 40 of her family members, friends and co-workers gathered to honor her for her years of service. The celebration took place on Sunday, December 21, at the Southwest R-V Elementary cafeteria.
Shirley is a postmaster relief. Whenever Sherry Stephens, the acting Washburn postmaster, must be gone, Shirley steps in and assumes her duties. Though she will miss her job at the post office, Shirley said she felt it was just time for her to move on. “The postal service has really been good to me, and I hate to give it up, but I’m going to,” she said. Her retirement becomes official on January 1.
Shirley was born in Washburn on January 20, 1937, the fourth of Ora and Maye Catron’s seven children. She grew up on her parents’ dairy farm and attended school in Washburn, graduating in 1954, the year before the Washburn School District became Southwest R-V.
She married Jimmy Rose on August 20, 1953, and they ran their own dairy farm together for over 50 years while raising their four children, Bill, Sue, Bobbi and Steven. Her children went on to have families of their own, and Shirley now has 10 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
After Jimmy passed away in 1997, Shirley eventually turned the management of the dairy farm over to Bill and then began working at a variety of jobs. She was a substitute cook for the Southwest R-V and Cassville R-VI Districts for a year before beginning with the postal service. “When you operate a dairy farm for over 50 years, there’s not much else you’re qualified for,” she said with a laugh.
Future plans for Shirley include a return to farming. She owns a 370-acre farm, and now plans to partner with her brother, Raymond, in raising beef cattle.

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    • Vaccination rate up, COVID cases down
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    • Date set for Chamber Golf Tourney
    • Ozark Festival Orchestra POPS Concert Slated for April 25
    • Cassville City Council plans park improvements
    • Sickles, Dickinson and Postlewait mine gold at Reeds Spring Invitational
    • A golf update from Coach Rogers
    • Community Foundation of The Ozarks accepting grant applications
    • Washburn student chosen as NSHSS member
    • CHS theater students perform Cafe Murder
    • Education reform would provide school choice for some
    • Purdy students model “Perseverance”
    • SKITS to present “A Farce of Nature”
    • Horner Ridge Runners 4-H holds annual food drive
    • Gardening Tips
    • Fishers of Men cut the chamber ribbon
    • Annual Shell Knob Home & Business Show draws many vendors
    • March “Self-disciplined” Students of The Month
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