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Rose Anna Workman
It was a beautiful, sunny Monday morning April 29, 2024, when Rose Anna Workman went to her new home in Heaven. She has started a new adventure and chapter in her life with our Lord Jesus, Charles,her husband, and Rosetta, her daughter.
She was born in Bentonville, Ark., to Clyde and Vinna Williams on Jan 25, 1929. Her family moved to the old farm homestead in Fort Scott where she grew up.
Rose Anna and Charles built their home in Fort Scott where they raised three daughters, Rosetta, and twin girls, Loma and Lora.
Rose Anna was a telephone operator, mother, homemaker, seamstress, gardener, nanny, and grammy to grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was a Vacation Bible School teacher, played piano in the church and loved our Lord Jesus.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Clyde and Vinna Williams, sister, Marie Twitchell, husband, Charles Workman, and a daughter, Rosetta Marie Bailes.
Survived by her twin daughters- Loma Smith of Fort Scott and Lora Strong, Arma, Kan., five grandchildren, Cory Strong, Pittsburg, Kan., Charity Jackson, Fort Scott, Charley Bailes, Kansas City, Melanie Lamb, Fort Scott, Christopher Bailes, California. Also surviving are 12 great-grandchildren.
Rev. Kevin Moyers will conduct funeral services at 10 a.m. Friday, May 3 at the Cheney Witt Chapel. Burial will follow in the U. S. National Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to The Gathering VBS Fund or to Guest Home Estates and may be left in care of the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, P.O. Box 347, Ft. Scott, KS 666701. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com.