CAMILLA ROSENER

Camilla Leona Marie Reinsch Rosener died peacefully on August 12, 2026 in Dallas, Texas. Born in Shickley, Nebraska on December 5,1928, she was 97 years old. She was preceded in death by her parents Ernest Reinsch and Florence Jacque Reinsch, her siblings Evelyn Reinsch Dorman, William Reinsch, Francis (Tanny) Reinsch and Ronald Reinsch, her first husband Robert Dale Rosener and her second husband Claiton Lauber. She is survived by her three sons Douglas Gene Rosener (and wife Denise, residing in Austin, Texas), Ronald Dean Rosener (and wife Pamela, residing in Plano, Texas) and Gregory Lee Rosener (and wife Julie, residing in Plano, Texas), by her 11 grandchildren (in order of oldest to youngest) Allison Rosener Mercado (and husband Pablo), Matthew Rosener (and wife Renee), Kristen Rosener Sturdevant (and husband Adam), Kimberly Rosener Bates (and husband Jeremy), Jacqueline Rosener Lair (and husband Matt), Robert Rosener (and wife Meghan), Clark Rosener (and wife Libby), John Rosener (and wife Sierra), Paige Rosener Pratt (and husband Andy), Grant Rosener (and wife Marni) and Eric Rosener, and by her 25 great grandchildren (in order of oldest to youngest) Sofia Mercado, Finlay Rosener, Kennedy Bates, Lexi Mercado, Knox Lair, Bradley Bates, Cade Carson, Chase Rosener, Hunter Sturdevant, Emily Bates, Olivia Carson, Harris Sturdevant, Nash Lair, Holt Sturdevant, James Pratt, Wyatt Rosener, Caleb Rosener, John Pratt, Smith Rosener, Luke Rosener, Jackson Pratt, Davis Rosener, Hannah Rosener, Scottie Rosener and Wyldsen Rosener (and another baby girl Rosener to be here soon).

Mom’s ancestors were of German and French descent who moved to the area in search of land and an opportunity to raise a family and work hard to provide for it. Her earliest days were living on her parents’ farm in rural southeastern Nebraska near Shickley. Her dad grew crops and raised livestock, pigs and chickens. Mom and her sister assisted their mom with cooking, cleaning, sewing and similar chores, while her brothers assisted her dad with farm chores and other outdoor activities.

Mom’s schooling started in a one-room country school house a few miles from her home. She and her siblings would walk together to and from school. She attended high school in Geneva, Nebraska, where she graduated in 1946. She and her family moved to Geneva in 1948.

Mom was raised Catholic, and she and her family took their faith seriously. Faith, prayer and attendance at Mass were a constant and visible throughout her life.

Mom and our Dad (Robert Rosener) were married on April 22, 1948 after meeting at a dance in Milligan. Dad and his family farmed in the Daykin area, so they first moved into a two-story farm home just south of Daykin, where they (along with our Dad’s brother Jack and his family) and then Doug and Ron lived until Doug was ready to attend kindergarten, at which time our family moved to Fairbury. Our Dad died unexpectedly in 1988. Mom later married a high school friend from Geneva, Claiton Lauber, in 1995. After her marriage, she moved into Claiton’s house in Geneva, but also kept her house in Fairbury for many years. Claiton and his first wife Evelyn had four adult children (Nancy, Karyn, Gina and Marty). After Claiton died in 2010, Mom moved to Sun City, Texas. She moved into assisted living in Dallas in 2022, which is where she lived until her death.

Mom was an exceedingly beautiful and elegant woman. When we celebrated her 90th birthday, she looked 20 years younger than her age. She took pride in her looks, and she took care of herself physically, not by exercising but by working inside and outside her home cleaning, picking up clothes, doing laundry, cooking, mowing the lawn, washing cars and tending to her many beautiful gardens.

She was (like her mother) a great and constant cook, always preparing four and five course meals, insisting that her boys eat it, which we did gladly. During wheat harvest when we cut until dark, we always looked forward to my mom bringing us sandwiches and drinks to the field where we were working that day. When the work day was over, she also always had a delicious dinner waiting for us when we got home.

She was a very impressive designer of clothes, a seamstress and an artist. She has many sketches of beautiful women’s clothes that are sophisticated and elegant, some of which she then made into her own clothes.

She loved flowers and tended her many gardens religiously. She loved showing them and sharing them with her daughters-in-law and her grandchildren, and loved a beautiful yard.

Holidays at home with Mom and Dad and with our grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins were always special and something we very much looked forward to, including when we were away at college or graduate school. There was always an abundance of great food, drinks and card playing.

We always loved our home, as did our kids, and that was first and foremost because of Mom. Visiting their grandma in Nebraska was their favorite thing in the world.

Although Mom and Dad worked very hard their whole lives, they also had fun. Dad was a great saxophone player, and he often played at parties with friends, and Mom and others engaged in singing, dancing, eating, drinking and conversation. Our recollection is they all had great fun at their parties. Mom loved to dance. She also enjoyed playing bridge.

Without a doubt, the one thing that describes our Mom best is “unconditional love,” which she did constantly and exceedingly well. Everyone in our family knows and will say that, from the oldest to the youngest (she adored our babies and young kids, often engaging with them on the floor, which was not beneath her but instead a joy to her). Everyone in our family loved her greatly in return. She worked very hard to ensure that everyone was loved and in fact felt that love, but it was seemingly easy for her as that was her nature. She attended to our every need constantly, including cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, helping with homework, taking us to and from practices and lessons for sports, piano, trumpet and swimming, attending our many football, basketball, track and baseball games, and speaking with us in the most loving way whenever she felt we needed that. Perhaps most of all, we will remember our Mom as a prayer warrior for our family. She went to Mass weekly and at times more often, and we know she prayed for us and our kids and grandkids incessantly. That was yet another, and perhaps the most important, way in which she loved us.

In Matthew 22:36-39, Christ is asked which is the greatest commandment and He replies first to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” and second “to love your neighbor as yourself.” Mom practiced and truly excelled at that, with her focus being on her family but extending to others as well, as she was always very sweet and kind and respectful of others. She loved her family and home most of all, and she did so exceedingly well and sacrificially without hesitation or complaint. She loved her sons and their wives, and her grandkids and their spouses and their kids. Everyone knew it, and everyone felt it time and time again. And she was greatly loved in return, not only by her family but by others. Our friends (from grade school through college and after) uniformly noticed that and remarked about her sweetness and beauty. That is her legacy, and it doesn’t get any better than that!

No one is perfect. But our Mom was the perfect mother, grandmother and great grandmother, and we are so very thankful and blessed for that. And we know that now she is in Heaven, the perfect place with the perfect creator of the universe and in the presence of her family. Praise be to God!

Doug Rosener

Ron Rosener

Greg Rosener