Rose Marie Tegman Janis

Rose Tegman, child of Helen Anna Tegman and Nelson Hilding Tegman was born on December 18th, 1930 in International Falls, Minnesota. Rose also had a brother Sonny, who was four years older than her.

While Rose lived in Minnesota for a short time, her home was a block from the shores of Rainy Lake, where you could see Canada from the shores of the lake. The winters in Minnesota are very cold, so during the winter for entertainment, her father would take barrels of water up from the lake and dump in their backyard where it would freeze and make a skating rink for Rose and her brother to skate on.

In 1941, Rose moved with her parents and brother to Portland Oregon, she was now eleven years old. She attended school at Ockley Green Grade school in Portland, Oregon until 1946, followed by graduating from Jefferson High School on January 25th, 1949.

After graduation, Rose spent several summers on the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon waterskiing, swimming and enjoying the sun and having fun times with her friends.

On March 18th, 1954, Rose gave birth to her first child, James McDonald. Then in 1955, Rose went to work for Westinghouse Electric Corporation as a secretary. Several years later on October 10th, 1964 Rose gave birth to a daughter, Debra McDonald.

Rose had a great love for dancing so she began square dancing with the Checkerboard Squares sometime around 1970, where she met her husband Alvin (Al) Janis and married on October 3rd, 1975. Al had three children; Doug Janis, Lisa Janis and Gary Janis.

After Rose and Al were married, they joined the Country Cut Up’s, as Rose loved to dance and with her talent for sewing, she would design and sew women’s square dance dresses. One of Rose’s favorite times in square dancing was the numerous trips the Country Cut Up’s would take during summer. These trips consisted of camping and square dancing in very unusual, unique areas that one would not think a group of eight (8) people could square dance in, which included a cave, bathroom, swimming pool and dancing on the sand at the beach.

In 1992, Rose retired, where she then thought to herself “how am I going to keep busy and out of trouble”. So Rose, decided to become a volunteer at Mt. Hood Hospital, she had also taken up ceramic classes and joined a bowling team.

Rose had several areas of compassion, one being the outdoors and her desire to travel, which she did for many years, including being a camp host at Peach Beach for many years, which she loved.

Some of the destinations Rose traveled, included her first trip back to her home in Minnesota where she got to see the house she was raised in as a child. Rose also traveled to Mt. Zion, Mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone, parts of Arizona, Montana, Colorado, Oklahoma, Banff and Calgary Canada, to name just a few.

Following her travels she would return and share her journey with pictures and video’s with her family, which as you watched her explain her adventures, you could see the glow in her face and how much she enjoyed each trip.

When Rose was not traveling, she loved too garden and bird watch. Rose always made sure the birds that visited her backyard were well fed, including feeding the squirrels. Even though Rose fed the squirrels, she would get so mad when the squirrels would dig up plants and bulbs that she planted. Rose’s love for those little critters kept them all fed and her displeasure with their destruction to the garden kept her cursing them at the same time. Season’s came and went and so did the battles in Rose’s garden, though Rose continued to purchase new plants or bulb or replant what they had dug up. .

Every year, Rose spent countless hours rearranging and planting new plants in her backyard, which was her sanctuary. Come spring, summer or fall, her backyard was filled with a multitude of flowers and plants of every color imaginable. It was a sight to see with every thought taken to spacing, height and colors, truly a beautiful environment she loved. Rose would also decorate her patio with hanging baskets and pots filled with plants and flowers.

Of course her travels and gardening were during the warmer seasons, but she also loved the fall and winter months, especially when it came to the holidays. Rose was a fabulous cook and loved to decorate especially at Christmas as this was her favorite holiday.

But with all her compassions for dancing, traveling, and gardening to name a few, the most important thing in Rose’s life was her family and being involved in their lives.

God has blessed Rose’s family, and those that had the pleasure to be her friend as she was the most kind hearted, loving wife, mom, friend and grandmother one could have ever been blessed to have in their lives.

Rose leaves behind a husband she loved with all her heart, a daughter, two sons, nine grandchildren and one great grandchild.

In Loving Memory of Rose, Wife, Mom, Grandmother and friend, you will always live in our hearts and memories.

Arrangements under the direction of Gateway Little Chapel of the Chimes, Portland, OR.