Nora Kelly Rossiter, 89, passed away peacefully on May 24, 2005 after a long illness due to Alzheimer’s. Nora was born December 12, 1915 in Dolgeville, NY.

On September 5, 1936 she married Bernard Bud T. Rossiter in Dolgeville, NY. Nora, Bud and their young daughter came to Richland, Washington in 1944 to work on the Manhattan project. Bud worked for DuPont, General Electric and Douglas United Nuclear on or around the Hanford site until his death in 1973.

Nora and Bud shared their love of baseball with their children, devoting many years, and family vacations, to youth baseball.

In her early years she was very active in her parish of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Kennewick. After Bud died she worked for the Flower Basket at Columbia Center for twenty years. She was a loving caregiver for her mother until her mother’s death in 1992.

She is preceded in death by her husband Bernard T. Rossiter, her mother Bessie C. Benmark, her aunts Evelyn Eckler, Gertrude Lottridge and Shirley Farr.

She is survived by her daughter Noreen Wattenburger and husband Fred o West Richland, son Bernard Buzz Rossiter and wife Nora of Edmonds, and daughter Lois Rutherford and husband Rick of Richland, her sister-in-law Lois Pollard of Dolgeville, NY, and brother-in-law Bill Rossiter and wife Mimi of Pasco.

She had eleven grandchildren, Leslie, Kelly, Mike, Britt, Aaron, Chris, Micah, Brendan, Jaime, Shawna and Cale, twenty-one great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter.

Mom, we love you but we know you are now with our dad.

We would like to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers during this most difficult time. We would also like to thank Dr. Pillai, Hawthorne Court, Virginia, Toni, Nina Menina and staff at Rosetta Americare and Hospice for the loving care of our mom.

A rosary will be held on Thursday, May 26 at 7:00 PM at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Kennewick. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Joseph’s Chapel on Friday at 11:00 AM, followed by a graveside service at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Richland, with a reception following at St. Joseph’s Chapel basement. Einan’s Funeral Home has made arrangements.

Contributions can be made to St. Joseph’s Building Fund, Hospice or the Alzheimer’s Association.