Hudsonhubtimes.com - ROSANNE KENNON SCHOLLENBERGER / Volunteered for Hudson schools

Rosanne Kennon Schollenberger, 85, a long-time Hudson resident, died April 24, 2008, at the Gardens of the Western Reserve in Cuyahoga Falls.

Mrs. Schollenberger was born June 25, 1922, in Barnesville, to David Warner Kennon and Gertrude Heskett Kennon. She was raised by her father and three maiden aunts after her mother died in 1923. After graduating from high school in 1940, she attended the College of Wooster and graduated with a bachelor's degree in math and speech in 1944. From 1944 to 1949, she worked in a special World War II management training program for women at the Eastman Kodak Co. in Rochester, N.Y. In later years she worked as an instructor at the Weaver Sheltered Workshop in Bath Township.

She married Dr. Charles S. Schollenberger of Wooster Oct. 15, 1949. She joined the Hudson First Congregational Church Women's Fellowship after the family moved to Hudson in 1964. She volunteered for the Hudson public schools and served on the superintendent's athletic study committee that recommended building the first Hudson High School running track. She also was active in the Hudson Woman's Club, helped open Blossom Music Center in 1968, and served as a member of the board of directors of Family Service of Cuyahoga Falls, a non-profit family counseling service, from 1970 to 1978.

She was preceded in death by her husband. She is survived by two sons and two daughters-in-law, Charles David Schollenberger and his wife, Jennifer, of Prairie Village, Kan., and David Kennon Schollenberger and his wife, Mel Ann of Paradise Waters, Queensland, Australia; and two grandchildren, Christopher and Katrina Schollenberger. Vistitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. May 2 at Johnson-Romito Funeral Home in Hudson. Services will be at 11 a.m. May 3 at the First Congregational Church of Hudson, with interment to follow at Markillie Cemetery in Hudson. A deaconess reception at the church will follow interment. The family suggests memorial contributions be made to the Rosanne Schollenberger Memorial at the First Congregational Church of Hudson.