Obituary of Rosalie K. Campbell

Rosalie K. Campbell

June 7, 1927 – May 26, 2025

Rosalie K. Campbell, 97, of Silver Creek, NY passed away peacefully on Monday morning May 26, 2025 at the Chautauqua Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Dunkirk, NY.

She was born on June 7, 1927 in Buffalo, NY, the daughter of the late Charles and Rosalie (nee Ireland) Keating.

Rosalie is survived by three daughters, Mary (Michael) Borrello Dee of Silver Creek, NY, Margo (Robert) Perrello of Fredonia, NY and Amy (David) Trombley of S. Dayton, NY; fourteen grandchildren and twenty great-grandchildren; also survived by many nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents she was predeceased by a daughter Martha Reimann, three brothers, Jeremiah, Thomas, and Francis Keating and two sisters, Eileen Petrinec and Patricia Humble.

Rosalie was a 1945 graduate of Orchard Park High School. She worked for New York Telephone in Dunkirk, NY retiring (1991) as a supervisor with more than thirty years of service. Early in her career she worked for Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company in Roswell, NM as a telephone operator.

Her memberships included Our Lady of Mt. Carmel RC Church in Silver Creek, NY, Telephone Pioneer Clown of WNY and Telephone Pioneers.

She enjoyed knitting, playing cards, working crossword puzzles, collecting cook books, reading and volunteering at the Salvation Army where she helped make food baskets and counted the money.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday, June 9, 2025 at Our Lady of Mt Carmel RC Church, 165 Central Ave. Silver Creek, NY at 10:00 AM. Interment will follow in Mt Carmel Cemetery. Memorial contributions in Rosalie’s memory may be to Dunkirk-Fredonia Meals on Wheels or the Salvation Army in Dunkirk, NY.

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