Rose Ellen (Zomok) Carson, 74, Winona

 Rose Ellen B. (Zomok) Carson, age 74, of Winona, formerly of the Wabasha and Kellogg area, died Saturday, January 2, 2016 at Lake Winona Manor, where she resided the past month, with her loving daughter at her side. She was born February 27, 1941 in Winona, the daughter of Joseph and Ellen (Dial) Zomok. She was a 1959 graduate of Wabasha High School and a 1964 graduate of Winona State Teachers College. Rose taught junior high school in Cleveland, Ohio for 15 years. While there she married Robert Carson. They later divorced. Rose moved back to the Wabasha area in 1979. She worked as a typesetter for the Wabasha County Herald and later worked as the office manager for Wabasha Cablevision. She moved to Winona in 2001.
 Rose was a past member of St. Agnes Catholic Church in Kellogg.  She was an accomplished bowler, once bowling a 675 series in 1978.  Rose loved reading, crocheting, cooking, baking, decorating cakes, and playing cards.  Rose was a very kind and giving woman.  She was always willing to help those in need and disadvantaged.  Some of her most enduring qualities were honesty, kindnesses and being non-judgmental towards all.  She was especially close to her daughter, Kathy, whom she raised alone.  Rose was very proud of the woman Kathy had become.
 Rose is survived by her daughter, Kathleen Carson, Holmen, WI; brothers and sisters-in-law, Carl and Linda Zomok, Kasson, MN, Albert and Leilani Zomok, Kettle River, MN, Larry and Kim Zomok, Wabasha, MN; sister and brother-in-law, Pearlann and Donald Mansmith, Malvern, AR; nieces, nephews and dear friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, Joe and Ellen Zomok, brothers, Joseph, Samuel and infant brother, Peter Zomok, and sister, JoAnn Kaelke.
 A special thanks to Dr. Mary Michener for her kind and loving health ministry of Rose throughout the years. Also warm and many thanks to the staff of Winona Hospice and Lake Winona Manor, especially nurse Mary.
 A time to celebrate Rose’s life will be held on Friday, January 8, 2016 at 11:00am at the Abbott Funeral Home in Wabasha with Rosalie Hooper Thomas officiating. Interment will follow at Greenfield Cemetery, rural Kellogg, with a luncheon at St. Agnes Church Hall in Kellogg immediately following the burial. Family and friends may call at the funeral home on Thursday from 5-8pm and one hour before the service on Friday. The Abbott Funeral Home of Wabasha is in charge of arrangements. www.abbottfh.com