Rosemary Monarch

Funeral services for Rosemary K. Monarch, age 82, will be held at 10:00AM on August 14th, 2009 at Gateway Church of Shreveport (formerly Broadmoor Assembly of God) located at 8925 Youree Drive with Pastor David Daniel officiating. The family will be receiving friends at Rose-Neath Funeral Home at 1815 Marshall St on August 13th, 2009 from 5:00-7:00PM.

Mrs. Monarch was born August 12, 1926 in Ferdinand, IN to Harry and Rose Kippenbrock and went to be with her Lord on the morning of Tuesday, August 11, 2009 in Shreveport, LA. She was an active member of Gateway Church where she enjoyed her weekly bible study and lunch with her friends in the group, The Circle of Love. In addition she was a prayer line volunteer for Guidepost magazine.

Rosemary met her husband in Louisville, Kentucky while she was a switch board operator with AT& T and Jack was an installer with the Western Electric Company, a subsidiary of AT&T that installed the switching equipment in the central telephone offices. They moved to Shreveport in 1948 in a travel trailer when he was transferred to Shreveport with the Western Electric Company. She became a real estate broker working with the Lawrence L. May Company and the Walter Hawkins Company. Along with her husband, they became local real estate investors establishing their roots in Shreveport. After Jack's retirement, they joined their son, Michael, at Monarch Realty and Management, Inc.

Rosemary enjoyed several hobbies and enterprises with her husband. They had Monarch Chinchilla Ranch in their garage selling pelts in New York. Then they became interested in tropical fish and were active in the Ark-La-Tex Aquarium Society. Later they began raising award winning Golden Retrievers and serving in various positions with the Shreveport Kennel Club.

Rosemary is survived by her five sons, James (Jack) R. Monarch II. and wife, Sharon of Ft. Worth, TX, Thomas T. Monarch and wife, Jill of Orlando, FL, Roy J. Monarch and wife Nancy, of Houston, TX, Michael W. Monarch and wife, Deborah of Shreveport, LA, Patrick B. Monarch and wife, Allison of Shreveport, LA; sister, Ethel Baron of Bardstown, KY; 16 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Mrs. Monarch was preceded in death by parents, husband of 54 years, James (Jack) Russell Monarch Sr., brother, Jerry Kippenbrock and sister, Anna May Miller.

Pallbearers will be her 5 sons and grandson Jason Monarch.

Their family would like to express their gratitude to the doctors and staff at Willis-Knighton Pierremont, Heritage Manor Stratmore, The Glen, and Cornerstone Hospital. In addition, we appreciate her church and all of her friends who came to visit, stay, and pray with her during this time.