SHERIDAN-Funeral services for Sheridan resident Rose Fowler, 95, will be conducted at 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Church by Pastor Kenneth Doolin.  Interment will be in Sheridan Municipal Cemetery.

She died May 11, 2002, at Sheridan Manor, where she had lived for the last year.

Born Jan. 1, 1907, in Scanno, Italy, she was the daughter of Nick and Anna (DeCrescentis) Julio.  Her mother died in 1908.  In 1910, her father, who had moved to the coal mining camp of Monarch, sent for his new wife and two daughters.

She attended elementary schools in Monarch and Carneyville and a year at Holy Name School in Sheridan.  In 1926, she graduated from Sheridan High School.

For 32 years, she taught elementary grades, beginning in 1926 at Todd School on Piney Creek; then five years at Parkman; nine years at Ucross School; and the next 17 years in Clearmont in first and second grades.

On March 2, 1929, she married John H. Fowler in Billings, Mont.

In 1933, they moved to an 160-acre ranch in Ucross.  It was their home until the death of her husband on Aug. 27, 1970.

A year later, she bought a home in Sheridan and lived there until moving into Sugarland Ridge in 1996.

Next to her career as a rural elementary teacher, her favorite passion was raising "prize-winning" roses and sharing them with anyone who happened by.

Family and friends meant everything to her.  A loyal Democrat, she was a member of First Baptist Church, Piney Woman's Club and the Retired Teachers' Association.

Survivors include her brother, Tony Julio, and his wife of Denver; three sisters, Delma Latham of Salem, Ore., Lucile Thompson of Pine Bluffs and Jean O'Connor of Reno, Nev.; and numerous nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.

In addition to her mother, she was preceded in death by her stepmother, Lucia (Paolone) Julio, in 1940; father in 1941; two sisters, Ida Rotolo in March 1980 and Mary Julio in October 1980; two nieces; two nephews; and three brothers-in-law.

Memorials may be made to Easter Seals, Camp Bethel, or a charity of the donor's choice, in care of Delphine Toner, First Interstate Bank, P.O. Box 2007, Sheridan 82801.

Kane Funeral Home of Sheridan is in charge of arrangements.