Graveside services For Rosa Aleman will be 10:00am Friday June 14, 2019 at Killeen Memorial Park Cemetery.
Rosa Aleman, 94, went to be with our Heavenly Father on June 10, 2019. Rosa was a long-time resident of Killeen, Texas, and member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, however, she had spent her last few years living with family in Leander, Texas.
Rosa worked in the secretarial pool and on an assembly line in Germany during WWII helping the American Army, which is where she met her future husband, Jake. As an Army soldier’s wife, she raised her family as they traveled to many different posts. Once the family settled in at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, Rosa worked for the Killeen Independent School District for 24 years.
Rosa was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1925 and immigrated to the United States in 1952, and she was proud to become a U.S. citizen in 1955. In 1994 Rosa was preceded in death by her loving husband of 42 years, Jacob “Jake” Aleman and in 2018 by her daughter Jacqueline Newton (husband Robin) of Converse, Texas.
She leaves behind to honor her life sister Lola Dillenburger of Midland, her daughters Eleonore Hinkson (husband Floyd) of Goldsboro, North Carolina, Edna Stewart of Brenham, Texas, and her son Jake Aleman (wife Linda) of Leander, Texas, as well as two nieces, eleven grandchildren, sixteen great-grandchildren and one great, great grandchild.
