Born in Hanau Germany, she came to the US at age 24. Anna worked in several service-related industries and retired to be a caregiver for her spouse. She was a devoted client and at one time a volunteer for Meals On Wheels in Seminole County. The staff and clients were her second family.
She was an honest, humble and steadfast woman and is best remembered by her daughter for the following story about her teenage years in war torn Germany.
Anna had two friends who loved her but intensely disliked each other. Both had birthday parties on the same afternoon, during the exact same hours in Hanau-am-Main, a town 45 minutes outside of Frankfurt where she grew up. Each friend told her that if she didn’t come to their respective party they would never speak to her again.
The average 16 year old would have ultimately chosen one over the other. Refusing to play favorites, Anna chose to stay home and not go to either party. This must have been a difficult decision for any teenager but consider how welcome and inviting a party - let alone 2! - must have sounded in the middle of a war when fun and food were scarcely found.
But she stayed home. She decided not to choose between her friends.
Bombs fell that afternoon in Hanau and everyone in both houses were killed – literally no one in either home survived – Anna lost many friends but had her life.
This sense of doing the right thing defined her throughout her life.
Anna is predeceased by Gomez R. Singletary and Daniel K. Mishowe, spouses and brother Werner Roesel.
She is survived by her daughter, Irene Singletary, of Sanford FL as well as her brother Gerhard Roesel, nephews John Roesel, Wolfgang Roesel and Stefan Roesel of Hanau, Germany and cousins Gertrude and Alfons Ebner of Waldkirsch, Germany as well as other relatives.
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