Rose VanArsdel, beloved mother of Elizabeth VanArsdel and Jonathan VanArsdel, passed away on April 21, 2019 in Bryan, TX.
A business woman and patron of the arts, Rose was born in Elizabethtown, IL on August 30, 1928. Elizabethtown is located on the Ohio River in southern Illinois where her mother's family owned and operated the Rose Hotel, a small hotel in that was frequented by barges and steamboats in the years after the Civil War, when river travel was the primary means for moving goods and services in the midwestern US.