Grover V. (G.V. or Rosy) Rosenkild

Grover V. (G.V. or Rosy) Rosenkild, 89, of Iowa City, died January 20, 2008, with his sons at his side, after a short illness. At Grover's request, he will be cremated and there will be no services. Donations in his memory may be sent to the Iowa City Senior Center. Grover would have wanted to thank all of those who cared for him at Oaknoll and during his hospitalization, especially his long-time physician, Dr. Gwen Beck, for her many years of compassionate care and friendship. Online condolences may be sent for his family through the web @ www.gayandciha.com.

      Grover was born March 14, 1918, near Poplar, Iowa, the youngest of three sons of Andrew and Rosa (Sorensen) Rosenkild, who both emigrated from Denmark. He graduated from Audubon High School in 1935. Between high school and college, Grover's sense of adventure found him traveling to the Texas Centennial and to California in search of employment. He received a certificate in dairy industries from Iowa State University in 1940. Grover was drafted into the Army in July, 1941, and, a month after Pearl Harbor, was stationed in Hawaii with the Coast Artillery Corps. While back in the states for officer candidate school, he met Muriel M. Fahrney of Deep River, Iowa, on a train to Washington, D.C., where Muriel was working as Jimmy Doolittle's secretary at the Pentagon. Fortunately for their children, Muriel declined a commission in the Women's Auxiliary Air Corps and she and Grover were married March 14, 1944, at Fort Weatherill, Rhode Island.