Farewell to Sedalias Rose

Category: Democrat

Sedalia writers, artists, family and friends attended a memorial service for local author, activist, journalist and Democrat columnist Rose Nolen Saturday afternoon. Nolens son, Mark Nolen, of Brooklyn Park, Minn., enters Taylor Chapel United Methodist Church with his mothers ashes for the 1 p.m. service.

Followed by family and friends, Mark Nolen, accompanied by a Sedalia Police Department escort, walked his mothers ashes down Ohio Avenue to the Rose Nolen Black History Library at 109 Lima Alley and then to Taylor Chapel UMC on East Pettis Street for memorial services.

Mark Nolen and his aunt Phyllis Montgomery, of Richfield, Minn., prepare to release balloons in honor of his mother while at the Rose Nolen Black History Library Saturday afternoon. Rose Nolen authored and published five books during her writing career that began in 1983.

To honor Nolens weekly column at the Democrat, Nicholas Cashman, left, and his brother Lucas Cashman wear Sedalia Democrat newspaper delivery bags to pass out Nolens memorial flyers at Taylor Chapel Saturday afternoon.

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January 18th, 2015
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