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Obituary of Susanne S. Ross
Susanne S. Ross born Susanna Sieglinde Rosenkranz in Linz, Austria January 13, 1929. During Susanne’s early years along with normal school activities, she and her friends would go see various opera and light operas being performed it the theaters in the area, this had a significant impact on her life. She would sing and pretend as all young girls would anywhere in the world about life as a star. Many things became very different though in Europe as she grew up; Hitler was on the rise an as time went on invaded his home country of Austria subjecting it to all of his horrors about which we think we have all learned. Susanne, although young did watch the takeover by the Nazis and many things that resulted. She spoke of the American bombs as the Allies gradually recaptured Europe, of friends being killed in those bombings and of others disappearing and quiet talk of the fate of the Jews. As the war was ending and the American soldiers entered Linz all the girls were warned of the savagery of the American soldiers so hid in closets, attics and wherever they felt safe, then as time passed the realities became clear, they came out of hiding and she ultimately met and married one of those soldiers. Later after having moved to San Francisco, Susanne joined the German-American club where she impressed many with her beautiful soprano singing abilities that she developed as a young person. She had an emotional feel in her singing that literally brought listeners to tears. She was featured in many events, plays, indoor and outdoor and she likely could have attained those childhood dreams but as is many times the case, family took priority and she had to refocus. She occasionally thought back, “what if?” During the mid 1970s she was divorced and became close to co-worker Dick Brooke. She later retired as Production Control Analyst. He retired also and in 1997 they moved together to Modoc’s Jess Valley Road out of Likely where they were living “happily ever after” until the inevitabilities of life intervened, and her life was taken by congestive heart failure on Sunday April 15, 2012. She is survived by Dick, her daughter Joy and Joy’s husband Scott Provart, daughter Gail Greer all in Alturas, Grandchildren Sean Provart and Gabriella Benedict and several great-grandchildren. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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