A resident of Prior Lake, Rosetta Shea was 86 when she passed away peacefully on December 30, 2015.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Saturday, January 2, 2016 at 1 pm, with visitation and rosary starting at 11 am, all at St. Catherine’s Catholic Church 4500 220th Street East, Prior Lake, MN. Rosetta will be laid to rest next to her husband, Jim at St. Catherine Cemetery.
She was the youngest of 11 children born on December 24, 1929, in proctor, MN, to parents, Bernard and Mary Ann (Gautier) Bijold.
Rosetta was very loving of her family and friends. She was an active Befriender, ministering to those in need. She was called to spiritual service as a Secular Francican.
While living in Minneapolis, she was an active parishioner at Holy Name Catholic Church. In the year 1976, she and her husband, Jim built their dream home on Carl’s Lake in Prior Lake, Minnesota.
She was a Liturgical and Eucharistic Minister through St. Catherine’s Church.
She spent the first half of her life creating her family and the second half shepherding and caring for her larger spiritual family.
Left to honor Rosetta’s life and mourn the death is her daughter, Mary Ann Shea and husband, Ramiro; son Thomas and wife Terry; son James; grandchildren, Tania, Emir and wife Tia and Oscar; great-grandchildren, Nevaeh, Victoria; other loving relatives and devoted friends.
Rosetta is preceded in death by her husband, James; parents and siblings.