Nelrose Trump

Nelrose was born May 6, 1922 in Helena, Missouri to Oliver Wesley Boggess and Bettie Florence White. She peacefully passed away Tuesday, January 3, 2012 in hospice care.
Named from a popular face powder of the day, Nelrose with her family moved from Helena Missouri to Stanberry, Missouri in 1934 where she graduated from High School in 1940. She accepted Christ as her savior at an early age and was a member of the Baptist Church. She attended Northwest Missouri Teacher's College in Maryville, MO and taught grades one through twelve in a rural one room school house as well as various elementary grades in the NKC School district, retiring in 1972. She married Paul Eugene Trump April 5, 1944 in Stanberry, Missouri; they lived in Gladstone, Missouri for 60 years together raising 3 children. Devoted to her family, she was an excellent mother, seamstress, cook, and homemaker.
In retirement she and Gene traveled extensively researching family history. The genealogy studies lead to her membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution and Colonial Dames XVII as well as publishing several family histories. She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, O.W. Boggess, Jr. and Robert Varner Boggess; infant daughter; infant great granddaughter Jessie L. Post and her husband, the love of her life for over 60 years, Paul E. "Gene" Trump. She is missed by her surviving family; Paul V. (Bonnie) and Phillip C. (Debbie) of Kearney, MO and Paula R. Post (Lyle) of Kansas City, MO. She also leaves behind seven grandchildren, Josh Trump, Laura (Trump) Braun, Sarah (Trump) Barth, Jeff Post, Jennifer (Post) Phillips, Mike Trump, Brad Trump and ten great grandchildren, Joshua and Evie Braun, Adam Barth, Colt Post, Alexandria Phillips, Haley, Annie, Joseph, Emma and Harper Trump. She was well thought of and loved by her many, many friends.
Her children wish Peace and Grace to all her many friends and caregivers at Our Lady of Mercy Country Home, Westbrook Care Center, Pleasant Valley Manor Care Center and ContinuA Hospice and suggests in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the above or to the American Cancer Society or the American Heart Association.
Friends and family visitation will be held Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 10am with Funeral Services at 11am at D.W. Newcomer's Sons White Chapel Funeral Home, 6600 N. Antioch Rd, Gladstone, MO 64119. Interment to follow at White Chapel Memorial Gardens in Gladstone, MO.