Rosalie Koedam

Rosalie “Rosie” ( James) Koedam, age 76, passed away Saturday, March 11, 2023. She was born April 27, 1946, at the Toledo Hospital to RoseEmma & Orville James of Curtice, OH. She attended Jerusalem Elementary and Clay High School.

Rosalie retired from The University of Toledo Medical Center formerly The Medical College of Ohio in 2006. She was a past member and officer of “The Key to The Sea” Business and Professional Women’s Club, the Maumee Elks, lodge 1858, and a past member, for over 40 years, of the Eastern Stars.

Rosie enjoyed working with stained glass, sewing and traveling. She especially enjoyed her Euchre group of over 40 years with lifelong friends, Twila, Petra, Mary Jane, Ginny, Dee K., Dee M. and Elaine.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Orville G and RoseEmma (Goodwin) James, infant Brother Robert Ellis James, Sister Patricia Garey and Maternal Grandparents, Edna (Fenn) and Clifford Earl Goodwin. Paternal Grandparents, Marie (Gruiser) and John James. Aunts and Uncles, Alice and Stanley James, Katherine & Ty James, Ervin James, Marie (James) and Warren Karchner, Hyacinth (James) and George Lantz, Muriel & Russell Goodwin, Roberta (Goodwin) & Louis Ruidisch and Nancy and Richard Goodwin.

Rosie is survived by her husband of 60 years, Thomas F. Koedam and their four children, Thomas Koedam II, James (Heidi) Koedam, Robert Koedam and Debra (Norm) Gyori , and sisters Roberta Fulkert and Orleen Rice.

Rosalie was blessed with nine Grandchildren, Ashley (Marshall) Carney, Nicholas Herroon, Chelsea (Brad) Rosebraugh, Dana (Chris) Jennings, Scott Koedam, Nash Gyori, Emily Koedam, Annabelle Koedam and Isabella Koedam, and nine Great Grandchildren: Hazel and Scarlett Carney, Tinnley Herroon, Wesley and Keegan Hymore, Ellis Jennings, Henry and Luke Rosebraugh, and Charlotte and MaciJo Koedam.

Family & friends are invited to a celebration of Rosalie’s life with a memorial gathering at Sujkowski-Walker Funeral Home, 830 Lime City Rd, Rossford, OH, on March 18, 2023 from 2-6 pm .

Those wishing to make an expression of sympathy in Rosalie’s memory are asked to consider Hospice of Northwest Ohio.