Isabel Rohrer age 92 of Paola passed away March 31 at the Life Care Center in Osawatomie after a long illness. Memorials to the Miami County Historical and Genealogy Museum.

Isabel was born February 23, 1919 on the Rohrer family farm in Stanton Township, daughter of Frederick E. and Pearle Lane Rohrer.

She attended Mound Valley School District 81. She graduated from Osawatomie High School in 1936 and then attended Ursuline Academy College in Paola.

Isabel worked in Kansas City for Methodist Publishing House and Jeanerette Portrait Studio. She was later employed at the Osawatomie State hospital and then the John Brown Museum in Osawatomie.

Isabel was interested in tracing her families’ ancestry. Isabel attended the 100th annual Rohrer family reunion in Goshen, Indiana in 2006. She did a lot of traveling and visited all 50 states, and Canada nine times, and in 1995 traveled to the rainforest in Peru.

Isabel was an advocate for preservation of active prairie grassland. She had many hobbies including, oil painting, photography, flowers, gardening, and bird watching and enjoyed participating in bird counts.

Isabel is preceded in death by her parents, two brothers Frederick E. Rohrer Jr., and Daryl D. Rohrer and two sisters, Rebecca Rohrer and Helen Barnett and great niece Alyssa Sherman.

She is survived by seven nieces and nephews and their families, cousin Bernice Rohrer and sister-in law Marie Rohrer. She will be greatly missed by family and friends.

Visitation will be Wednesday, April 6, 2011from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, with services following at Penwell-Gabel, Paola Chapel, 305 N. Pearl, Parola, KS 66071, 913-29402372. Interment, Paola Cemetery.