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Rosetta Pauline Reschke Barnett, 74, passed away Tuesday, January 20, 2009, following a short illness. Rosetta moved to Rio Rancho, New Mexico from Oklahoma City in 2003 for retirement. She retired in 2000 from the Teachers' Retirement System of Oklahoma. She was the organist at Wickline United Methodist Church in Midwest City, Oklahoma 1975-1995. Born on the Reschke family farm in Pratt County, Kansas, October 16, 1934, she was born into a loving and musical family, and she began studying piano at a young age. She was awarded a B.A. in music from Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky in 1956. She also studied French at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Rosetta gave the gift of music and art to her children and many others. She loved the Rocky Mountains and she was instrumental in the Barnett Family acquiring part ownership of Black Mountain Guest Ranch near Creede, Colorado in 1969, where she requested to be memorialized. She was preceded in death by her parents, Vernon and Twila Reschke. She is survived by her children, Julie Hicks Barnett (The Colony, TX), M. Brian Barnett (Albuquerque, New Mexico,), Kelly V. Barnett (Parker, Colorado), F. Colin Barnett, (Libby, Montana), sisters Elaine Reschke Blumenhein (Crestone, Colorado), and Ramona Reschke Starke (Crestone & Albuquerque), ten grandchildren, her former husband , Dr. Franklin D. Barnett, MD (Midwest City, Oklahoma), and many beloved cousins, nieces, nephews, and dear friends in Colorado, California, Kansas, Mexico City, and Oklahoma among other places. Rosetta wished any gifts to be made to the Animal Humane Society's in her honor. (www.animalhumanesociety.org) or (763) 489-1589.
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