MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER, POET AND PROFESSOR AT UMASS BOSTON

Deeply loved wife, nurturing mother
and grandmother, professor, and poet, Rosamond Rauch Rosenmeier died on
December 29, 2011, at the age of 83. Rosamond was born on July 4, 1928, in
Pasadena, California, and was raised in California and New York by Charles
Herbert Rauch and Harriet (Goodsell) Rauch. Boundless energy, passion for life,
and remarkable empathy were among her many strengths.

She is survived by her loving family: husband Jesper; and children, Jason Field (Susan Moreno), Twyla Ramos (Manuel Ramos), Alan Field (Louisa Terrell), Peter Rosenmeier (Sara Smith), and Leah Morine Rosenmeier (Randall Morine); and twelve grandchildren (Rachel, Malcolm, Angus, Donald, Jackson, Emily, Olivia, Erik, Gwyneth, Asa, Thomas and Annie).

Rosamond attended Mount Holyoke College (B.A. 1950), earned a master’s degree at Radcliffe College (1960) and her doctorate at Harvard University (1971). She authored three books, including two volumes of poetry, Lines Out (1989) and Where Light Answers Light (2007) and a biography of Anne Bradstreet, Anne Bradstreet Revisited (1991) as well as editing a volume of poems by Cuban poet Excilia Saldana (with Flora M. Gonzalez-Mandri) In the Vortex of the Cyclone. (2002) Rosamond taught writing and literature at the University of Massachusetts at Boston (1971-1990), and later at the Andover Newton Theological School. Her students recognized her as a “beautiful, exceptional” person.

A member of the congregation of the Church of the Good Shepherd, in Watertown, Massachusetts, where she is grieved for deeply.

Services will be held Saturday, January 21 at 2:00PM at the church, located at 9 Russell Avenue. In lieu of flowers, gifts to the church are welcomed in
remembrance.

Arrangements under the care of Dee Funeral Home of Concord, Susan M. Dee and Charles W. Dee, Jr. , Funeral Directors.

IF you wish to share a remembrance in the guest book please visit www.deefuneralhome.com

Memorials:

In lieu of flowers, gifts to the Church of the Good Shepherd, 9 Russell Avenue,
Watertown, MA 02476.



Service:

Services will be held Saturday, January 21 at 2:00PM at the church, located at
9 Russell Avenue.