Former City Clerk Deneen Frost passes away

Our former City Clerk Deneen Frost passed away last Friday after a 25 year fight with cancer. Yeah 25 years. She had a bout with cancer at around age 20, and they were able to get it in remission. It came back a bit in 2004 I think, and they were able to get it knocked down there too. But in late 2010, it came back with a vengeance. It got to be a big enough problem they she needed to retire from work in early 2011. And she fought it right up to the end, until she finally passed away at home, surrounded by her human family and her beloved 4 legged family too.

Deneen was City Clerk from 1995 to 2011. I first met her when I moved to town in 1997, and started working with her when I first got on the city council in 1999. It was quickly obvious she loved being City Clerk and took great pride in dotting all the "i"s and crossing all the "t"s that need to be done in running a city.

Even though she retired, she was a great help in the transition we needed to do to get our new clerk Jodi up to speed. She had her up and down days with the cancer, but if she was up, she always took a phone call to help out.

She leaves her husband Larry here in Roland. Deneen was buried in her home town of Rockwell City. She was 47 years old.

Here is a cached photo of Deneen from a few years ago that I found on the net.

Here is a link to the obituary on the funeral home's website.