The funeral service took place at 2:30 pm PST on Saturday, May 3, 2025
Genevieve Rosewood
May 2, 1950 - April 15, 2025
Dear friends,
Genevieve Rosewood, a beloved member of the Apollo Center of the Fellowship of Friends, completed her task on Tuesday, April 15, 2025, dying of cancer and organ failure.
Genevieve was born on May 2, 1950, and joined the Fellowship in Washington, D.C., on her 26th birthday, May 2, 1976. Over the decades, she supported the school as a member of the Chicago, San Francisco, and Apollo centers. She was 74 years old on her last birthday.
A friend noted, “Although Genevieve endured a variety of health issues throughout her life, she consistently chose to transform her suffering into an ever-strengthening conscious light. She did not let her conditions prevent her from serving the school in her many octaves, whether for the Fellowship or Apollo Arts. She was there for you, when you were most in need. A true friend, a true inspiration for us all.”
On behalf of all who knew you, we give thanks.
The Elysian Society
Funeral Service Text: Genevieve Rosewood 2025-05
Realize what the true object is in life, that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself,
‘that last infirmity of noble minds,’ but that it is the development of character,
the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man,
and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore,
death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
Lewis Carroll
Thank you for your sweet and pleasant companionship, dear Genevieve; it was a pleasure to get to know you in this lifetime ~ much love always.
My Sweet Genevieve,
A rose by any other name would Be as sweet.
Your joyful spirit and Presence was contagious and always elevated those around you.
I am very grateful for the great fortune to have had you in my life for so nearly half a century.
Fly on the wings of Love, my darling friend!
With all my love,
Rosalind
Dearest Genevieve, we are a gift for each other from C Influence, Robert and Steven.
We enjoyed the life together a lot, celebrating life in many different ways it was our specialty.
Enjoying beauties, all of them we could, gathering with friends…
Untold simple moments created beautiful and eternal memories, they were full of presence and joy.
We were for each other in good and hard times, making the good ones precious and the hard ones easier to pass along.
Thank you my dear friend, sister in spirit and heart, for had lived with me so many moments that were immortalized in our soul.
Love you forever.