Kind, friendly and fun. What more could you want in an aunt? She made the world a nicer place!! May she rest in peace.
Leona M. Roden
February 9, 1929 – April 26, 2023
Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in St. Cloud for Leona M. Roden, 94, of St. Cloud. Leona passed away on Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at the Sauk Centre Care Center. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, St. Cloud.
Visitation will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday at the church.
Leona was born on February 9, 1929 in St. Cloud to the late Joseph H. and Ellen (Barlow) Primus. She married Walter Roden on June 15, 1948 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in St. Cloud. She lived in St. Cloud all of her life and served as the Fraternal Secretary to St. Joseph’s-St. Margaret’s Catholic United Financial for many years and was a member of St. Peter’s Parish since 1959.
Leona is survived by her daughter, Joan (Kevin) Zimmer of Sauk Centre; son-in-law, Michael Podtburg of Little Falls, 8 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren; sisters-in-law, Sadie Roden and Betty Roden; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband; Walter in 2014; children, Patrick in 2001, Joyce Podtburg in 2020; brothers, John, Edward, Robert, Jerome, Clarence, Charles and Joseph Primus; and sisters, Ellen Voigt, Alice Hahn, Anna Proell, Frances Paige-Smoot, Theresia Meyer, Evelyn Lindmeier, Sr. Idamarie Primus, OSB and Emily Primus.
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My last Aunt! Always a necessary part of the Primus family renuions. May God bless her, may she rest in peace and we send our prayers and best wishes to her family.
She was always so nice, Always came to the reunions.. Her & Wally were so good together..Prayers & thoughts for the family..
Thank you for sharing Leona with me she will be missed….I will remember are laughs and our tears and her best hug’s…..may she rest in peace.
Our sympathy on the loss of your mother. She was an officer with St. Margaret’s/St. Joseph’s when I first joined Catholic Aid. Our council will have two masses offered for the repose of her soul.
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Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in St. Cloud for Leona M. Roden, 94, of St. Cloud. Leona passed away on Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at the Sauk Centre Care Center. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, St. Cloud.
Visitation will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday at the church.