

Visitation will be held Friday evening, Augfrom 5:00pm until 8:00pm in the River Park Chapel at Macken Funeral Home and one hour prior to the Mass at St. The Funeral Mass for Jerry will be held on Saturday, Augat 11:00AM at St. He would often say “If you have a chance to do something, you need to do it.” He made a point to remind everyone to live life with no regrets. The best things in life were the simple things. Everyone that met Jerry was certain to enjoy a story and a joke and would walk away with a smile. He was a faithful member and friend at St. He volunteered his time with 4-H Clubs, Diabetes Bike-a-thon, and the Stewartville Care Center Family Counsel. He was always present to celebrate the academic and sporting accomplishments of his grandchildren.


After retirement, he traveled with Patty to Ireland, Alaska, Hawaii, Germany, and went on Caribbean cruises and bus tours across the United States. His favorite pastime was playing cards, cribbage, dominos, horseshoes, square dancing, hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, summer trips to northern MN and Canadian lakes, bird watching, and gardening. Jerry will always be remembered as a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, and uncle. He is preceded in death by his parents, his brothers Larry, Bob, Jim, sister Jean and grandson, Nicholas. Two sisters, Yvonne (Mike) McDonald of St.Paul, MN, and MaryAnn Roth of Black River Falls, WI. Six great-grandchildren – Jack, Owen, and Lydia Fourie, Skyler and Piper Hayth and Madelyn Roth. He was blessed with six grandchildren – Angela (Werner) Fourie, Erica (Justin) Hayth, Nicholas Roth (deceased), Timothy (Megan) Roth, Christopher Roth and Dylan Beneke. He is survived by his wife, Patty Roth of Spring Grove, MN, son, Joseph (Sandy) Roth of Locust Grove, VA, daughter, Fern (Dean) Beneke of Eitzen, MN. He was employed with IBM for 31 years in Rochester, MN until his retirement in July, 1991. Bridget’s Catholic Church, Simpson, MN on August 23rd, 1958. He married Patricia “Patty” Ann Clark at St. After his Naval career, he returned to Wabasha and worked for the Milwaukee Railroad. He enlisted in the Navy and served his country honorably in the Korean War on the USS Quincy. As a young boy, he moved to Wabasha, MN and graduated from St. Jerry was born on Novemin Pepin, WI to Nick and Vera (Olsen) Roth. Gerald “Jerry” John Roth, age 88, formerly of Rochester (Simpson), MN joined the saints in Heaven on Sunday, August 21st, 2022 at Gundersen Tweeten Care Center in Spring Grove, MN with his son and daughter by his side.
