All is well. “Death is nothing at all; I have only slipped into the next room…” – Henry Scott Holland
With heavy hearts, we announce the home going of Rolf Ernest Joseph Gerdau on Monday, February 6, 2023 at the Monument Care and Rehabilitation Center.
He was born on May 18, 1954 to Ernest and Edith (Kutschke) Gerdau in Alliance, Nebraska. A member of the 1972 graduating class of St. Agnes Academy, he went on to earn his college degree in 1976 at the Creighton University. He worked subsequently with the Creighton University, the Peace Corp, Home TV of Alliance, and retired with the Postal Service of Alliance.
He is survived by his daughter Angela Regina Korpo Gerdau of Liberia – West Africa, half brother and sisters of Buxtehude -Germany, Aunt Donna Kutschke and cousins Dave and Karla Kutschke of Alliance- Nebraska, cousins Donna Kutschke, Mary Kutschke, and Lora Kutschke Miller of Canada, and close friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents, brother and infant son.
In keeping with his nature and wish, he has been cremated, and a private thanksgiving and memorial mass will be held. Interment with immediate family will take place at the Calvary Cemetery, Alliance Nebraska.
Rolf was an outstanding artist, a man of great ideologies, a comic fan, a “starving fisherman artist” (great sense of humor), and an explorer of different cultures; he lived a wholesome life.
His memories will live on in the hearts and minds of everyone he interacted with as well as those he was unable to reach in his later years. Fond memories and condolences may be left at www.dugankramer.com. Dugan Kramer Funeral Chapel is assisting the family with arrangements.