Longtime area resident Rose Callero died Nov. 30, 2012, due to complications from pneumonia. She was 99.

She was born April 10, 1913, in the Youngstown neighborhood of Seattle to Ernesto and Italia Baldi. She graduated from West Seattle High School and married Louie Callero from Black Diamond in December 1931. They lived in West Seattle, Mercer Island, Back Diamond and Enumclaw. Following her husband’s death in November 2000, she moved to Kirkland where she spent the last 12 years living at High Woodlands Adult Family Home. She was a business woman, operating grocery stores and working in a bank.

She is survived by sons Vern Callero and wife Diane of Palm Springs, Calif., and Gary Callero and wife Mary Lou of Kirkland, Wash.; 19 grandchildren, 43 great-grandchildren and nine great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by three sisters, a brother and one infant daughter.

A funeral Mass is planned for 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Enumclaw. Burial will be at Enumclaw Evergreen Memorial Park.

Remembrances may be made to any cancer fund of the donor’s choice.