Rosalie K. Malo, age 56, of Brookings, South Dakota, died Sunday, October 9, 2005, at Brookview Manor in Brookings. Memorial services will be at Ascension Lutheran Church in Brookings on Monday, October 17, 2005 at 10:30 am. Visitation will be at the church on Sunday, October 16, 2005 from 3 to 6 pm. In lieu of flowers, memorials should be directed to the Malo Diversity Endowment at the South Dakota State University Foundation. Rosalie Kay (Pitzen) Malo was born December 5, 1948, at Osage, Iowa, to Alfred Nicholas and Mary Anna (Reding) Pitzen. She grew up on the family dairy farm, and was active in 4-H. She was chosen as Mitchell County Dairy Princess. In 1967, she graduated from Marian High School in Stacyville, Iowa, and received a B.S. degree in Textiles and Clothing from Iowa State University in 1971. On December 26, 1970, she married Douglas D. Malo in Stacyville. Rosie was the head secretary for the Horticulture Department at North Dakota State University from 1971 until 1975. The Malos moved to Brookings in 1975, where Rosie operated a daycare center until 2004. She cared for four to eight children each day, over fifty kids, fulltime, in thirty years. Rosie was an active member of Ascension Lutheran Church. Her activities included the Mission Action Program, ALCW treasurer, quilting group, Sunday School teacher, banner-making, ALCW circle, and chair of the Church and Community Board. She organized the construction, finishing, and information for the new Chrismon tree ornaments. She served as a 4-H leader, and Odyssey of the Mind coach and city program coordinator. She enjoyed quilting, cross-stitch, gardening, baking/cooking, walking with the neighbors and her daycare kids, photography, travel, and caring for others of all ages, but especially children 1 to 7 years old. She worked in several service projects in Pine Ridge, at an orphanage in South Korea for three months, and in Haiti with the solar oven project. She had taken three trips to Bolivia to help with the development of a small university to help the rural poor. Survivors include her husband, Douglas Malo, of Brookings; two children: Robert J. (Marin) Malo, of Bozeman, Montana, and Denise M. (Mark) Miller of Rapid City, South Dakota; a grandson, Ethan Malo of Bozeman, Montana; her mother, Mary Pitzen, of Stacyville, Iowa; five siblings: Gene Pitzen of Stacyville, Iowa, Mary Jane (Jim) Mauer of Lisle, Illinois, Betty Ann (Marly) Stoltenberg of Mason City, Iowa, Carol (Vaughn) Rossum of Osage, Iowa, and Ronnie (Becky) Pitzen of Stacyville, Iowa; a sister-in-law, Vernie (James) Pitzen of Austin, Minnesota; her father-in-law and mother-in-law, Robert and Laurel Malo, of Sherburn, Minnesota and a sister-in-law, Georgiann (John) Pfaffinger, of Fairmont, Minnesota. She was preceded in death by her father, a brother, James Pitzen, and a sister-in-law, Jane(Gene) Pitzen.