Paul Duane Rosenbaum

SIOUX CITY -- Paul Duane Rosenbaum I, 68, of Sioux City died Monday, June 6, 2011.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Larkin Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Home, with the Rev. Kenneth Leischner of First Congregational United Church of Christ officiating. Burial will be in Westfield (Iowa) Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the services Thursday at the funeral home.
Paul Duane Rosenbaum I was born May 28, 1943, to Robert and Sylvia Rosenbaum of South Dakota. He was the first of four brothers, Roy, Rodney and Terry. Paul graduated high school in Elk Point, S.D., in 1962.
He met his wife Dorothy in Fairfield, Iowa, while he was working as a telephone cable splicer and Dorothy was staying there with her sister Sylvia and working. They were married Dec. 14, 1963, at Dorothy's home church in Bigfork, Minn. They moved to Jefferson, S.D., where Paul worked as a welder for North American Manufacturing. Their first daughter, Andrea, was born in Sioux City. They moved to Mound, Minn., where Paul worked for Stainless Steel Manufacturing and their other three children were born, Karla, Paul II and Cheryl.
Paul and Dorothy moved to Longview, Wash., after losing their home in Mound to a house fire. Paul worked at Longview Fiber as a welder, maintenance foreman and fabricator. He remodeled houses and sold them on the side. He had a fabrication and welding shop at each house.
He was an avid vegetable and flower gardener. He rebuilt classic autos, coached youth football and spent plenty of quality time with friends and family. He was an avid Elks club member.
He spent 14 years living in and raising his family in Longview. Paul moved back to the Elk Point-Jefferson area in 1982, where he owned and operated his own welding and fabrication shop. Paul eventually shut down his business and went to work for Dryden Ammonia Refrigeration where he started a new career in industrial refrigeration. He worked for Mechanical Refrigeration Corp. of Sioux City with his son Paul for many years. He assisted his son starting up his own company of RC and S Inc., located in Jefferson. He worked for John Morrell in Sioux City as a refrigeration tech. He acquired his city refrigeration operator's licenses and maintained them until his death. His final job was as a refrigeration tech for Wells Blue Bunny in Le Mars, Iowa. He often said that was the best job of his life. He met many good friends while working at Wells.
Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Dorothy; four children, Andrea Feller of Elk Point, Karla Evans of Vermillion, S.D., Paul Rosenbaum II of Sioux City, and Cheryl Rosenbaum of Vermillion; 14 grandchildren, Dustin, Kevin, Brittany, Jessica, Nicole, Timothy, Samantha, Tasha, Bradly, Josh, Katherine, Laura, Alyssa and Hailey; four great-grandchildren and one on the way, Jeweliana, Aiden, Quentin and Makayla; his mother, Sylvia; his brothers, Roy, Rodney and Terry; and numerous nieces and nephews.