Services will be at 2:00 PM Friday, February 20, 2004 at Brooks Chapel in Canyon, Texas. She will be buried in Memory Gardens Cemetery. Rose Alice Starkey Powell Stinson, a high school speech and drama teacher and little theater play director for most of her adult life made her final curtain call on February 14, 2004 seven days after her 91st birthday. Rose was the last of nine children born to Thomas Benjamin and Alice Texas Starkey. Rose was born on February 7, 1913 in Plymouth, Texas. Shortly thereafter the Starkeys moved to Wellington where she was raised and attended school. After serving as a football queen and finishing Wellington High she married one of the football captains, Raymond L. Powell and was off to then West Texas State Teachers College to major in speech and drama. Rose knew early in life that her calling was teaching. Upon getting her teaching certification during the depression years, she taught private lessons and in the public schools for the next three plus decades at Waka, Prairie View, Samnorwood, Dodson, Union, Hart, Perry ton, Amarillo and Liberal, Kansas. She mixed this with acting, directing plays and producing variety shows, always including as many people as possible. She started teaching in elementary school, coached boys" basketball during the war and then found her niche teaching speech and drama in high school. She was also a guidance counselor, and a special education teacher. She directed plays at the Amarillo Theater. Retiring as a regular teacher she and husband Leroy Stinson moved to Lake Havasu City, AZ. where she helped start a dinner theater and directed plays at the community theater for another fourteen years. When they moved to the Canyon Palo Duro Village, she started directing variety shows using the talents of other retirees who lived at the Village. She was in her mid 80"s when she directed her last show. Rose was never idle. When she wasn"t taking classes during the summer, she worked at something else. One summer she worked at an airplane factory in New York during WW II and then came home and started up a hamburger stand. Wherever she went she made friends, had a marvelous time and always took time to think of others. Late in life, she began taking art lessons and painted several pictures. A stay at home soccer mom she wasn"t, but she was a great loving and fun mom to her two surviving children, a son Col. Raymond R. Powell USMC (Ret) and his wife Beverly of Fairfax, Va. and her daughter Barbara Rose Laughlin and her husband Bob of Austin, TX. She leaves seven grandchildren and nineteen great-grand children. Husbands Raymond L. Powell and Leroy D. Stinson preceded her in death. Teacher, artist, counselor, actress, Mother, Grandmother and Great-grandmother with more color than a rainbow, she will be greatly missed.