March 19, 2024

Rosa Carpio Santos

May 12, 2017

Rosa Carpio Santos, 65, of Oskaloosa, formerly of Newton and Olongapo City, Phillipines, died Friday, May 12, 2017, in an automobile accident in Poweshiek County.

Rosa’s funeral mass will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 24 at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 305 E. Howard St. in Colfax. The family will greet friends from 9 a.m. until the time of service on Wednesday, May 24 at the church.

Memorials to the family (please make checks payable to Mercy Meador or to Ben Carpio) may be left at the church the day of the service or at the Wallace Family Funeral Home & Crematory in Newton. Memorials may also be mailed to the funeral home, please add, Attention: Santos Family on the envelope.

Those left to cherish Rosa’s memory are her sons, Richard Santos, Joy (Geraldine) Santos, Victor (Vanny) Santos and Albert Santos, all of Olongapo City, Philippines; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; her siblings, Ben (Kristina) Carpio of Oskaloosa, Mercy (Richard) Meador of Newton, Fely Jaduko of the Philippines and Federico (Ruby) Carpio, Jr. of Australia.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Apolinario Santos; brother, Agripino Cundangan; and sister, Demetria Esparas.