Rosemarie Ellen Hillebrand, 57 of Cat Hole Road in Claremont, died Sunday morning, June 19, 2005 at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon.   She was born in Elizabeth, NJ on November 20, 1947 the daughter of Stanley and Mary (Kniazynski) Rutkowski and had resided in Claremont since 1976. 

She was a graduate of Arthur L. Johnson High School in Clark, NJ in 1965 and received her Associates Degree from New Hampshire Community Technical College in Claremont.   Ms. Hillebrand worked as a financial assistant at the Student Conservation Association on the River Road in North Charlestown for the past five years.

She was a communicant of St Joseph Church, a member of the Claremont Country Club, Emblem Club, Elks Club, Polish-American Citizens Club and Off Broad Street Players.   She was very fond of her cats, loved gardening where she had a special green thumb and especially enjoyed golf.

The surviving family includes three children, Victoria L. Kendziora and her husband, Thaddeus of Port St Lucie, FL, Michael T. Hillebrand of Baltimore, MD and Aimee M. Hillebrand of Boston, MA; her mother, Mary Rutkowski of Clark, NJ and aunts, uncles and cousins.  She was pre-deceased by her father, Stanley in 1995.

Friends may call at the Stringer Funeral Home, 146 Broad Street in Claremont on Tuesday evening from 6 to 9 PM.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Wednesday morning, June 22^nd at Eleven O’clock in St Joseph Church with Rev. Father Stanley J. Piwowar, Pastor officiating.

Friends may call at the Krowicki-Gorny Funeral Home, 211 Westfield Ave., Clarke, NJ on Thursday evening from 7 to 9 PM.

Interment will be in St. Gertrude Cemetery in Colonia, NJ.

The family suggest that donations may be made in her memory to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, 5005 LBJ Freeway, Suite 250, Dallas, TX 75244.