Marlee Ann Redwolf Rave

Marlee Ann Redwolf Rave, age 26 of Mankato, entered the Spirit World on Friday, July 12, 2024.

 Private family services will be held. Woodland Hills Funeral Home of Mankato is assisting the family with arrangements. www.woodlandhillsfh.com

 Marlee Ann Redwolf Rave was born on November 6, 1997 in Des Moines, Iowa to Thornton L. Rave and Debra Ann Watterson. She graduated from Death Valley Academy High School in Death Valley, CA. in 2015.  Marlee started her career as a waitress and server for Xanterra Parks and Resorts in Death Valley CA., and most recently was employed at Buffalo Wild Wings in Mankato. Marlee enjoyed skateboarding, snowboarding, hiking, and being outdoors in nature. She loved time spent with her family and friends.

 She is survived by her father, Thornton Rave of North Mankato; mother, Debra Watterson of Death Valley, CA; brother, Chaska Rave of Omaha, NE; by many other relatives and friends.

 She was preceded in death by her grandparents.

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my

side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze

and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of

beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until

at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud

just where the sea and sky come to mingle with

each other. Then someone at my side says:

“There, she is gone!”

“Gone where?”

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large

in a mast and hull and spar as she was when she left

my side and she is just as able to bear the load of

living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And

just at the moment when someone at my side says:

“There, She is gone!” There are other eyes watching

her coming, and other voices ready to take up the

glad shout: “Here she comes!

And that is dying…

                                                                -A 19th Century Funeral Sermon-