Dee (Daniels) Roshong

“Dr. Dee", as she was called by her students, was a founding member of Las Positas College in Livermore, California. She was selected, along with a maverick group of Chabot College faculty, to begin this College as, first, a counselor, then forming the College’s first counseling department and then serving as Assistant Dean, Associate Dean and finally, as Dean of Student Services at the College. She retired as Dean Emeritus in 2003, after a 41 year career in community colleges.

Dee earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree at the University of Kansas and supervised the vocal music program at Antioch Schools in Kansas City. She then moved to California to earn her Master of Arts degree in counseling psychology at Stanford University. She completed her doctorate degree at the University of San Francisco in counseling and organizational leadership. She also studied life coaching with Dave Ellis and earned a certificate in Spiritual Direction from Claritas Institute, a school for interspiritual mentors. Most recently, she completed a prayer chaplain training program and has served as prayer chaplain at Tri-Valley Unity Church since 2007.

Dee was married to Richard Roshong and later divorced.

Her long term counseling career included organizing 33 annual mental-physical health symposia for Las Positas College and Cal State East Bay. She brought the "greats" of the mind-body psychology movement to the College and University as speakers in the service of improving the health of the community. Her gift, however, was in counseling people individually. She had a deep respect for the talents of other persons and helped them to find their talent and their “rightful place” in her counseling process. She helped them to find humor in their circumstances and to therefore approach lightly their various plights, which she viewed as “life lessons”. After she retired from the College, she continued her counseling and life coaching career at Experience Unlimited and used her prayer chaplain skills at Tri-Valley Unity Church.

Dee was a talented musician and long term member of the Tri-Valley Unity Church choir, where she also served as Church Board President during the founding years of the Church and later as Vice President of the Board.

Dee's close adoptive family preceded her in death. She was adopted at 6 days old by Vernon and Doradell Daniels of Beloit, Kansas and had the blessing of two grandmothers and one grandfather in her life. She was an only child, as were her parents. She counted as her valued mentor, her cousin, Dr. Martha Peterson of Madison, Wisconsin.

In 2004, after a long term search. Dee discovered her birth family and found in them close friendships as they came to know each other in later life. They are: Jeanie Shipley, sister, of Prescott, Arizona; Ron and Rita Garner, brother and sister-in-law, of Burns Flat, Oklahoma and Tom and Carole Garner, brother and sister -in-law. of Yukon, Oklahoma. They along with many cousins and nieces and nephews, survive. Dee is also survived by her many students and friends. In particular, she is grateful for her best friend, Georgia Cestaro.

Graveside services will be held Wednesday, January 6 at 10:30 a.m at Elmwood Cemetery, Beloit.