One possibility is Rugosa Magnifica. I'll put a link to the HelpMeFind listing -- the "photos" tab shows more pictures:

Here is a link that might be useful: Rugosa Magnifica

It's me again -- I changed my mind :-)

The leaves on Magnifica are different from your friend's rose.

I'll search some more and see what I can find out...

Hi petaloid, thanks for your help. I've talked with my friend and gotten some more information. The original part of the house was an old farmstead built sometime between 1900 and 1910 she thinks it may have been planted by the original owners but she isn't sure. Here's some more info she gave me on the rose.

blooms in the spring and again in the fall
3 feet high and wide
sends up suckers about 2 feet from the original all the time
2 inch blooms in clusters and singles
nice fragrance
VERY thorny

She's going to take some more pictures for me too. I'll post them as soon as I get them. I've emailed her all your suggestions with a link to HMF so she can take a look and see if any of them look right to her. I've just been working with this one picture too and didn't find anything but there are so many to look at. I don't think it's a rugosa because she says the leaves are fairly smooth and since it reblooms that rules out a galica too. I was looking at species roses but the ones I looked at were singles and this has a good petal count.

Thanks again for all your help.