Laura (Snitker) Russett - 1909-1991

SNITKER, GROTEGUT, RUSSETT, CHAPIN, OHLOFF, KUTZBACH, KOZELKA, MILLER, BASKERVILLE, BLUMHAGEN

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 7/21/2011 at 16:49:11

SOURCE: Postville, Iowa POSTVILLE HERALD-LEADER, November 27, 1991
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Funeral services for Laura Russett, age 82, were held Thursday, November 21, 1991 at 2:00 p.m. in the Community Presbyterian Church at Postville, Iowa. The Rev. Terrance P. Hennesy officiated. Schutte Funeral Service of Postville, Iowa was in charge of arrangements. Burial was in the Postville Cemetery. Casket bearers were Steven Russett, Keith Kutzbach, Don Wirkler, Reuben Kruse, William Baskerville, Kenneth W. Russett, Dr. Kenneth I. Miller, and Zane Russett.

Laura Wilhelmine (Snitker) Russett, daughter of Daniel and Clara (Grotegut) Snitker, Sr. was born April 18, 1909 in Ludlow Township near Waukon, Iowa. She attended the rural school, Ludlow No. 4 and also the Frankville School. On August 2, 1926 she married Oscar John Russett in the parsonage at Decorah, Iowa. They had four children. The Russetts lived in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for several years where Oscar was employed as a painter. Later they moved to a farm in Ludlow Township and then to a farm near Luana, Iowa. In 1967 they retired and built their present home in Monona, Iowa. Laura was a member of the Community Presbyterian Church in Postville, Iowa.

She passed away Sunday, November 17, 1991 in the Veterans Memorial Hospital at Waukon, Iowa. She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Oscar, who died April 21, 1991; 2 sons, Ronald Russett and Richard Russett; and 2 brothers, Harold Snitker and Leonard Snitker.

Surviving are a son, Roger (Mary Jane) of Postville, Iowa, a daughter, Cheryl (Rick) Chapin of Portland, Oregon; a daughter-in-law, Darlene Russett of Des Moines, Iowa; 10 grandchildren, Steven Russett, Wendy Ohloff, Dixie Kutzbach, Tracy Kozelka, Brenda Miller, Margie Baskerville, Kenneth Russett, Valerie Russett, Maree Russett, and Zane Russett; 3 step-grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and 6 sisters-in-law, Bertha Snitker of Wisconsin, Agnes Blumhagen of Castalia, Iowa, Grace Russett of Postville, Iowa, Dorothy Russett of Calmar, Iowa, Lorraine Russett of Waukon, Iowa and Mae Russett of Ulysses, Kansas.