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Kruse, Ardyce Jean (1925-2018)

KRUSE, JOHNSON, MONSON, SANDERSON, OWENS, BETZ, BOESE, TIMM, GARBER, GRACE, MCCLARY

Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 6/19/2018 at 20:52:34

Ardyce Kruse
November 24, 1925 - June 6, 2018

Ardyce Kruse, age 92, of Albert City, Iowa, died on June 6, 2018, at the Pleasant View Home in Albert City.

Ardyce Jean Johnson was born on a farm near Sioux Rapids, Iowa, on November 24, 1925, to George H. and Josephine (Monson) Johnson. She was the youngest of the family which included older brother, John, and older sisters, Leah and Margaret. Baptized in infancy at the German Lutheran Church in Buffalo Lake, Minnesota, she joined the First Methodist Church in Sioux Rapids at age10 and started her teaching career as a Sunday school teacher, a position she held for several years.

Ardyce received her grade school education at Cornell Consolidated schools before transferring to Sioux Rapids for her junior high and senior high school years. The Valedictorian of the Sioux Rapids Class of 1943, she completed twelve weeks of classes at Buena Vista College in Storm Lake after graduating from high school to earn a State of Iowa teaching certificate. She taught rural school at Lincoln #7 in Buena Vista County for two years followed by two years at the Greenville Rossie Schools. She maintained her teaching certificate by taking classes at Buena Vista College. After raising her children, she taught school at Marathon, Iowa, for ten years.

On June 22, 1947, Ardyce married Rollie W. Kruse. They made their home on the farm right across the road from her first teaching assignment at Lincoln #7. To their union, three children were born: Marcia, Glen, and Gary. When she and Rollie married, Ardyce joined St John’s Evangelical and Reformed Church of rural Newell, Iowa. A member of the church’s Women’s Fellowship, she, at one time, served as the group’s president and as its treasurer when St. John’s UCC closed in 2012.

Ardyce enjoyed farm life. She helped Rollie raise the livestock and the crops while raising the children. A Girl Scout leader and a Cub Scout leader, she welcomed many a stranded motorist into their home on highway 3. As travelers themselves, Rollie and Ardyce got to see the country from Washington DC to the state of Washington. All in all, they, most, enjoyed Yellowstone, the Black Hills, the wheat fields of Montana, and fishing in Minnesota. Later in life, Rollie and Ardyce learned to Polka. Indeed, most weekends would find them at Polka Festivals and Ballroom dances in northwest Iowa and southwest Minnesota. Moreover, they made many new friends from all over the United States at those dances.

Ardyce was preceded in death by her husband, Rollie; her parents; her parents-in-laws; her brother, John; and her sisters, Leah Sanderson and Margaret Owens; her brothers-in-law, Don Sanderson, Dee Owens, Phil Betz, Roger Olson, and Kenneth Boese; and her sisters-in-law, Geneva Betz, Verna Olson, and Ann Johnson.

Those left to cherish her memory include her children: Marcia Timm, of Salem, Oregon, Glen (Pat) Kruse, of Sioux City, Iowa, and Gary Kruse of Albert City, Iowa; her grandchildren: Andrea (Gayland) Garber; Nicole Grace; Allison (Jeremy Ramasir), Derek, Justin (Jodee), and Kevin Kruse; and Jeremy, Stephanie (Paul Stetler), and Chad (Sonja) Timm; her great grandchildren: Aubrie Grace; Kami and Karli Kruse; Nia McClary; Hayes and Sylvie Stetler; and Gabriel and Tyler Timm; her sister-in-law, Jeanette Boese; and her brother-in-law, Roger (Jane) Kruse; as well as extended family members and friends.

Funeral services will be held Monday, June 11, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. at the First United Church in Sioux Rapids. Burial will follow in the Lone Tree Cemetery. Visitation will take place Sunday, June 10, 2018, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake. The Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake is in charge of the arrangements.

Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Homes, Storm Lake, Iowa, 2018.


 

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