CLAPPER, Ruth V. 1911 - 1995

CLAPPER, ERICKSON, PRESTHOLT, SCHULZE, POWERS, ORCUTT

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 1/27/2014 at 23:10:52

RUTH V. CLAPPER

Ruth V. Clapper, 83, of Clear Lake, died Friday, Jan. 6, 1995, at the Muse-Norris Hospice In-Patient Unit, Mason City, Iowa.

Funeral services were held Monday, Jan. 9, at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake, with the Rev. Dennis Ganz officiating.

Burial was in the Elim Cemetery, Fertile, Iowa. The family suggests memorials in memory of Ruth V. Clapper to Hospice of North Iowa or Church of Christ in Fertile.

Ethel Ruth Viola Clapper was born Sept. 5, 1911, in Grant Center Township, rural Clear Lake, the daughter of Nels and Anna (Erickson) Prestholt. She attended Grant Center #5 Rural School until the eighth grade. She graduated from Fertile High School in 1929 and then took a nursing course through Mayo Hospital in Rochester, Minn.

On July 6, 1934, she was united in marriage to Dallas L. Clapper, in Mason City, Iowa. The couple farmed north of Clear Lake and also operated Clapper Truck Line. They moved into Clear Lake in 1962, but later moved to the family farm.

Ruth was a Sunday School teacher and superintendent at Grant Center Sunday School. She enjoyed raising flowers, knitting and fishing with her family and husband.

She is survived by a son, Dale Clapper and his wife, Janice K., of Clear Lake; a daughter, Blanche Schulze of Clear Lake; six grandchildren, Denise Powers and her husband, Jeff, of Panama, David Clapper and his wife, Christie of Buffalo Center, Chad Clapper and his wife Angela, Clear Lake, Rick Schulze and his wife, Holly, of Buffalo Center, Bruce Schulze and his wife, Diane, Clear Lake, and Jeffrey Schulze and his wife, Rhonda, Garner; 11 great-grandchildren, Alicia Powers, Christina Powers, Joshua Schulze, Danielle Schulze, Jeremy Schulze, Nichole Schulze, Steven Schulze, Ryan Schulze, Heather Schulze, Megan Schulze and Chad Phillips.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; a brother, Alfred Prestholt; and two sisters, Ethel Julianna Prestholt, and Verna Orcutt.

Organist Amy Kuns accompanied soloists Kathy Bauer and Dan Miller.Pallbearers were Don Prestholt, Paul Prestholt, Richard Clapper, Gene Johnson, Gary Bauer and Larry Nelson.