GARRARD, Ruth I. (STOCKWELL) DeKRUIF

STOCKWELL, DEKRUIF, GARRARD, CASSLER, ZIMMER, SHEPHERD, LASSAHN, JACOBSMA, PAULSON, NELSON

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/30/2018 at 20:43:56

Obituary ~ Ruth I. (Stockwell) DeKruif Garrard
May 14, 1921 ~ December 30, 1998

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
January 01, 1999

MASON CITY — Ruth I. "DeKruif" Garrard, 77, of 304 Third St. N.E., died Wednesday (Dec. 30, 1998) at her home.

Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Saturday at the Wayside Chapel, of First United Methodist Church, 119 S. Georgia Ave., with the Rev. Douglas Anderson officiating. Interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania and one hour before services on Saturday at the church.

Memorials may be given to the Ruth I. DeKruif Garrard Memorial Fund.

Ruth was born May 14, 1921, in Wesley, the daughter of Gale and Beatrice (Cassler) Stockwell. She grew up in Sheldon, Iowa, and lived there until she was 16, when the family moved to Algona. She graduated from Algona High School.

Ruth was married to William DeKruif on Feb. 2, 1941, in Algona. They moved to Mason City in 1945. William died on Oct. 12, 1975.

Ruth worked for the Mason City Schools at Washington Elementary School in the Food Service for 10 years before retiring in 1974.

She married William Garrard on May 24, 1986. He died in 1991.

Ruth enjoyed making quilts, embroidering, dancing and traveling. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Sarah Circle, GGG Sorority, Moose Auxiliary, and the Postal Auxiliary. She was a former member of the Grandmothers Club.

Survivors include one daughter, Barbara Zimmer and her husband, Steven, of Mason City; sons, William J. DeKruif and his wife, Barbara, of Garner and Chris P. DeKruif, of Mason City; seven grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; sisters, Ilene Shepherd, of Washta, Iowa and June Lassahn, of Saginaw, Mich.; sisters-in-law, Effie Jacobsma, of Sibley, Annie Paulson, of Sheldon, and Pauline DeKruif, of Sheldon; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her first and second husbands, sister, Marie Nelson; and brother, Robert D. Stockwell.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2018