Ringstad, May Elizabeth Nelson (1911-2002)

RINGSTAD, NELSON, MADSEN, JOHNSON, SWEET, ANDERSON

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 10/15/2022 at 16:01:40

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Friday, July 12, 2002

May Ringstad, 91, Webster City, died Tuesday, July 9, 2002 at her home in Webster City. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 13 at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Webster City with Rev. Doug Tiffany to officiate. Burial will be in the Evergreen Cemetery in Jewell. Friends may call Friday evening from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Becker Funeral Home in Jewell.

May Elizabeth Nelson was born May 3, 1911 near Jewell to Charles A. and Marie M. (Madsen) Nelson. She was baptized and confirmed at Bethesda Lutheran Church in Jewell. May was a 1928 graduate of Jewell High School. On Sept. 28, 1929, May married Ray Orville Ringstad in Webster City. She had worked at the Strand Cafe in Jewell, was the Jewell City Clerk and worked in the Hamilton County Auditor's office at the courthouse in Webster City. They moved to Webster City in 1961. May loved to golf and was a member of the Webster City Golf and Country Club. She was also a member to Trinity Lutheran Church in Webster City and the Order of the Eastern Star.

May is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Roger and Sharon Ringstad of Altoona and Gary and Char Ringstad of Webster City; a daughter-in-law, LeeAnn Ringstad of Jewell; 11 grandchildren, Robert, Dale, Scott, Kelly, Kirk, Craig, Brenda, Judy, Kristy, Jill and Lynette; 15 great-grandchildren, Derek, Jacob, Traci, Seth, Lauren, Adam, Timothy, Breanna, Tara, Joseph, Brett, Karly, Drew, Brett and Matthew; and three sisters, Tina Johnson of Jewell, Betty Sweet of Brainerd, Minn., and Luella Anderson of Akeley, Minn. May was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Ray in 1998; an infant daughter, Ava Nell; a son, Ronald; grandson, Jeff; two great-grandchildren, Jared and Bailey, and five brothers, Robert, Sterling, Carl, Howard and Chet.