Grube, Adah Ovieda (Void) 1905 – 2002
GRUBE, VOID, HATLEBERG, HENDRICKSON, KRIDER, OLLENDIECK
Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:25
Source: Times Plain Dealer; Mar. 20, 2002 Page A-3
from Elma library collection assembled by Marian (Marr) McGee
Transcribed by Joy MooreServices held for Adah Grube
Funeral services for Adah Grube were held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, March 18 at the United Methodist Church in Cresco with Rev. Lewis Flanigan officiating. Interment was in Oak Lawn Cemetery in Cresco. Lindstrom Funeral Home handled the arrangements.
Adah, 96, died March 15, 2002 at St. Marys Hospital in Rochester, MN after a short illness.
Adah Ovieda Grube was born June 22, 1905 on a farm in Lodi Township in Mower County near LeRoy, MN, the daughter of Ole and Anna (Hatleberg) Void. She attended a rural school and then the LeRoy Public Schools, graduating from high school in 1924. Following graduation she worked at the Mayo Clinic in Medical Records until her marriage.
On September 7, 1931 she married Leo P. Grube at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. They lived in Mason City and Dubuque where her husband was employed as an auditor for DX Petroleum Oil Co. until moving to a farm north of Cresco in 1942 where she lived until 1977. She then moved to another rural homeuntil 1989, when she moved to an apartment in Cresco where she resided until becoming a resident of the Evans Memorial Home in 1995.
In 2000, she and her sister, Olena Hendrickson were enrolled in the Centenarian Sibling Pair Study of the Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA.
Adah was a member of the Cresco United Methodist Church and a 50-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star.
She enjoyed fishing, crocheting, and reading.
She is survived by two daughters: Gaurdis Krider of LeMars and Dulcie Ollendieck of Cresco; five grandchildren; two step grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and five step great-grandchildren.
Adah was preceded in death by her husband in 1973; one son: Gary; one grandson; one step grandson; and five sisters.
Oak Lawn Cemetery
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