Ruth Lucille Mohr, 1924 – 2011

MOHR, NEWKIRK, BROCKSHUS, COLLIER, MOORE

Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 9/2/2011 at 14:13:57

Visitation: 6-8 pm May 20, 2011 at Powell Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Williamsburg

Funeral Service: 10:30 AM May 21, 2011 at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Williamsburg

Interment: May 21, 2011 at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Williamsburg

Celebration of Life service will be held 10:30 am, Saturday, May 21, 2011, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, rural Williamsburg. Rev. Richard Meyer will officiate.

Burial will be in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery. Williamsburg.

[Casket bearers were Tim Collier, Jeff Collier, Mike Collier, Dan Collier, James Moore and Robert Newkirk.]

A memorial fund has been established for Lutheran Interparish School. Messages and tributes may left at www.powellfuneralhomes.com under obituaries.

[Powell Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Williamsburg, was in charge of arrangements.]

Ruth Lucille Mohr, was born October 30, 1924, in Williamsburg, Iowa, daughter of Alfred and Lillie (Brockshus) Newkirk.

Ruth was united in marriage to Virgil O. Mohr on October 2 1943, in Orange County, California. The couple made their home east of Williamsburg where they farmed all of their lives.

Ruth enjoyed playing cards, baking and spending time with friends. She made quilts for the Lutheran World Relief and volunteered at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.

She was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Williamsburg. Ruth died on Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, at the age of 86 years.

She is survived by a daughter Susan Collier and husband Justin of Newton, Iowa and Sandra Moore and husband Robert of Waukee, Iowa; 5 grandchildren; 10 great grandchildren and a brother: Richard Newkirk and wife Ethel of Williamsburg.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband.

Powell Funeral Homes
[The Williamsburg Journal Tribune, 26 May 2011, pg 12]