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Riddle, Sigrid 1919-1992

RIDDLE, CUPPLES, NOELCK, JACOBSEN, FAABORG, ARNVIG

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Date: 6/4/2007 at 20:55:52

Sigrid Riddle

COLFAX - Funeral services for Sigrid Faaborg Riddle, 73, of Colfax, active in numerous peace and environmental organizations, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, December 3, at the Howard Street Christian Church in Colfax.

The Rev. John Mc Kinstry, pastor of the church will conduct services.

Burial will be in Colfax Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Walters-Coburn Funeral Home in Colfax after noon today and family visitation will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Memorials to the Danish Immigration Museum in Elkhorn will be accepted

Mrs. Riddle died Monday at her home in Colfax.

Survivors are three sons, John S. and William P., both of Colfax; and James of Winona, Minn.; two daughters, Carol Ann Riddle Cupples of Nantes, Quebec, Canada; and Linda L. Riddle of Hokah, Minn.; 10 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Also surviving are two sisters, Ingar Marie Noelck of Hampton and Edna Jacobsen of Gig Harbor, Wash.; and two brothers, Einar Faaborg of Seattle, Wash., and Otto Faaborg of Exira.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, John Perry Riddle.

Mrs. Riddle, a resident of Colfax since 1947, was a member of the Howard Street Christian Church, the Jasper County Historical Society, Skunk Valley Peace Organization, Blanford Friendly Circle, Sierra Club and the Danish Immigration Museum at Elkhorn.

Mrs. Riddle taught rural schools in Audubon County and was a member the home service department at the Maytag Co., retiring in 1984.

The daughter of Simon and Astrid Arnvig Faaborg, she was born February 10, 1919 in Kimballton and was a graduate of Audubon Community High School and Grandview College in Des Moines.

She was married to John Perry Riddle January 2, 1943 in Maryland. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, November 1992


 

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