BARTRUFF, Wayne Louis 1926 - 2016

BARTRUFF, DAILY, FRAZIER, LUEDEMAN, TUCK, RHODEHORST

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 12/18/2016 at 13:41:09

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Page 6

Wayne Louis BARTRUFF

Wayne Louis BARTRUFF, 90, formerly of Fairfield, died Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016, at The Groves Community Hospice in Independence, Missouri.

A memorial service was held Dec. 6 at Christ United Methodist Church in Independence, with the Rev. Mike Costanzo presiding.

Memorials can be made to Christ United Methodist Church in Independence or Eustis United Methodist Church in Eustis, Nebraska.

Mr. BARTRUFF was born Jan. 31, 1926, on the famliy farm in Eustis, the son of Louis and Marie BARTRUFF. He married Phyllis DAILY Jan. 1, 1950. She died Nov. 2, 2006. He married Twila FRAZIER LUEDEMAN Nov. 27, 2008, in Independence.

He attended Eustis Public School and graduated from high school in May of 1943.

In his early years, he was a teacher and coach in a one-room rural school, District 43, and in Palisade, Nebraska. He worked in the grocery business in Palisade until he moved to Cambridge, Nebraska. He was pastor of the Overton church while finishing his Bachelor degree at Kearney Teachers College. After completing that degree, he enrolled with the first class of students at St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri, and was a member of its first graduating class in 1962. During those years, he served churches in Lathrop, Turney and Holt, Missouri. Upon graduation, he was appointed to First United Methodist Church in Kearney, Nebraska, and also served as Methodist student pastor at the college.

Over the next 30 years, he served the Iowa conference at churches in Ames, Fairfield, Atlantic, and Fort Madison.

Mr. BARTRUFF retired in 1991 and moved to Bella Vista, Arkansas, where he served as associate pastor at First United Methodist Church.

He was the author of two books of stories and poems, "Well Taught" and "Wonderings of a Wanderer."

He professed that the pleasures and blessings of his life were his two marriages, his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, his parents as well as being called to be a pastor, a parent, a teacher, a servant of God, and a person who enjoyed all the gifts God had graciously given him.

Survivors include: wife, Twila BARTRUFF; sons, Jerry BARTRUFF and wife Carla of North Liberty, Jim BARTRUFF and wife Lindy of Emporia, Kansas, Phil BARTRUFF of Helena, Montana, Mike BARTRUFF and Mindy TUCK of Grand Forks, North Dakota; Larry BARTRUFF and wife Lori of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin; 10 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; one brother, Max BARTRUFF of Eustis; one sister, Mary Lou RHODEHORST of Hampton, Virginia; and the children and grandchildren of Twila.

He was proceeded (sic) in death by: his wife Phyllis; his parents; and one brother, Warren BARTRUFF.

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