Ruth Edyth (Mathews) Comp (1979)

COMP, MATTHEWS

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 9/8/2006 at 21:41:05

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, January 4, 1979
Page 2

MRS. JOE COMP Buried Here

Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Comp, 73, were held Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at Overton Funeral Home in Indianola. Interment was in the Winterset Cemetery.

Mrs. Comp died early last Saturday at her home in Indianola after a long illness.

Before retiring and moving to Indianola in June 1976, she and her husband Joe owned and operated motels in Chariton and Ames. She lived in Winterset for many years prior to 1955, where Mr. Comp managed the Farmers Co-op Elevator.

She was a member of First United Methodist Church, Order of the Eastern Star, and Women's Club.

Surviving is her husband, Joe, and one son, Dr. Joseph L. Comp, of New Harmony, Utah, four grandchildren, and one brother, Melville Matthews, of Grant City, Missouri.
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Record-Herald and Indianola Tribune
Indianola, Iowa
Monday, January 15, 1979

Ruth Comp died after a long illness at her home in Indianola, Dec. 30, 1978, at the age of 73 years, 5 months, and 26 days.

Ruth Edyth Mathews was born to M.R. ad Blanch Hill Mathews July 3, 1905, near Denver, Mo. She attended school in Grant City Mo., before moving in 1920, with her parents to Patterson. She graduated from Patterson High School in 1923, and attended Chillicothe Business College for two years.

in 1925, she moved with her family to Lake Worth, Fla., where she was employed as a bookkeeper for Western Union. She oved back to Grant City, Mo., in 1926.

On June 7, 1927, she was united in marriage to Joe Comp at Ledges State Park near Boone. To this union one son, Joseph L., was born.

She was employed for many years as a bookkeeper for the Farmer Elevator in Winterset, where the family resided. In 1955, they moved to Marcus.

In 1957, they moved to Storm Lake, where she and her husband operated a Dairy Queen Store. Ruth and her husband also operated motels in Ames, and completed a new motel in Chariton, and operated it. They lived in Ankeny briefly until their motel was complete. Ruth and her husband moved to Indianola in June 1967.

She was a member of the Methodist Church, Order of the Eastern Star and Federated Women's Club of Indianola.

She is survived by her husband, Joe, one son, Dr. J.L. Comp of Cedar City, Utah, four grandchildren, and a brother, Melville Mathews of Grant City, Mo.

Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Stanley F. Woeste Tuesday Jan 2, 1979, at Overton Funeral Home in Indianola. Interment was in the Winterset Cemetery.

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