Margaret Marian (Rude) Gerdeman (2010)

GERDEMAN, RUDE, PARKIN, BROMANDER

Posted By: Shirley Keating (email)
Date: 7/3/2010 at 14:18:05

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
June 30, 2010

MARGARET M. GERDEMAN, WINTERSET

Margaret Marian (Rude) Gerdeman, 90, died Saturday, May 29, 2010, at Winterset Care Center North in Winterset, Iowa, where she had resided since 2005. Graveside services will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 11, at the Jordan Township Cemetery, Monona County, Iowa.

Margaret was born May 14, 1920, to Andrew and Zada Rude in Soldier, Iowa. She graduated from Soldier High School in 1936 and attended Iowa State Teachers College, now UNI, where she received her teaching certificate. Margaret taught at Lake Center School in Clay County before marrying Earl Gerdeman. They were married from 1942 until 1978. Earl died in 1994.

She also was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Royce; and her son, Roger. She is survived by her son, Richard, of Custer, S.D.; her daughter, Randall (Jerry) Parkin of rural Earlham, Iowa; her sister, Mary Jane Bromander of Onawa, Iowa; and numerous nephews, nieces, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Brooks Funeral Care, Clive, is handling service arrangements.