Fred William Ramsey (1963)

RAMSEY, SCHEIFLEY, REMINGTON, WOOD, JICKLING

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 2/19/2013 at 07:32:00

Winterset Madisonian – May 29, 1963
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Fred W. Ramsey Dies in Omaha

Served With Rainbow Division on Western Front During World War I

Fred W. Ramsey, a native of Webster community, died Tuesday, May 28, at Veterans hospital in Omaha. He was 72 years of age.

Mr. Ramsey was a son of the late Dr. and Mrs. A. Ramsey of the Webster community. As a young man he engaged in farming here. With the outbreak of World War I he enlisted in Winterset’s Comp. A, Iowa National Guard, and served through the entire war on the western front in France with the 168th, Infantry regiment of the Rainbow division.

After the war he entered the employ of the Union Pacific railroad in Omaha and Council Bluffs. In 1959, he retired, as a conductor. He and his wife moved to Greenfield, where they had since made their home.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Bernice Ramsey; three daughters, Mrs. Jean Scheifley of Glenview, Ill., Mrs. Harriett Ann Remington of Ralston, Nebr., and Mrs. Patricia Wood of Belmond; eight grandchildren; two brothers, Worth and Lyle Ramsey, both of Madison county; and a sister, Mrs. Glenn Jickling of Winterset.

Funeral services will be held this Friday at 2 p.m. in Greenfield, with burial in the Winterset cemetery with military honors.

Transcriber’s note: Middle name taken from gravestone.

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