Gaylord Alvin “Gail” Rusk (1967)
LANG, RUSK, WILLIS
Posted By: Eileen Reed
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:24
The Arizona Republic
Phoenix, Arizona
Monday, March 13, 1967
Page 20, Column 3MESA – Gail A. Rusk, 69, former Iowa legislator, died yesterday at 530 S. Alma School Road, where he was a winter visitor.
He was a retired farmer, born in Madison County, Iowa. He was a member of the Newton, lowa, Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce. He also belonged to the Grange and served as an elder in Newton’s Christian Church.
A prayer service for him will be held at 7:30 p.m. today Larry J. Melcher Mortuary, 43 S. Stapley Drive, Final services and burial will be in Newton.
Surviving are his wife, Evelina; six sons, Carl of Phoenix, Dale of Mesa. George of Dallas, and Claude, Forrest and James, all of Newton; a daughter, Mrs. Eugene Lang, Grinnell, Iowa; 23 grandchildren, and a brother and sister out of state.
________________________The Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa
Tuesday, March 14, 1967
Page 8, Column 5Gail A. Rusk, 69, Dies in Arizona
(The Register's Iowa News Service)NEWTON, IA. - Gail A. Rusk, 69, a Newton area farmer, died Sunday at Mesa, Ariz., where he and his wife, Eva, were spending the winter.
Mr. Rusk, a Democrat, served two terms in the Iowa House of Representatives and was a former Jasper County supervisor.
Surviving besides his wife are a daughter, six sons, a brother, Clay Rusk, and a sister, Mrs. Clela Willis, both of Des Moines.
Services will be at 130 p.m. Friday at the Johnson Funeral Home. Burial will be in Wittemberg Cemetery.
________________________The Creston News Advertiser
Creston, Iowa
Tuesday, March 14, 1967
Page 11, Column 6NEWTON (AP) – Funeral services will be held here Friday for former State Rep. Gail Rusk, D-Newton, who died after an apparent heart attack in Mesa, Arizona where he had been vacationing.
Rusk served in the House from 1957-60 representing Jasper County.
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