RUEHLOW, Leola Olga (Rosel) 1912-2014

RUEHLOW, RUNGE, WILDE, TREICHEL

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 11/25/2014 at 11:54:32

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ST. ANSGAR, IOWA - Leola Olga Ruehlow, 102, of St. Ansgar, died Monday, November 24, 2014, at the Good Samaritan Center, St. Ansgar.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, November 28, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, St. Ansgar, with the Rev. Dr. Byron Northwick officiating. Burial will be in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, St. Ansgar.

Visitation will be from noon to 1:30 p.m. Friday prior to the service at the church. Schroeder and Sites Funeral Home, St. Ansgar, Iowa. 641-713-4920.

www.schroederandsites.com

Source: Mason City Globe Gazette, 25 NOV 2014
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ST. ANSGAR, IOWA - Leola Olga Rosel Ruehlow, 102, of St. Ansgar, died on Monday, November 24, 2014, at the St. Ansgar Good Samaritan Center.

Funeral service will be on Friday, November 28, 2014 at 1:30 p.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church, St. Ansgar, with the Rev. Dr. Byron Northwick officiating.

Burial will be in Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery.

Visitation is scheduled after 12 p.m. at the church on Friday.

Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Leola was descended from Iowa pioneers and farmers who immigrated to America in the 1860s from Pomerania, Prussia, in old Germany. She was born on a North Iowa farmstead in Newburg Township, Mitchell County, on October 28, 1912. Leola was the third daughter in a family of nine children of George H. Rosel and Anna Marie Runge. Her grandparents in her father's line were Friedrich Rosel, son of Leonard Rosel, a Mitchell County pioneer and a founder of Immanuel Lutheran Church in St. Ansgar. Friedrich married Augusta Treichel. Grandparents in her mother's line were Emil Runge Sr. and Wilhelmine (Minnie) Wilde, pioneers and founders of St. John's Lutheran Church of Rock Township, Mitchell County.

Leola was baptized Dec. 8, 1912, and confirmed in the Lutheran faith April 10, 1927, at Immanuel Lutheran Church by the Rev. Paul Brammer. After graduating from St. Ansgar High School in the class of 1930, she entered nurses training at Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines.

Her marriage to Lloyd Ruehlow took place May 31, 1936, at her parents' farm home near Riceville, by the Rev. Paul Brammer. They farmed in Union Township, Mitchell County, on his parents' farm north of St. Ansgar from 1936 until the time of Lloyd's death in 1974. Leola moved to St. Ansgar in 1976.

Leola was a life-long member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, St. Ansgar. She had served as chairman of Ladies' Aid, taught Sunday school and was a member of the church choir. She served her community as a 4-H leader and served on the 4-H County Committee. Leola was talented in music, flower arranging, interior decorating, gardening and most of all she loved working with young people and traveling.

Survivors include her sister, Doris Erdman, sisters-in-law, Marla Rosel and Norma Rosel, brother-in-law, Lloyd Kroneman and many friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lloyd Ruehlow; 4 sisters and 2 brothers.

Memorials may directed to the St. Ansgar Good Samaritan Center or Immanuel Lutheran Church.

Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, St. Ansgar. 641-713-4920. www.schroederandsites.com .

Source: Mason City Globe Gazette.