Ruth Delores Owens 1932 - 2011
OWENS, PORTH, ANDERSON
Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/28/2014 at 13:52:40
Sioux City Journal
11 August 2011UTE, Iowa -- Ruth D. Owens, 78, of Ute, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011, at Elmwood Care Centre in Onawa, Iowa.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. John Lutheran Church in Charter Oak, Iowa, with the Rev. Richard Merrill officiating. Burial will be in St. Clair Cemetery, Ute. Visitation will be after 4 p.m. today, with the family present 5 to 6 p.m. and a prayer service at 5:30 p.m., at Armstrong Funeral Home, 501 South Day Ave., in Ute.
Ruth Delores Owens was born Nov. 8, 1932, in Lohrville, Iowa, the daughter of Ernest Alfred and Martha Antja (Porth) Anderson. She was baptized into the Lutheran faith on Nov. 27, 1932, and confirmed on April 14, 1946, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Rockwell City, Iowa. She graduated from Rockwell City High School and attended St. Luke's School of Nursing in Sioux City and became a registered nurse. She used her nursing education working in various branches of her career including all area nursing homes and Monona County Public Health, touching many lives. She also taught C.N.A. courses and maintained her nursing license until the present with her last renewal in 2009.
On March 6, 1955, she was united in marriage to Gorden Delbert Owens in Rockwell City. They were blessed with five children. The couple farmed in the Soldier, Iowa, area and in 1962, purchased a farm south of Ute. The family moved to that farm in 1964. Gorden passed away on Aug. 1, 1998. Ruth later moved into Ute.
She was a talented organist, often playing at her church and surrounding churches and nursing homes. She was a longtime active member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Ute, volunteering to teach catechism classes, serving as choir director, playing piano for Sunday School, serving as leader of the LYF, and a member of the Ladies Aid. In 2010, she became a member of St. John Lutheran Church in Charter Oak. She was dedicated to the missions in Africa and Russia, regularly donating to these causes and multiple others in the Lutheran religion. With this in mind, in lieu of flowers, the family requests that Ruth's legacy continues with donations to the causes she felt so strong about.
Family was always the single greatest love of Ruth's life. She never missed attending all of her children's and grandchildren's sports, music or any activity in which they were involved. She was extremely proud of every one of them. She also enjoyed watching sports, especially the Chicago Cubs and locally, the Charter Oak-Ute Bobcats. She was an avid crocheter, often making pillows and afghans for family and friends.
She is lovingly remembered by her children, Leila Kuhlmann and her husband, Don of Charter Oak, Paul Owens and his wife, Coleen of Scranton, Iowa, Ramona Pithan and her husband, Jeff of Ute, and Erich Owens of Ute; 14 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; brothers and sisters-in-law, Howard and Delores Uhl of Hampton, Iowa, Harold and Pat Owens of Palmdale, Calif., Robert and LouAnn Owens of Mapleton, Iowa, Raymond and Barb Owens of Columbus, Wis., Mary and Jim Cunningham of Hot Springs Village, Ark., and Dona Owens Colyer of Sioux City; and several nieces and nephews.
Along with her beloved husband, Gorden, Ruth was preceded in death by her parents, Ernest and Martha (Porth) Anderson; a sister, Marlys Retalic; a brother, Donald Porth; a son, Kurt Gustav Owens; and a granddaughter, Stephanie Owens.
Monona Obituaries maintained by Linda Ziemann.
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