Nuss, Winifred, Mae (Rider) 1906 - 1959

NUSS, RIDER, LLOYD, CLAY, PAPPAS

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The Gazette-Tribune, Thursday, March 5, 1959, Sibley, Iowa, Page 3

WINIFRED NUSS, FORMER MELVIN RESIDENT, DIES

Winifred Mae Nuss, daughter of James E. and Jeanette (Lloyd) Rider was born in Sheldon, Iowa, Nov. 12, 1906. She graduated from Sheldon high school in 1923 and from Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls, in 1925. For the next three years she taught elementary school in Gaza, Iowa.

She was united in marriage to Harold Nuss on June 1, 1928, in Sheldon. They resided on a farm near Melvin for the next 12 years, during which time their children, James, Roger and Carol were born. On March 1, 1940, they moved to the farm they now occupy near Ocheyedan. Mrs. Nuss joined the Methodist Church in Sheldon as a young girl and had her membership transferred in 1940 to the Ocheyedan Methodist Church.

She was preceded in death by her father, James E. Rider in 1928; her sister, Mrs. Chris Pappas; 3 brothers, Lee, John and Paul.

Surviving are her husband, Harold; their 3 children, James of Wapella, Roger of Sioux City, Carol (Mrs. Warren Clay) of Spring View, Nebr.; her mother, Mrs. Jeanette Rider, Ocheyedan; and four brothers, George and Richard of Portland, Oregon; Lloyd of Sparks, Nevada; and Perle of Clinton, Iowa.