Ruden, Silvius N 1917-1997

RUDEN, GOETZINGER, HOSS, STAAB, WURTH, ENRIGHT, SPENCER, BOHLING, VON ARB, BUSH, AHLERS, MADSEN, WOLL

Posted By: Janet Schuldt, Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/3/2010 at 11:50:49

Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, USA June 19, 1997 Page 10 A

Oyens, Iowa - Silvius N. Ruden, 79, of Oyens died Tuesday, June 17, 1997, at a Sioux City hospital

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Catherine’s Catholic Church in Oyens with the Rev. Timothy Hogan officiating. Burial will be in St. Catherine’s Cemetery, with military rites conducted by the American Legion. Visitation will be after 3 p.m. today with a scriptural wake service at 7:30 p.m. and a Knights of Columbus rosary at 8 p.m. at the Feuerstein Funeral Home in Le Mars, Iowa.

Mr. Ruden was born June 30, 1917, in Oyens, the son of Joseph M. and Mary (Goetzinger) Ruden. He was raised in the Oyens area and attended St. Catherine’s School. He worked as a farmhand. He service in the U.S. Army during World War II with the 81st Wildcat Division in the South Pacific.

He married Marjorie L. Hoss on April 8, 1944, in San Luis Obispo, California. The couple moved to Kingsley, Iowa and lived there from 1947 to 1952 when they moved to Neptune, Iowa. In 1959, they moved to a farm near Le Mars. He was employed as a truck driver for Kent Feeds until his retirement in 1979. They moved to Oyens in 1984. She died April 10, 1993.

He was a member of St. Catherine’s Catholic church, the Knights of Columbus Trinity Council 1466, and the American Legion Wasmer Post 241.

Survivors include three sons and their wives; Ron and Betty of Ankeny, Iowa, Ken and Susan of Dexter, Iowa, and Jake and Diane of Le Mars.; five daughters and their husbands, Pat and Carl Staab of Remsen, Iowa, Peggy and Dan Wurth of Sioux City, JoEllen and Mike Enright of Hinton, Iowa, Cindy and Bill Spencer of Sioux City, and Marlene and Darwin Bohling of Lee’s Summit, Missouri; 31 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; five brothers, Harold, Joe, and his wife, Bonnie, Eldon and his wife, Mildred, all of Le Mars, Ray and his wife, Lorraine of Struble, Iowa and Tom and his wife Marva of East Alton, Illinois; and five sisters, Mary Ann and her husband Melvin Von Arb of Alton, Iowa, Erma and her husband Lee Bush of Cleghorn, Iowa, Cy and her husband, Robert Ahlers, Florence Madsen and Jeanne and her husband, Larry Woll, all of Le Mars.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a son, Michael in infancy; and a brother, Walter.