Wurth, Wilfred "Doc" 1899-2003

WURTH, ENGLERT, RUDEN

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 6/26/2008 at 20:32:40

REMSEN, Iowa -- Wilfred "Doc" Wurth, 103, of Remsen died Sunday, Nov. 23, 2003, at Floyd Valley Hospital in Le Mars, Iowa.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Remsen, with the Rev. Timothy Johnson officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with a parish rosary at 3 p.m., a vigil prayer service at 7:30 p.m. and a Knights of Columbus rosary at 8 p.m., at Fisch Funeral Home in Remsen.

Doc was born Dec. 23, 1899, in Paducah, Ky., the son of Stephen and Catherine (Englert) Wurth. He was raised and educated in St. John's community of Paducah. He left Paducah in 1921 and worked in Detroit, Mich., for General Motors. He and three of his cousins later worked for farmers in South Dakota until settling in the Remsen area in the late 1920s.

On Jan. 5, 1942, he married Mary Dora Ruden in Remsen. They farmed near Remsen until retiring and moving into Remsen in December 1969. Mary died June 8, 1985.

He was a very humble man with a kind spirit. He enjoyed gardening and donating produce to the convent and the nursing home. He was very happy that he could be in his own home and attend daily Mass until May 1999, when he entered Park Place Estates in Le Mars. He truly enjoyed his Park Place family and had many fond memories of his life there.

He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus and Modern Woodmen of America.

He is survived by a son and his wife, Dan and Peg of Sioux City; four grandchildren, Russell and his wife, Georjeana of Frederick, Colo., Darla and her husband, Jeff Swanson of Cedar Park, Texas, Kevin of Golden, Colo., and Doug of Ames, Iowa; and a great-grandson, Daniel George Wurth of Frederick, Colo.

He also was preceded in death by a daughter, Judy; four brothers, Ernie when a young child, Ivo, Paschal "Shorty" and Dennis; and two sisters, Flora Wurth and Sister Mary Catherine of the order of Sisters of Mercy.

Pallbearers will be Russell, Kevin and Doug Wurth, Jeff Swanson, Rich Ruden and Clarence Willett. Honorary pallbearers will be Anthony and Donald Delperdang, Duane Majeres, Cyril Theisen and Gene and Milton Wurth.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal--part of the D. Easton Obituary Collection