Ruby Ila (Skartvedt) Wildman (1915-2012)

WILDMAN, SKARTVEDT, FINN, ANDRE

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 7/31/2012 at 08:12:59

From Adams & Soderstrum Funeral Home obituary, Story County, Iowa:

Ruby Ila Wildman

BORN: September 8, 1915

DIED: June 21, 2012

LOCATION: West Des Moines, Iowa

The third of four children, Ruby Ila Wildman, was born September 8, 1915 to Rasmus and Ida Skartvedt on the family farm in Radcliffe, Iowa. In the same farmhouse, she married Robert O. Wildman on June 1, 1935.

Ruby attended Ellsworth College in Iowa Falls and taught grade school near Garden City prior to her marriage. Bob and Ruby first lived in Eldora, Iowa where Ruby taught 6th grade at the Iowa Training School for Boys. After the birth of their first daughter, they moved to Ames. Another daughter and a son were born in Ames and Ruby was a homemaker during their childhood. She went to work for Iowa State University in the printing services division in 1955 and was there until she retired in 1982. Ruby was a member of Bethesda Lutheran Church in Ames from 1943 until her death.

Ruby died June 21, 2012 at Fountain West Health Center in Des Moines at 96 years of age.

Survivors include daughters Gretchen Finn of Fort Worth, Texas, and Janet Andre of Santa Fe, New Mexico; her son, John Wildman of Norwalk, Iowa; four grandsons; one granddaughter; three great- granddaughters; and one great grandson.

Ruby was preceded in death by her husband and one grandson.

Memorial contributions may be made to Bethesda Lutheran Church, 1517 Northwestern Avenue, Ames, Iowa 50010.

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