Bertha (Ruefly) Dudley (1869-1959)

RUEFLY, DUDLEY, THROCKMORTON, MANN, COYNER, HALLEY, FORREST

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 9/5/2022 at 14:35:52

From Nevada Journal January 11, 1960 (page 3)

Obituary of Former Nevada Resident Is Published Today

The following obituary of a former well known Nevada woman, who had requested that the account of her death with its obituary be sent the Nevada Evening Journal, is being published today.

Bertha Ruefly Dudley

Bertha Buefly Dudley (Sept. 12, 1869-Nov. 22, 1959) was born in Nevada, the first child of Emil and Rosina Ruefly, who had come to the United States from Switzerland a few years before her birth, and passed away in Fairfax, Virginia. She lived the first 34 years of her life in Nevada, graduating from the Nevada High School in 1887, in a class of eight girls and one boy. She taught country school, served as a Deputy County Clerk of Story County, and worked for 12 years in Ringheim's Dry Goods Store in Nevada. She loved Nevada. In the "Story of My Life" which she write when she was 83, she said, "The people of Nevada were mostly young folks who were pioneering in this wonderful state of Iowa with its vast opportunities."

In 1903, she married Reverend Homer Price Dudley, then Methodist minister of Nevada. In 1917, while Reverend Dudley was engaged in work for the Board of Education for the Methodist Church, the family moved to Lake Worth, Florida, where Reverend Dudley died in 1928. Since then, Mrs. Dudley had lived with her only child, Miss Helen R. Dudley of 1134 South Thomas Street, Arlington, Virginia.

Services were held in Arlington, Virginia on Nov. 25, 1959, Dr. Harold M. Dudley, nephew-by-marriage, officiating. Burial was at Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.

In addition to her daughter, Mrs. Dudley is survived by her brother, W. E. Ruefly of Kelso, Wash., two step-sons, Mr. H. E. Dudley and Mr. C. R. Dudley of Des Moines; two step-daughters, Mrs. T. B. Throckmorton of Des Moines and Mrs. G. W. Mann of Orlando, Fla.; a niece, Mrs. R. B. Coyner of Redmond, Ore., daughter of her late sister, Mrs. Bernice Halley Forrest; and by eight step-grandchildren.