Rex Edward Ruch 1903 - 1988

RUCH, RAW

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 4/27/2022 at 23:36:42

Sioux City Journal
29 January 1988

DENISON, Iowa - Rex E. Ruch, 84, of Denison died Tuesday in a hospital in Denison of injuries suffered in a traffic accident in Denison.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in First United Methodist Church in Denison with Dr. Edward R. Peterson officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery at Pierson. Visitation will be after 3 p.m. today in Pfannebecker Funeral Home in Denison.

Mr. Ruch was born Sept. 21, 1903, in Pierson. He graduated from Pierson High School and Iowa State University. He married Marjorie Raw Oct. 5, 1929, in Pierson. The couple made their home in Denison where he was a vocational agriculture instructor and counselor in the Denison School System for 42 years.

In 1935 he received a Master of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin. In 1941 he was appointed an assistant to the state supervisor of vocational agriculture, traveling the entire state. On Oct. 16, 1956, he received an honorary American Farmer Award at the National Future Farmers of America Convention at Kansas City, Mo. He taught at Iowa State University the summer of 1961.

Mr. Ruch was a past president of the Iowa Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association and an active promoter of the Crawford County Fair. He was a member of First United Methodist Church and Sylvan Lodge 507 AF&AM of Denison.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Colene Walden of Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Daniel (Patricia) Miller of Christiana, Pa., and seven grandchildren.