Alma PARTRIDGE

PARTRIDGE, TEUFEL, SOHN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/17/2007 at 21:12:07

Mason City Globe Gazette, IA
8 November 2004

Alma Partridge, 96, of 2501 W. State St., Mason City, died Monday (Nov. 8, 2004) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m.Wednesday at the First United Methodist Church Wayside Chapel, 119 S. Georgia Ave. with the Rev. Jim Stiles officiating. Interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour before the service. Memorials may be given to the Scholarship Fund at North Iowa Area Community College.

Alma was born Dec. 18, 1907, in Woolstock, Iowa, the daughter of Frank and Mary Elizabeth (Teufel) Partridge. She graduated from Woolstock High School in 1926, received her teachers training at the State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, her B.A. degree at Drake University and her master’s degree at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana, Ill. After teaching in Woolstock for 10 years, she then taught in Greene, Iowa. Alma moved to Mason City in 1941 where she taught and later served as administrator for the Mason City School District, retiring in 1973. She served her community in many ways, volunteering and actively supporting many charitable organizations. She was a lifetime member of the Methodist Church, a member of the church circle, WSG and the United Methodist Women. She was also a lifetime member of the Iowa State Education Association, an active member of Delta Kappa Gamma, an honorary educational society and a member of the Retired Teachers Association.

Surviving are her many faithful friends for whom she was ever grateful for giving joy and purpose to her life. Alma’s parents and sister, Bernice Sohn, preceded her in death. Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave. in Mason City is in charge of arrangements. Major Erickson Funeral Home & Crematory.