Ruby Eva (Halfpop) HOYT

HOYT, WILLER, HALFPOP, BOEHNKE, COE, SCHRADER, COPAS, JOHNSON, MYERS, MCNUTT, PRESCOTT, HUBBARD, CHRISTIE, FRANDSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/1/2008 at 13:34:46

Clear Lake Mirror Reporter, IA
August 2, 2005

Ruby E. Hoyt, 92, of rural Garner, Iowa passed away Monday, Aug. 1, 2005 at the Oakwood Care Center, Clear Lake. A funeral service will be held at 1:30 p.m. at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. 4th St., Clear Lake, on Wednesday, Aug. 3, with Richard Scott, Lay Assistant, of Zion Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Concord Cemetery, Garner. Visitation will be from noon until the time of the service at Ward-Van Slyke. Memorials may be given to the Ruby E. Hoyt Memorial Fund.

Ruby Eva Hoyt was born July 4, 1913 in rural Goodell, Hancock County, Iowa to Charles and Amanda (Willer) Halfpop. Ruby graduated from Goodell High School in 1931. She was united in marriage to Emmett D. Hoyt on July 3, 1934 at Britt, Iowa. They had two children. They were members of Zion Lutheran Church. Ruby and Emmett farmed together all of their married life, living on the same farm since 1946. She took an active part in the farming and after retirement in 1978, continued to live on the farm. Even after retirement she would help out with chores, etc. until she was no longer able. They enjoyed spending summers in Minnesota on fishing trips.
Ruby was a quilt maker, making quilts for all of her grandchildren. She also enjoyed knitting and crocheting. One of her quilts won a purple ribbon at the North Iowa Fair. Ruby enjoyed cooking and read cookbooks instead of novels. She was always trying out new recipes. You couldn't enter her kitchen without being fed. She continued to feed the "farmhands" until age 90 when she broke her hip. She loved her family and cherished Christmas when they were all together.

She will be missed by her family and friends: son, Robert and his wife, Pat, Garner; daughter, Dixie Boehnke, Clear Lake; grandchildren, Twyla Coe and her fiancé, David Schrader, Melody Coe, and Suzanne Copas and husband, Tim; great-grandchildren, Joshua Coe, Amanda Johnson and her husband, Troy and children, Alexis, Cade and Coy, Sandra Coe and her children, Brenna and Jackson; Sarah Myers and her husband, Eric and son, Jacob and Krystal Copas; sister, Gladys McNutt of Fargo, N.D.; dear friend and roommate, Eloise Prescott; many nieces and nephews. Ruby was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Emmett in 1995; sisters, Edith Hubbard, Margaret Christie; brother, Paul Halfpop and sister-in-law, Elsie Frandson.