Ralph C. LUDEKE

LUDEKE, VENNEKOLT, HARTZELL, COLLINS, DOMINIC, COULTER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/22/2009 at 11:56:36

Mason City Globe Gazette, Iowa
September 1981

CLEAR LAKE, IA --Funeral services for Ralph C. Ludeke, 90, of rural Clear Lake, who died Wednesday (Sept.23, 1981) at a Mason City nursing home, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Clear Lake United Methodist Church. The Rev. M.A. Kampfe of the Good Sheperd Geriatric Center and Dr. Lyle Leider of the church will officiate. Burial will be in Ell Township Cemetery, Klemme. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today at Hogan-Bremer Colonial Chapel, where a prayer service will be 7:30 tonight. The family requests memorials be made to the Ralph Ludeke Memorial Fund. Mr. Ludeke attended Klemme schools and Charles City Academy, and was graduated from Drake University in 1916. He farmed in the Klemme area and was well known for raising purebred hogs. He lived a short time in Garner, and moved to Clear lake in 1943 where he lived until his retirement. He married Mina Hartzell in 1917 in Britt. Mr. Ludeke had a stroke in 1970, which left him partially paralyzed and confined to a nursing home. He was a member of the Clear Lake United Methodist Church and served as a Sunday School superintendent and teacher. He also served on the church boards and sang in the church choir. He also served on the Klemme School Board. Survivors include his wife, Mina; three daughters, Mrs. Dan (June) Collins, Mason City; Mrs Jack (Doris) Dominic, Clear Lake, and Mrs. Eldon (Marilyn) Coulter, Redfield; one son, Stanley R. Ludeke, Long Prairie, Minn., and 14 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.