Augusta Marie (Badker) RUSS

BADKER, RUSS, GANFIELD, PEARSON, MCMANNUS, MCEACHEM, EDGREN, POLLOCK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/30/2011 at 16:20:16

January 28, 1876 --- March 24, 1961

Mrs. Augusta Russ, 85 years, long time resident of Blue Earth, Minnesota, died at the Blue Earth Community Hospital on Friday at 2:40 P.M. after a long illness. She had been a patient at the hospital since January 12th. Mrs. Russ was born January 28, 1876, in Meservey, Iowa. She attended school there. On January 23, 1895, she was married to Dr. John F. Russ. They made their home in Buffalo Center, Iowa. They came to Blue Earth in 1920. Dr. Russ died August 13, 1930.

Five children survive: Frank C. Russ, Bay City, Wisconsin; Dr. John F. Russ, Jr., Wells, Minnesota; Mrs. G. W. Ganfield, Hastings, Minnesota; Mrs. Carl A. Pearson and Mrs. J. C. McMannus both of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two sisters, Mrs. Adolph Edgren, Lake Bluff, Illinois, and Mrs. Scott Pollock, Garner, Iowa also survive. There are eleven grandchildren.

She was a member of the Eastern Star, the Priscilla club, and the women's group of her church. Funeral services will be at 2 P.M., Monday, from Salem Evangelical United Brethren Church in Blue Earth with Dr. V. E. Hilton officiating. Burial will be in Graceland cemetery, Buffalo Center, Iowa, beside her husband.

Fairmont Sentinel - Fairmont, Minnesota
March 25, 1961

[nee: Augusta Marie (Badker) Russ]