Ardith (Cundall) TROUSDALE

TROUSDALE, CUNDALL, PYLE, YEOMAN, OLSEN, CLAPPER, WIARDA, COLLINS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/28/2014 at 20:06:19

May 22, 1922 - December 3, 2013

Ardith Trousdale, age 91, of Alden, died on Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at Scenic Manor in Iowa Falls . Services are 10:30 AM Monday December 9, 2013 at the United Methodist Church in Alden with burial at the Alden Cemetery. Visitation will be 2-4PM Sunday at the Surls Funeral Home in Iowa Falls.

Ardy was born on May 22, 1922 to Earl and Jessie (Pyle) Cundall in Galt, Iowa. She graduated from Dows High School and Ellsworth Community College and attended the University of Northern Iowa. On May 28, 1942 she was united in marriage to Max Trousdale at the Dows Methodist Church. She and Max spent their lives as stewards of the land, leaving the family’s century farm in 1995. Ardy was a 60-year member of the Alden Methodist Church and a lifetime member of UMW; she was a 60-year member of the Alden Legion Auxiliary as well. For more than twenty years she worked as a teacher in the Alden School District. She also taught Sunday school and lead 4-H club. Ardy was a member of Retired Teachers’ Association, Friends of the Library, Red Hat Club, and the Oakland Valley Club. After retiring she and Max enjoyed being winter Texans for over twenty years.

She is survived by her four daughters: Kaye Yeoman of Brainerd, MN; Jill Olsen (Richard) of St. Charles, IL; Ann Clapper (James) of Fargo, ND; and Mara Trousdale of Ankeny, IA: six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two sisters (Ila Wiarda and Verabelle Collins), and one brother (Everett Cundall). Memorials may be given to the Alden United Methodist Church and the Alden Public Library.

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